ARAK SERVING SUGGESTIONS
TRADITIONAL
• Water
• Ice
Pour Arak into Arak glass.
Add water slowly until it turns white.
Add ice cubes.
COCKTAILS
Saz-Arak
Zahav Restaurant, Philadephia
• Arak
• 2 oz Basil Hayden bourbon
• 1 oz St. Germain
• 1/2 oz of lemon juice
• 1 dash of orange bitters
• Orange twist
Rinse a rocks glass with Arak.
In shaker with ice, add the bourbon, St. Germain, lemon juice, and orange bitters.
Shake, strain in the rocks glass, and garnish with an orange twist.
Habayit Cocktail
The Dining Hall, Philadephia
• 4 large pieces grapefruit
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 2 sage leaves, plus more for garnish
• Arak
• 45 milliliters sour mix
Muddle the grapefruit, sugar, and sage leaves.
Fill a shaker with ice and add a dose of Arak, 45 milliliters of the muddled grapefruit mixture, and the sour mix.
Shake and strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with a sage leaf, if you like.
Arab Spring
Dos Gatos
Jacksonville, FL (Guerin Smith, bartender)
- 1.5 oz Arak
- Fresh Mint
- 3 or 4 Raspberries
- Spoon of fig preserve
- Vanilla simple syrup
- Pomegranate syrup
- 0.5 oz Solerno Blood Orange Liqueur
Oriental Nights
• 1 measure of Arak
• 2 measures of crème de cassis
• Zest of orange
Tonic to taste to complete
Arak n Honey
The Volstead, Jacksonville, FL
- 1/2 oz Arak Ramallah
- 1/2 oz Drambuie
- 1/2 oz Barenjager Honey Liquor
- Blood Orange bitters
- 1/2 oz water
Garnish with Orange peel
Jerusalem Cocktail
Chamomile Simple Syrup
• 1 part sugar
• 2 parts water
Dried chamomile flowers or a bag of chamomille tea
Arak Grapefruit Concoction
• Juice of one big juicy pink grapefruit
• Arak
• A few sprigs of mint
• Seltzer
Quickly simmer the syrup with the chamomille leaves, strain and leave to cool.
Juice the grapefruit.
For every serving blend: two muddled mint leaves, a twelfth chamomille syrup, a third Arak, 4 parts fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice, 2 parts (more or less) seltzer. Garnish with a few mint leaves.
Arak Cup
Dos Gatos, Jacksonville, Fl (Cody Mashni, bartender)
• 1.5 oz. Arak
• 1/2 oz. pimms
• 1 lemon
• 5-10 mint leaves
• Simple syrup
• Soda
Muddle mint leaves. Add juice of one lemon, Arak, pimms and simple syrup to taste.
Shake and strain over ice in a Collins glass, adding soda intermittently.
Garnish with mint leaf.
Ramallah Sunrise
Dos Gatos, Jacksonville, Fl (Cody Mashni, bartender)
• 1.5 oz. Arak
• .25 oz. St. Germaine
• 4 oz. Grapefruit juice
• Soda
Combine Arak, St. Germaine, and grapefruit.
Shake and strain over ice in a Collins glass. Splash of soda to fill.
Garnish with twist of lemon peel.
Arak Azure
• 11/5 oz. Arak
• 1/2 oz. blue curacao
• Splash rose water
Stir and Strain into a martini long orange twist
Copenhagen Special
• 1 oz. cl Arak
• 1 oz. Aquavit
• 1/2 oz. Lemon Juice
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice.
Shake and strain into a flute glass.
Garnish with a lemon slice.
Serve.
Araktini
• 2 tbsp freshly squeezed
• Meyer lemon
• 4 tbsp freshly squeezed clementine juice
• 3 tbsp Arak
• 4 tbsp room temperature water
• 11⁄2 tsp sugar
• 2 tbsp pomegranate seeds
• Zest of half a Meyer lemon
• Ice
In a cocktail shaker, combine water and sugar and shake well until dissolved.
Add lemon and clementine juices, Arak and ice and shake well.
Pour into a martini glass, add pomegranate seeds and lemon zest.
The Beirut
• 2 parts fresh pomegranate juice
• 1 part Arak
• 1/2 part simple syrup
• 1/2 part club soda<
Mix Arak, syrup and soda.
Pour into a cocktail glass and add pomegranate juice.
The Jack Ker-Arak
Dos Gatos, Jacksonville, Fl (Cody Mashni, bartender)
• 1/2 oz. Arak
• 2.5 oz. Buffalo trace Bourbon
• 1/4 orange
• 6 pomegranate seeds
• Orange bitters
• Simple syrup
Muddle pomegranate seeds and orange.
Add Arak and Bourbon, dash of bitters, and simple to taste.
Shake and strain over big ice cube in a rocks glass.
Garnish with orange peel.
Cool Cucumber
The Volstead, Jacksonville, FL
- 2 muddled cucumber slices
- 2 muddled lime slices
- 1/2 oz brown sugar simple syrup
- 3/4 oz Arak Ramallah
Greek Fire
Orsay, Jacksonville, FL (Alex Smith, Spirits Director)
- 1oz Arak Ramallah
- 1oz Tanqueray Rangpur Gin
- 1oz Ancho Reyes
- lime
- 2 dashes orange flower water
Shake