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Tip Your Bartender: LUCA, Lancaster, PA

May 07, 2020

Story: Punch Staff

art: Nick Hensley

Luca’s Pompeii elevates the Margarita template with two types of amaro for a juicy, smoky and bittersweet cocktail.

Tip Your Bartender is a social media initiative from PUNCH connecting our readers with bar teams across the country via Instagram. We’re asking select bartenders to share their drinks (albeit virtually) and encourage the PUNCH audience to “tip” during the economically uncertain times ahead. 

Between March 30th and May 29th, for every dollar tipped to bar teams, the Bacardi family of brands has generously committed to matching it with an equal gift to our charitable partner, Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation.

Send a tip to the LUCA bar staff via Venmo by searching @Dan-Zeiders.

Pompeii

Daniel Zeiders, LUCA | Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Luca’s Pompeii elevates the Margarita template with a split base of tequila and mezcal, and two types of amaro (Cardamaro and Sfumato) for a juicy, smoky and bittersweet cocktail.

1 ¼ ounces Cazadores Bianco tequila
¼ ounce mezcal
1 ounce grapefruit juice
½ ounce simple syrup (1:1)
½ ounce Cardamaro
¼ ounce Sfumato

Garnish: grapefruit wedge (discarded), lava salt

Prepare a rocks glass by rimming the edge with a grapefruit wedge and rolling the exterior on a plate of lava salt until desired level of garnish is achieved. Add ice to your prepared glass and gently pour the Sfumato over the ice.

Add the remaining ingredients to a cocktail shaker. Add ice to the shaker, and shake until chilled. Strain into the rocks glass, where the cocktail will create a layered effect with the layer of Sfumato sitting on the bottom.

Order ingredients for this cocktail for delivery via Drizly.

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