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Costumes may or may not be your thing, but there’s something most of us can toast to this Halloween, and that’s a good drink. Spooky or pumpkin spice, this bewitching season, there may be a special treat for you.
Marlow’s Tavern in Vinings gets into the spooky spirit mid-October with their Boo! Berry Punch, made with a touch of grenadine, blue raspberry vodka, Ketel One Citron vodka and orange soda topped with whipped cream and candy corn if you choose. It will certainly scare your spirits up. For more tamed taste buds, the Autumn Spice Martini delights with Absolut Vanilla, Voyant Chai Cream (a delectable mix of aged-old rum, Dutch cream, black tea, pure vanilla and spices), along with pumpkin pie spice and ground cinnamon.
In town, it’s all about the pumpkin. At Two urban licks, the Spiced Pumpkin Pie Cocktail gets its punch from vanilla vodka added to just plain ole vodka with a sprinkling of pumpkin spice to top it off. ONE. midtown kitchen serves its Pumpkin Pie Martini, made of Modern Spirits Pumpkin Pie Vodka, cream and maple syrup in a graham cracker-rimmed martini glass. And Parish just goes all out with their Pumpkin Spice Brandy Milk Punch, made of Maison Surrenne Cognac, pumpkin puree, simple syrup and half & half, sprinkled with a little pumpkin spice.
Spondivits doesn’t need Halloween to get a little scary with its drinks. Year-round, hair-raising concoctions such as the Demon’s Desire, consisting of de cocoa, crème de banana and Irish cream, Green Slime, made with Malibu rum and melon liqueur, and the Bloody Brain Tumor, made with Peach Schnapps, grenadine and Irish Cream, are a fixture on the drinks menu. If they can’t do the trick, maybe the Extended Jail Sentence (Makers Mark, tequila, Southern Comfort), Lobotomy (Yukon Jack, Bailey’s), or Terminator (Kahlua, Peppermint Schnapps, Sambuca) will.
Ditto for Six Feet Under, unless, of course you are a rare Atlanta native, then celebrating a restaurant across from a cemetery is normal to you. Year-round, the Killer Margarita, consisting of tequila, Patron Citronage and Gran Gala, as well as Oyster Shooters such as the Six Feet Under (a shot of Absolut Peppar, Bloody Mary Mix Six Feet Under-style and a raw oyster) and the Oyster Kamikaze, a little concoction made of Ketel One Citron, splashes of Triple Sec and lime plus a raw oyster, are always on the menu.
At Pappadeux’s, Swamp Thing, made with Jagermeister, Chambord Raspberry Liqueur and melon liqueur, can be a real trick or treat, depending on your mood. In East Atlanta, the Graveyard Tavern is known for its signature Graveyard “Black” Martini, made with black vodka. As the season draws nearer, there will certainly be a few more cocktails of “I Vant To Suck Your Blood” variety. For now, fans of HBO’s True Blood experiment aren’t the only ones in the Halloween spirit, at least not in Atlanta.
