Cocktail recipe

Cable Car

A shaken cocktail featuring Dark Rum, Cointreau, Lemon juice.

Cable Car cocktail

Ingredients

  • 45 ml Dark Rum
  • 22.5 ml Cointreau
  • 30 ml Lemon Juice
  • 15 ml Simple Syrup

Method

  1. Moisten the rim of a coupe with citrus, then dip it in cinnamon sugar. Set the glass aside.
  2. Add Dark Rum, Cointreau, Lemon Juice and Simple Syrup to a shaker.
  3. Add ice and shake until cold.
  4. Strain into a chilled coupe.

Story

Tony Abou-Ganim created it in 1996 at the Starlight Room in San Francisco, a spiced-rum Sidecar named after the cable cars passing below.