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Beverages

Beverages include bright refreshers, hot drinks, smoothies, cocktails, and alcohol-free options where balance and garnish matter as much as the base.

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Bavaroise

Chef Juliette

Bavaroise

Bavaroise turns the ribbon stage into a drink: yolks and sugar, boiling tea and milk, and Kirsch whisked into a light crown of foam. Keep the whisk moving, and the café comes home.

Bischoff

Chef Juliette

Bischoff

Bischoff turns Champagne, tilleul, citrus, and brandy into pale-gold granité, coarse enough to sparkle under the spoon. The scraping makes the texture, and the timer becomes your smallest member of the brigade.

Iced Coffee

Chef Juliette

Iced Coffee

Café glacé is coffee taught by texture: dark, sweet, vanilla-softened, and churned only until it moves like loose snow. Stop before ice cream, pour into cold cups, and take it outside.

Lemonade

Chef Juliette

Lemonade

Zest brings perfume, juice brings acid, and three cool hours join them: a clear, lively French limonade finished with seltzer for the picnic table in the shade.

Pineapple Water

Chef Juliette

Pineapple Water

Eau d’Ananas captures pineapple by infusion, not crushing: boiling syrup draws out its perfume, fine straining keeps the drink clear, and cold seltzer with Kirsch lets it finish feather-light.

Cherry Water

Chef Juliette

Cherry Water

Ripe cherries pressed through a sieve, rested for a measured noyau perfume, then clarified, sweetened, chilled, and finished with kirsch: a ruby refresher whose delicacy depends on patient straining.

Raspberry-flavoured, Red-currant Water

Chef Juliette

Raspberry-flavoured, Red-currant Water

Eau de groseilles framboisée keeps red and white currants bright, lets ripe raspberry supply the perfume, and dissolves sugar without heat: a cold ruby refresher made with sieve, spoon, and patience.

Melonade

Chef Juliette

Melonade

Melonade captures ripe melon in hot syrup, then wakes it with cold seltzer and a last breath of orange-flower water, a make-ahead refresher whose finest perfume arrives only at the table.

Kaltschale

Chef Juliette

Kaltschale

Cold fruit, cinnamon-scented white wine, and Champagne meet in one glistening bowl. Chill every element hard, add the bubbles last, and Kaltschale arrives bright, fragrant, and alive.

Orangeade

Chef Juliette

Orangeade

Orangeade draws perfume from zest, sweetness from a light syrup, and backbone from half a lemon: a cold French picnic pitcher, fragrant and brisk, with thin orange slices in every glass.

Punch with Kirsch

Chef Juliette

Punch with Kirsch

Punch au kirsch is clear amber, cherry-scented and celebratory, with strong tea holding dry eau-de-vie in balance. Dissolve the sugar first, then the bowl is ready for its brief blue flame.

Punch with Rum

Chef Juliette

Punch with Rum

Strong black tea, loaf sugar, lemon, and rum meet the flame in Punch au Rhum, a generous holiday bowl whose governing rule is simple: let the blue flame finish its own work.

Punch Marquise

Chef Juliette

Punch Marquise

Sweet Sauternes, sugar, and clove-pinned lemon zest meet the flame in Punch Marquise, a holiday bowl governed by one sign: stop heating the instant thin white froth covers the wine.

Iced Punch

Chef Juliette

Iced Punch

Tea, citrus, wine, and rum become a crystalline Punch Glacé à la Marquise, flamed while hot, corrected to 15° on the syrup scale, then scraped into bright, loose granité.

Hot Wine

Chef Juliette

Hot Wine

Vin chaud teaches the discipline of gentle heat: red wine and loaf sugar perfumed with orange, cinnamon, mace, and clove, stopped at the first fine froth so the wine stays full.

Hot Wine with Orange

Chef Juliette

Hot Wine with Orange

Vin chaud à l’orange turns Burgundy, sugar, and orange zest into a garnet winter cup. Fifteen minutes of infusion gives perfume without bitterness, then gentle heat keeps the wine generous and bright.

Wine à la Française

Chef Juliette

Wine à la Française

Vin à la Française turns a bottle of Bordeaux or red Burgundy into a generous wine cup, sweetened boldly and brightened with lemon, provided every bitter pip is removed before the slices meet the wine.

Claret Cup

Chef Juliette

Claret Cup

Coupe au Claret turns Bordeaux wine, citrus, cucumber, bitters, and three measured spirits into a cool garnet cup. Infuse it covered, then strain before the ice so every glass stays vivid.

A Proper Hot Toddy

Chef Thomas

A Proper Hot Toddy

A winter glass of whisky, honey, and lemon, stirred together in a warm mug and carried up to bed when the cough won't leave and the evening has asked you politely to stop.

A Proper Wassail Bowl

Chef Thomas

A Proper Wassail Bowl

Hot spiced ale with roasted apples bobbing on the surface, honeyed and fragrant with cinnamon and orange peel, the oldest winter drink in the British kitchen and still the best.

Açaí Berry Bowl

Chef Dean

Açaí Berry Bowl

Brazil's beloved açaí transformed into a thick, spoonable bowl of deep purple goodness, crowned with crunchy granola, fresh fruit, and golden honey. Breakfast that feels like dessert but nourishes like a meal.

Advocaat (Dutch Egg Liqueur)

Chef Joost

Advocaat (Dutch Egg Liqueur)

Advocaat is the Dutch liqueur you eat with a spoon: brandewijn, yolks and sugar turned into a glossy Easter glass, with a hat of slagroom and no apology.

Affogato al Caffè

Chef Graziella

Affogato al Caffè

Three ingredients, no cooking, pure theater. The espresso must be fresh, the gelato must be cold, and the moment of pouring must happen at the table where everyone can watch.

Agua de Alfalfa

Chef Lupita

Agua de Alfalfa

Ciudad de México's highland market agua fresca, fresh alfalfa blended with pineapple and lime until bright green, strained clean, and poured cold from the vitrolero.

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