Caribeño Cocktail at Smuggler's Cove

John Birdsall

Shiver me timbers.

Number 15: Caribeño Cocktail at Smuggler's Cove

Martin Cate combines an obsession with rum and a fetish for Pirates of the Caribbean paraphernalia. It's hard to tell what rises to headier Baroque excess at Smuggler's Cove: Cate's assemblage of anchors, booty chests, barrels, and ships' rigging, or his cocktail list, as unwieldy as a menu from the Palace Hotel, circa-old school. Yes, you can get drinks stuck with paper parasols and orchids, six-ingredient concoctions that ― after an evening spent buying rounds for your buds ― feel like they cost six figures. But amid the Floriditas and scorpion bowls, there's one drink with the breezy abandon of skinny-dipping a deserted beach: the Caribeño. It's a delicately milky of silver rum, gin, coconut water, and lime. You can get it with either all rum or all gin, but the two-booze mix gets the juniper-resin aroma of the gin in proper balance, the slight shudder of bitterness that keeps things from skewing too tropical-print shirt cliché. And at $8, it's at the low end of pricing here, which means you can afford to have a couple.

Smuggler's Cove 650 Gough (at McAllister), 869-1900

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