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Milano '36

Name: Milano '36
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Orange-red aperitivo; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Almond milk amaretto; 5 ml Sambuca; 6 dash Cocktail foamer

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Ingredients
2 fl oz	Bittersweet orange-red aperitivo
³⁄₄ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Adriatico Bianco Amaretto Liqueur
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Sambuca
6 dash	3 dash Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer

How to make

Glass

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Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain back into shaker.
DRY SHAKE (without ice) to emulsify.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Milano '36 contains 179 calories

Alcohol content:

0.6 standard drinks
7.67% alc./vol. (15.35° proof)
8.6 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

White amaretto (almond milk) liqueur — Nuts

History

Adapted from a recipe created in Spring 2026 by Damiano Coren, Director of Cocktail Programming at Sant Ambroeus restaurant group, this signature cocktail is the best seller at their locations in Milan, Paris, New York, Miami and others. Created to celebrate Sant Ambroeus' 90th anniversary, this cocktail pays tribute to the group's first restaurant which opened in Milan in 1936.

More cocktails by Damiano Coren

Review

Relatively low in alcohol, this bittersweet aperitivo has attractive almond notes. The sambuca adds well-integrated depth of flavour, rather than being a standout ingredient.

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Comments & Discussion

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Simon Sedgley Premium Member 12w

With the volume of Aperitivo here we didn't have high hopes, expecting excessive sweetness. But we were very pleasantly surprised. We found it restrained, elegant and yet delicious. We haven't had a bottle of Sambuca to hand since our late teens, when it was all the rage along with its cousin Ouzo. So, speculatively, we substituted Galliano L'Autentico and a dash of Absinthe.

Andre Derailleur Premium Member 12w

So it is Milano because the restaurant is Milanese, but the main ingredient (Aperol) comes from Padua near Venice.

Mike Gibb Premium Member 12w

I was a bit thrown by the phrase "90th anniversary of Sant Ambroeus" until I realised this was the restaurant group, and not the eponymous Saint Ambrose (~339-397), the patron saint of Milan.

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