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

Milano '36
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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	Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer

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Prepare:

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

How to make:

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.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

White amaretto (almond milk) liqueur - Nuts

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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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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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.

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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

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Simon Sedgley

28th June at 11:18

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

28th June at 02:26

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

Mike Gibb

27th June at 12:52

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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