West End Elixir Company

Today marks ten years since The West End Elixir Company morphed into a bar. Here’s to another decade of cocktailing. Cheers 🥂

21 of our 100 classics is: The Godfather. It’s named after the 1972 film, The Godfather and features blended Scotch whiskey, amaretto and orange bitters.

The 17th cocktail of our 100 classics is: The Whiskey Smash. Earliest mentions of the Whiskey Smash are from the 1840s though it was published with its official recipe in 1862.

Bourbon, sugar, mint, lemon juice.

Number 15 of 100 classic cocktails is: The Paper Plane. Originally created in 2008 by Sam Ross, at the bar Violet Hour in Chicago, it’s named after the M.I.A. song “Paper Planes”.

Bourbon, Aperol, Amaro, and Lemon Juice.