This recipe is featured in Brittany Chardin’s story, “Bitters Suite” featured in the spring 2010 issue of in the Mix Magazine.

My take on the Casino Cocktail – one of my favorites and a great cocktail to turn non-gin drinkers on to gin. Who knew I liked gin!

- Tony Abou-Ganim

Ingredients:

1½ oz Bombay Sapphire Gin

½ oz Luxardo maraschino liqueur

1½ oz fresh lemon sour (2 parts fresh lemon juice, 1 part simple syrup)

2-3 dashes of orange bitters

3 Luxardo brandied cherries

Directions:

In a mixing glass of a Boston shaker, add gin, maraschino liqueur, fresh lemon sour, and orange bitters; shake with ice until well chilled. Strain into a chilled cocktail coupe; garnish with 3 brandied cherries and a splash of the brandied cherry juice.