While we awaited the three-course fare provided by Chef Akeeli Dixon and his team, Thursday Life checked in with Kaluga Kafe Chief Mixologist JohnPierre Genas for a taste of Kaluga Kafe’s “most talked about” cocktails, and their recipes.

Kaluga Surprise

Ingredients

1 oz Lilyfield Peach Schnapps

1 ½ oz Orange Juice

1 oz Smirnoff Electric BerryVodka

Method

Add ice to the glass. Pour ingredients in this order: peach schnapps, orange juice, vodka.

Garnish with a pineapple slice and maraschino cherry.

Brown Gal

Ingredients

1 oz Sangster’s Rum Cream

1 oz Island Oasis IceCream mix

½ oz White Rum

2 squirts of Hershey’s

Chocolate syrup

Method

Shake all the ingredients hard and fast in a shaker. Pour mixture into a blender and blend, adding a scoop of ice to thicken. While ingredients combine, garnish glass with chocolate syrup. Pour the liquid into a glass. Add whipped cream, followed by a cherry on

top.

Guinness Punch

Ingredients

2 oz Guinness stout

2 oz IslandOasis ice cream mix

2 oz clear syrup

A shot of White Rum

Method

Add a scoop of ice to the blender. Add clear syrup, and then blend. Add a shot of White Rum to a glass. Add the blended liquid to the mix, top it off with whipped cream, then garnish with maraschino cherry.