Well, we decided to head to a new restaurant in town – one we had been told has yummy cocktails and one were we have not been before.  (So a post on the actual food etc… of the restaurant will come next…)  Alas, we are posting about the new [tag]Miller Union[/tag] restaurant on the west side of town.   Our friends, Neal and Carolyn helped open this restaurant and indeed, the cocktails are delicious. We chose the two that Neal suggested: [tag]Miller Thyme and the Manzanilla Sour.[/tag]

I’ll start with the Manzanilla Sour.   I ordered this one and as usual, I liked Alison’s better.  This chamomile infused pisco is served up with lemon juice and egg whites. The whites make it nice and frothy and adds a cool texture to it. It was a perfect mixture of all these ingredients and the chamomile certainly made this drink pop.  Neither of us found it truly “sour” as the name suggests, but that is good since I hate sour things.

Don’t forget our ratings scale is between 1 and 5 Olives.  One Olive = waste of my blogging time;  5 Olives = oh my goodness/yummmmm

Our ratings on the Manzanilla Sour:

Presentation:  3 of 5 olives

Taste: 4 of 5 olives

Creativity: 4 of 5 olives

Overall: 4 of 5 olives…it really was a nice drink and it was not too sweet or sour – you could easily have two and not feel overwhelmed.

Our second drink was another drink served “up.”  This one, I might add, I liked more than the other – but I think it is only because I am over egg whites in drinks.  I have had a lot of those lately.  Anyway, the Miller Thyme was a delicious blend of Millers Gin with housemade thyme simple syrup.  Yum, Yum, Yum.  Now, I am not much of a gin drinker, but I loved this drink.  Millers Gin is excellent anyway, but the thyme almost made me swoon.  Okay, not really, but it was good.  I made Alison drink most of my Manzanilla Sour and I drank her Miller Thyme.  Oops!

Our ratings for the Miller Thyme:

Presentation: 3 out of 5 olives…I accidently sipped the entire piece of thyme down my throat.

Taste: 5 out of 5 olives.

Creativity: 4 out of 5 olives – Only two real ingredients, but supurb.

Overall: 4.5 out of 5 olives.  Loved it!