Name: Toreador del Diablo
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Blanco tequila; 10 ml Apricot liqueur; 10 ml Red bitter liqueur; 10 ml Homemade ginger syrup; 20 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Honey and water syrup

Toreador del Diablo
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₃ oz	Patrón Silver blanco tequila
¹⁄₃ oz	Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur
¹⁄₃ oz	Strucchi Red Bitter (Campari-style liqueur)
¹⁄₃ oz	Ginger syrup (equal parts ginger juice to caster sugar by weight
²⁄₃ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ oz	Honey syrup (3 parts honey to 1 water by weight)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist and skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Express lemon zest twist over the cocktail and discard.
Garnish with skewered maraschino cherry.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

A Toreador meets a Milk & Honey El Diablo with crème de cassis swapped out for red bitter liqueur. Two already good drinks merged to become a brilliant spicy and bittersweet cocktail.

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History:

We discovered the Toreador Del Diablo in February 2025 at the brilliant Satan's Whiskers in London, England. This delicious cocktail was created circa 2011 by José Manuel Alvarez Gonzalez at Milk & Honey in London. England. Daniel Waddy was a colleague of Manuel's at Milk & Honey and brought the cocktail to Satan's Whiskers.

Nutrition:

One serving of Toreador del Diablo contains 172 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
16.64% alc./vol. (16.64° proof)
15.8 grams of pure alcohol

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Henry Tran

9th May at 16:21

Interesting drink. For me, it's a good drink. But I can't taste any apricot. I can only taste tequila and campari (which is quite similar to how mezcal taste, for some reason)

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