“My drink’s spec was 2, 1, 1 and ‘some’ at the time” says Cecchini, referring to the citrus vodka, Cointreau, lime juice and cranberry juice, respectively. Cranberry juice was also added to maintain the drink’s pink hue. Cecchini remixed the drink, added a citrus vodka (“it was new and cool at the time”), fresh lime juice and Cointreau, which was being used for the restaurant’s margaritas. I thought it was amazingly pretty, super cute and … disgusting. It was made with rail vodka, Rose’s lime juice and Rose’s grenadine. “She went to San Francisco and came back and showed me this drink that was being consumed in all the gay and leather bars. What we learned … The Cosmopolitan was inspired by a drink called … The Cosmopolitanīartending at Odeon in 1988 (where Basquiat, Warhol and Keith Haring were regulars), Cecchini was introduced to a drink called The Cosmopolitan by a female coworker. To set things right, we recently took a Cosmo class at Cecchini’s bar and talked with the drink’s creator about common misperceptions, weathering the Sex and the City association and where the Cosmo fits in with the 21st century cocktail scene. That is the fault of bad bartending - not the cocktail itself. Of course, if you’ve ordered a Cosmopolitan in the last two decades, chances are you had a bad, cloyingly sweet version. The cocktail renaissance may have happened years after the Cosmo originated, but it’s still a drink with a purpose, fresh ingredients and measured, consistent proportions. A Cosmo class with Toby Cecchini and Alfred Cointreau ( Benjamin Lozovsky/BFA.com)īut some of the reclaimed interest comes with time. Some of it has to do with the tipple’s association with Cointreau (the French liqueur in Cecchini’s drink recipe), which has recently pushed out new recipes and prioritized the cocktail at press and promotional events. Thirty-one years since the drink’s debut, the Cosmopolitan is not-so-improbably making a comeback. “They could never remember the name of it, so they would just call it the ‘pink drink’ and call me ‘boyfriend,’” Cecchini says, reminiscing about the drink’s origins earlier this month at his Brooklyn cocktail den The Long Island Bar over a retro soundtrack of Rick Astley and New Order.
More than a decade before the Cosmopolitan hit the larger cultural zeitgeist - mostly thanks to its ubiquity on HBO’s Sex and the City - the pink cocktail had already made its mark in downtown New York.Īmong the drink’s many fans in 1988? Madonna and Sandra Bernhard, who used to order the Cosmo at Odeon straight from the drink’s creator, Toby Cecchini.
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