Wow- I know all of you millions of readers wondered why we waited so long to post last week’s review of our outing.  Well, frankly, there is no why.  And it is not like we hated our drinks.  In fact, I think my own drink was my favorite thus far.

We headed to [tag]Sotto Sotto[/tag] with our dear friends, Erika and Jules, and enjoyed our delicious meal there.  We got cocktails before the wine and the cocktails were fabulous.  Alison really liked the Aviation  – which consisted of Zuidam gin, Luxardo maraschino, lemon juice, creme de violette.

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

Alison’s rating for the Aviation:

Presentation:  3.5 of 5 olives  – (we have decided all our drinks are starting to look alike, but this had nice flecks of ice)

Taste: 2.5 of 5 olives -she always orders this drink accidentally and think it is the ones she likes – but the French Pearl is better despite the name (that’s what she said).

Creativity: 3 of 5 olives

Overall: 3 of 5 olives

Erika and I got the Lovely Day and we felt like it was indeed such a lovely day drinking it.  I did love this drink – it was kinda like I could just gulp it because it was so refreshing.  Yet, I obviously did not gulp it – I sipped it like the lady I am.  The Lovely Day consisted of Miller’s gin, St. Germain elderflower liquer, lemon juice, simple syrup, FeeBros. grapefruit bitters and Angosutra bitters. Yum Yum Yum!

Presentation:  4 of 5 olives

Taste: 5 of 5 olives -could have had more than one!

Creativity: 4 of 5 olives -I rarely think I like bitters – but this drink rocked.

Overall: 5 of 5 olives. Ahhhhhhhh.

Enjoy your wonderful dinner and cocktail at the fabulous Sotto Sotto sometime soon!  You will smile like Alison is doing in this photo as she gets ready to sample the Lovely Day (to the right) and the Aviation.