🍑New Menu November!!!🍑
The party continues this Fall with exciting events, drinks, and more!
Save the Date: Tuesday, November 5th we will launch Abricot Volume 5!
While it’s been a momentous task to say goodbye to some of our summer favorites, Fall is HERE and we are ready to celebrate it with a host of exciting new flavors.
Tuesday, all night long, we will be offering 10% off all cocktails and bites so you can try as many as your heart desires! We will be cranking the tunes, passing around small tastes of everything, and more! The goal? For you to walk out knowing exactly what your new favorite cocktail on the menu is!
Not free Tuesday night?
Not a problem.
Saturday, November 9th will be a show-stopping blow-out launch party! No discounts, but ALL. THE. VIBES. ✨🪩 ⚡️The party will continue with small tasters of everything passed around for your tasting pleasure. We’ve got so much new stuff to share, we just cannot WAIT for you to stop by.🔥🔥🔥
Owner Jennifer Crain speaks to some of the process of how this new menu came together…
A new menu is a labor of love. The process for Abricot of creating a new menu has changed and evolved since the early days, but this part of it remains the same.
It began with Izzy’s delivery cocktails, 2 new cocktails dropping a week, and evolved and refined over the 4 previous editions of the Abricot menu.
This menu has been by far the most collaborative, and, I think, our best yet. It contains throwbacks to the past that launched us — with a couple reworked and refined Izzy’s favorites like the Scarborough Fair. It brings back a few of our signatures that no one wanted to lose, like the Scheherazade, The Tess, and the Hot Bitch (our all-time best-seller ;)) It also contains brand new elevated cocktails and flavors and techniques: cocktails designed by myself, our bar manager Davide, and in collaboration with Ramsey Musk, LA bartender extraordinaire from @mamasboy (Mama’s boy may even be paying us a visit, stay tuned!)
The menu design has changed too. This is the moment where we get to play, and we’ve embraced it. :)
The thing that strikes me though is that the tenets of who we are stay the same. Quality matters. Making it ourselves matters. Supporting women-owned businesses matters. Trying and refining until we have something we’re really proud of matters. Service matters. We want you to feel chez vous when you’re here, and that intention hasn’t changed since our ouverture.
Above all, we keep trying to evolve to bring joy to our neighborhood & community of cocktail lovers. We hope that we have succeeded and that this new menu exceeds your expectations.
🍁Upcoming Events🍁
Besides our MENU LAUNCH on November 5th, we’ve got some great things happening this month:
🍂 Idle Hands Craft Night Tuesday, November 19th | 19h - 22h
Our favorite crafting event returns this month to Abricot with hosts Hannah Steinkopf-Frank & Moriah Costa. Bring your current autumnal project to craft with a cocktail in your hand!
🍁 Erotic French with Clare de Lune Thursday, November 21st | 19h30–22h30
Our exquisite sexpert is back for another night of dirty talk en français at Abricot! It’s a great experience for those new to the French language, couples with language barriers, and francophones alike.
🍃 Nouveau Beaujolais at Abricot Thursday, November 21st
Come for a tasting selection of the 2024 NoBeau season! This autumnal red wine is a French tradition we’re so excited to celebrate at Abricot for the second time this Fall.
🍁 Thanksgiving Celebration Thursday, November 28th
Join us on the American holiday to celebrate the giving spirit with friends and family chez Abricot! We will be serving pumpkin pie by the slice, have a ‘giving wall’ to post what you’re grateful for this season, and themed decorations.
Happy to announce some of our favorites will be staying.
Tom Kha-cktail 🍃 A pisco sour with our fave Thai flavors: creamy coconut, lemongrass, galangal, lime leaf, and bird’s eye chili.
Hot Bitch 🔥 The definitive spicy margarita, with blanco tequila, Cointreau, lime, jalapeño, and Tajin.
Carmen Miranda 🍍 She’s funky, she’s fizzy! Smoky mezcal meets pineapple tepache, fermented with jalapeño, sage, and spices.
When it comes to making choices like this, it’s hard not to get a pang of guilt at all the creations we’ll be saying bye-bye to. Cocktails like the Fragolina di Bosco were the perfect savory strawberry treat for cocktail nerds and the Jardin d’Eden was a simple yet beautiful non-alcoholic option for all our fruit-forward friends, but we’re just ✨so excited✨ about all the new nerdy, flirty, boozy, and not-boozy new things coming!!!
We’re also all about the seasons, so preserving a menu that honors what is at our disposal to provide the freshest, ripest, and most honest ingredients is paramount in our menu and its ethos.🍸
Some oldies are making a comeback!
The Tess 🍒 The dirty shirley of your dreams! With vodka, Aquavit, and housemade grenadine syrup, topped with orange blossom essence and Maraschino cherries for an extra treat.🍒
Scheherazade 🍋 Our fabled twist on a gin gimlet with preserved lemons, za’atar, and tahini-washed gin.
The PB&J 🥃 Peanut-washed bourbon old fashioned for the child in us all! Served with its own bite-sized peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
The only way to truly get a sense of our new menu is to stop by and try a delicious concoction for yourself! Our new menu is a labor of love, bridging the old, the new, and the formidable to bring our peeps the perfect Volume 5!
Some BTS of our photoshoot for Volume Five…
Keep an eye out for some exciting new team photos and drink content from our lovely shoot this past weekend with photographer Audrey Carpentras.
After all the hard work that goes in on the back end with intense hours of procuring, prep, testing, and tasting, the reward of putting it all on display not only for the camera but for us all together is a real treat!
Taking farm to table to the next level…
Jennifer and Caroline trekked outside the city this past week to Ferme de Gally, a local farm where Parisiens and paysans alike come to pick their own fruits and veggies straight from the vine! In our case, this meant picking out a gorgeous selection of pumpkins for our Pumpkin Carving event at Abricot, as well as a supply of jubilee and sapora apples for our ‘Apple of My Eye’ Apple Old-Fashioned!
Running a business in a big city can present a variety of challenges when it comes to assuring quality sourcing of produce, making adventures like these an important reminder that fresh is always best! The apples were crisp, delicious, and perfectly ripe. The pumpkins were all gorgeous, round, and vibrant shades of orange– it connects and inspires the Abricot team to maintain our local roots!
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Well, that’s all for now! Please stay tuned for exciting holiday updates and follow us on our socials below.
Love,
Abricot🧡