Laura Zastrow
You do want one, after all.
It’s obvious Graze, 1. S. Pinckney St., is having some fun with its new seasonal cocktail menu. For this round, each bartender got to create and name a cocktail after a favorite song. So the menu is full of drinks like the China Girl, Let’s Go Grazy and Hard Day’s Night. I opted for the I Don’t Want No Shrubs, a riff on the TLC song “No Scrubs.”
The shrub is a drink based on a sweetened vinegar-based syrup; they were first popular in the 17th and 18th centuries in English public houses. Shrubs, both alcoholic and not, have been regaining popularity in the U.S. since around 2011.
I Don’t Want No Shrubs is a concoction of Twisted Path dark rum, ginger-honey syrup, grapefruit shrub, Bittercube Jamaican #2 bitters, lime juice and soda water. It’s served over ice in a highball glass with an orange twist. When I had it on a humid, early summer night right before a wild storm, it was a tall glass of cool refreshment; a bright and spicy drink to ring in summer. Get there before July 11, when a new menu is set to debut.
