The Japanese Slipper—a simple sour built of equal parts, shaken, served up and garnished with a maraschino cherry—is exactly what a drink born in the ’80s should be: boozy, tart-sweet and unabashedly neon. Though it may have been born in the Dark Ages, on closer inspection, the cocktail’s simple build and reliance on fresh citrus make the Japanese Slipper—much like New York’s Cosmopolitan and London’s Bramble—Melbourne’s primary contribution to the early days of the cocktail revival.
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