The Fiona
Ingredients (1 serving)
50 ml Viljamovka
30 ml Lemon juice
20 ml Peach liquor
20 ml Simple syrup
20 ml Mandarin juice
Glass: Coupette
Garnish: Dehydrated mandarin
Directions: Combine all the ingredients into a shaker and shake well for 15 seconds. Double strain into a coupette and add the garnish on top.
Why do we love it? Because this cocktail has a heart-warming story; it celebrates love. Covid-19 pandemics affected many aspects of our lives. Many people were separated from their families, friends, and partners, and it became very difficult to commute between countries. This was also the case with Fiona, from the United States, and Romain from France. A couple that spent 8 months apart due to pandemics. What once seemed to be only the lines in the atlas, now became these borders that seemed so big and almost impossible to cross. However, this couple found their way. Croatia was the only country where both of them could be at the same time. So, here they were, after months of FaceTime, they found their way back to each other and Split. After spending their days discovering all the hidden gems of Split, they came across our bar. And they loved it. They kept coming back and just on one random Tuesday evening, they told their story to one of our bartenders. It wasn’t long after that until all of us knew the story and met Fiona & Romain. So we decided to name this cocktail after Fiona; the woman who inspired us to celebrate love.