Name: Pink Palace
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 15 ml Grand Marnier; 10 ml Lime juice; 5 ml Grenadine syrup

Pink Palace
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ oz	Grand Marnier or other cognac orange liqueur
¹⁄₃ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ oz	Monin Grenadine Syrup

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

This drink's sweet-sour balance and degree of pink hue is relative to how generous you are with the grenadine.

(When made with homemade fresh pomegranate syrup in place of grenadine, and you hit the perfect balance, this drink is delicious but sadly lacks the eponymous pink hue with the result being more golden-amber.)

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History:

The signature drink at the Polo Lounge, Beverly Hills Hotel, Los Angeles, USA. The hotel, which is lovingly termed the Pink Palace inspired The Eagles' Hotel California and graces the album cover.

Nutrition:

One serving of Pink Palace contains 152 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
24.07% alc./vol. (24.07° proof)
18 grams of pure alcohol

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Tuber Magnatum

12th April at 22:34

So tried this again tonight and as my original comment used a smaller Nick and Nora glass rather than coupe which better matched the volume. It may be our "local" (i.e. supermarket) limes are overly sour, but I also increased the grenadine to 7.5 ml which again for me better balanced the sour. Your limes may differ! Regardless, it is an excellent cocktail.

Beverly Stanton

7th December 2024 at 22:59

Only had Gran Gala, was very happy with this cocktail. Would recommend ,sweet yet not overpowering. Will need to try with Grand Marnier. The more I sip the more I like.

Tuber Magnatum

12th March 2024 at 23:37

Lovely drink and indeed a pretty colour! My only comment is that the first time I prepared this drink (shaken with dry ice, not wet), I served it as suggested in a coupe (6oz). At the time I thought the volume would better suit a Nick and Nora glass (5 oz) so this time that's what I used which I believe is a better match for the volume.

Chris Dimal

22nd January 2024 at 07:04

Definitely concur with the review, especially the part in the parentheses, as the grenadine I made this time was with pomegranate molasses added to it, sadly muddying the colour too. Nonetheless, I do feel that my previous grenadine without the molasses will still be almost as good with a nicer colour.

Tuber Magnatum

12th March 2024 at 23:49

Interesting as I used home made syrup with pomegranate syrup / molasses (Jeffrey Morgenthaler recipe) and still had a very nice pink colour. I used fresh squeezed pomegranate so I don't know if that made a difference.

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Lindsey Wilson

29th December 2023 at 15:55

Love the colour and sweet/sour balance. It was slightly strong so I added 50ml tonic which went very nicely with it.

Miguel Perales

2nd August 2022 at 21:07

A nicely balanced drink. I agree that this leans towards the sour side but not by much (used homemade Grenadine syrup)
P.S Loving the changes to the website (Aug/2/22). Much easier to navigate. Great job!

Simon Difford

3rd August 2022 at 06:54

Thanks, Miguel. It's great to see much-anticipated changes finally live - now we have a lot of tweaking to do, plus we still have much new functionality to roll out. Exciting!

John Hinojos

10th March 2022 at 01:28

What an interesting cocktail. Has the great herbal notes from the gin along with the fruit flavours. Cocktail is nicely balanced and very easy to drink. Sugar level is spot on as we like our cocktails on the sour side. Very colourful.

Anonymous

11th September 2021 at 16:26

A very drinkable accessible balance of flavours with a hint of depth from the grand marnier, and a very subtle balance of sharp and sweet from the lime juice and grenadine. A delicate pink colour makes this an accessible favourite of favourites for me.

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