Category Archives: Recetas Ideal

Ideal Cocktail Bar in Cuina magazine

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In the last issue of Cuina magazine Ideal has a little reportage about the Manhattan, one of the favorite cocktails of Josep Mª Gotarda. This cocktail is one of the most iconic in the mixology world and its relation with the city of New York is indisputable, at Ideal you can enjoy its classical version made out of whisky or rye but Gotarda has his own preference and makes it with bourbon or, if the client desires, he makes it with vermouth. However, this cocktail doesn’t need any extra change to be perfect in its own way with the traditional recipe and that’s what makes it so famous amongst other cocktails. Here we leave you the recipe for a good Manhattan and the pictures of the reportage.

Manhattan

Ingredients

  • 6 cl of bourbon or rye
  • 2 cl of black vermouth (at Ideal we use Martini)
  • 2 touches of Angostura
  • 1 marrasquino cherry

Preparation
Cool down a martini glass, put in a shaker some ice and shake it, take out the water excess and add the bourbon, the vermouth and the angostura, mix it up to cool everything down. Put a cherry in the glass and pour down the liquid in it filtering the ice with a strainer and it’s ready to serve.
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Halloween at Ideal

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Halloween has come to Ideal! And to celebrate it until Monday we will be serving two very special cocktails created by ourselves.
The first one is a vey unique gintonic, here we leave you the recipe:

  • Gin Vones macerated with chestnut
  • Schweppes Tonic
  • A few drops of chestnut syrup
  • Licorice stick for garnish
  • Pumpkin strip for garnish
  • Roasted marshmallows

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And the second one:

  • Tequila
  • Pumpkin juice
  • Chestnut syrup
  • Ginger Syrup

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Take advantage of these days to enjoy these cocktails that will only be available until Monday!

Barcelona Rum Congress

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Last weekend took place the Barcelona Rum Congress, a congress dedicated to the industry and culture of this unique distillate.
The event was held at the Llotja de Mar in Barcelona and it brought together professionals from all walks of rum in a show full of content. Business, education and experience were the three main axes that structured this congress with all kinds of activities from conferences to exhibitions.
On the occasion of this event they created the Mixology Route , a route in which the 10 best cocktail bars in Barcelona collaborate with the creation of an exclusive cocktail made with rum, our proposal for this route was the Ideal Stormy, here we leave the recipe:

IDEAL STORMY

  • 3 cl de Flor de Caña 4 years Rum
  • 2 cl lime juice
  • 2 ds Bitter
  • 1,5 cl de homemade ginger syrup
  • 6 cl de Ginger Bier
  • Top de 3 cl de Punta Cana Rum
  • Garnish it with mint and dehydrated grapefruit

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Ideal in Le Shaker

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Le Shaker magazine has reviewed us in their last number of June, Ideal Cocktail Bar can be find inside the report of Barcelona’s best cocktail bars along with other great bars of the city, besides the review we talk to them about our very own Ideal Cocktail, here we leave you the extracts of the magazine and the recipe for the Ideal Cocktail.

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Ideal Cocktail

Ingredients

  • 5cl of White Mezcal from Ágave Espadín
    1/4 of orange
    2cl of cinnamon and chile syrup
    3.5cl of strawberry purée
    2cl of lime juice

    • Elaboration
    Put in a shaker the chopped orange and pestle it, after that add the rest of the ingredients with quite a lot of ice. It will be served shaked in an individual jar with enough crushed ice. To decorate put a piece of pink grapefruit and a piece of papaya, both of them dehydrated.

    Divine Barcelona

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    Last week we were featured in Barcelona Divina magazine. We were in a top 5 of the best cocktail bars of Barcelona which were challenged to create de “Barcelona Divina’s Cocktail”. Our barman Manel was inspired by the uniqueness and explosiveness of this city to create his cocktail Barcelona Divina, in it he mixed the citric of oranges and limes, the sweetness of cinnamon and strawberries and the final touch was the adding of a spicy chile all of that mixed in Mezcal. Manel defined it like:

    “This is a refreshing cocktail, fruity, with smokey and spicy details and with a slightly peppery final touch”.

    Here we leave you the ingredients as well as the elaboration if you want to try it at home!

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    Ingredients

    • 5cl of White Mezcal from Ágave Espadín
    • 1/4 of orange
    • 2cl of cinnamon and chile syrup
    • 3.5cl of strawberry purée
    • 2cl of lime juice

    Elaboration
    Put in a shaker the chopped orange and pestle it, after that add the rest of the ingredients with quite a lot of ice. It will be served shaked in an individual jar with enough crushed ice. To decorate put a piece of pink grapefruit and a piece of papaya, both of them dehydrated.

    Arrels & Ideal

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    Last thursday we had the pleasure of going to the inauguration event for the new shoe collection of Arrels Barcelona in which lots of creatives such as Neil Harbisson, Catalina Estrada, Hey Studio or Yoshi Sislay. have collaborated.

    We are really glad to have participated in this celebration with the creation of our very own cocktail inspired by the creations of Javier and Pepe Llaudet whom day after day struggle to make real a new brand of high quality and sustainable fashion as well as (like they say) radical shoes. Here we leave you some of the pictures of the party and the recipe for the cocktail Arrels:

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    Christian Escribà made this incredible cake inspired by the new collection of Arrels.

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    Cocktail Arrels:

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    • 5cl gin
    • 2cl cherry brandy
    • 2cl of wild berries mash
    • 1cl lemon juice
    • >Fill with ginger Bier
    • Garnish with wild berries

    Mobile World Cocktail II

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    Yesterday we showed you a new cocktail specialy made for this year Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress, today we show you another new cocktail made for the fair, the Mobile World Cocktail Umami.

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    This cocktail is an appetizer and it’s strongly spiced with a unique personality, its ingredients are:
    Opihr Gin
    Green pepper spice
    Dry Lillet Vermouth
    Refined Jerez Sherry (Fino)
    Umeshu liquor
    We finish it with a lemon tree lead and a lime.

    Mobile World Cocktail

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    Dye to this year 2016 Mobile World Congress we have created a new cocktail in Ideal, this cocktail can be served anytime along the daytime, it’s subtly sweet and fruity.
    Here we leave you the recipe if you want to try it…!

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    M.W.C Mobile World Cocktail Ideal.

    Pisco barsol quebranta
    Mango Pulp
    Orange juice
    P.X. Sherry
    Tobacco leaf bitter
    Decoration: kiwi, berry and dried apple

    Keep in mind that as always in Ideal we have a great selection of whiskies waiting to be tasted after a long day in the Fair.

    Mixology artists in Barcelona.

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    Last saturday the 9th Josep Mª Gotarda had a little profile made by the newspaper “El Periódico” in their section “Mixology Artists”, they highlighted the fact that hi won his first mixology award at seventeen as well as his different jobs an experience in Paris and Canada, finally it explained how nowadays Josep Mª has become one of the most important figures in the Mixology world since he became head of the Ideal Cocktail Bar at the age of 25 years old. His recommended cocktail? The Piscosour: pisco, bitter, egg white, lemon juice and sugar, all mixed in a shaker.

    Jean-Luc friend’s dinner

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    El passat 13 de juliol ens vam reunir a la terrassa de l’hotel Duquesa de Cardona per recordar al gran xef Jean-Luc Figueres al qual vam perdre lamentablement al setembre de 2014, i quin millor homenatge que reunir-nos familiars, amics i admiradors per recordar anècdotes al voltant de bons plats i cocktails elaborats pels seus companys de professió. Per a aquest event vam crear un cocktail especial, el Sherry Julep:

    Last july 13 we went to the reunion at the terrace of the Duquesa de Cardona Hotel to remember the amazing chef Jean-Luc Figueres whom we sadly lost last september, and what a best homage than reuniting familiars, friends and admirers to remember the best anecdotes surrounded by good plates and cocktails made by his peers chefs. For this event we created an special cocktail, the Sherry Julep:

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    Ingredients:

    6 o 8 mint leafs
    1,5 cl lemon juice
    1,5 cl sugar syrup
    1 cl Pedro Ximenez
    4 cl sherry
    Crushed ice
    1,5 cl soda
    1 drop of bitter