![]() Expect tropical drinks such as a peach paloma and habanero margarita, an orange creamsicle mojito, and a classic Mai Tai. ![]() The restaurant also features a breezeway tiki bar complete with swing beds and lounge areas for late-night hangouts. Among the desserts served at Gezzo’s are a four-layer coconut cake, tres leches, and churro bread pudding. A partnership between the Hsus and La Michoacana sees Mexican-style ice cream, sundaes, and mangonadas served from a takeout window on the covered patio and a walk-up window on the side of the building. Taking over the former Juniper Cafe space at Westside Village, look for dishes like ceviche, a coconut curry rice bowl, Baja chicken egg rolls, tempura fish tacos, and overstuffed burritos. Reservations encouraged.īacked by Sweet Auburn BBQ owners Anita and Howard Hsu, Gezzo’s Cantina is an extension of the siblings’ McDonough and Locust Grove West Coast burrito joints of the same name, but with an expanded menu featuring more seafood and coastal dishes from Mexico and countries around Latin America. La Panarda is a family affair, too, with VanTrece’s daughter Kursten Berry leading the bar as beverage director and wife Lorraine Lane overseeing the wine for the restaurant. Dessert includes panettone bread pudding and Georgia peach crostata with mascarpone whip. An ossobucco lamb shank sits atop polenta with a wild mushroom and spring pea compote and the Berkshire smoked pork cheek carbonara is tossed in black ink pasta. Here, VanTrece offers her signature Southern twists on classic Italian dishes, including oysters arancini with a pink peppercorn remoulade, marinated seafood salad with cornbread biscotti, and eggplant and fried green tomato parmesan with lemon ricotta drizzled in aged balsamic dressing. **As an Amazon associate I earn from qualifying purchases.After closing Serenidad in Cascade Heights earlier this year, chef Deborah VanTrece ( Twisted Soul Cookhouse and Pours, Oreatha’s at the Point) quickly replaced it with celebratory Italian restaurant La Panarda, where feasting and sharing are paramount. Pin this now to save it for later! More Margarita Recipes How easy was that?! While sipping this fruity tequila cocktail, I kept thinking about all the fruit nectars out there! Perhaps I should make my new pretend made up job to be trying all the possible fruit margaritas! I like to use Himalayan Pink Salt, because it's pretty, tastes good and has some trace minerals!Īdd ice to cocktail shaker and shake until a frost forms on the outside of the shaker - usually 15 to 30 seconds.Īdd ice to your margarita glass and strain the cocktail into the glass. Run a lime wedge around the rim of a cocktail glass and dip it in salt. Lime - not pictured! Use fresh squeezed juice.Īdd one ounce of mango nectar to a cocktail shaker and then add 1 tablespoon of lime juice.Īdd 2 dashes of grapefruit bitters, which is about ¼ a teaspoon.Īdd 2 ounces of tequila to cocktail shaker.Mango Nectar - usually easy to find at most grocery stores in the International foods aisle.Bitters - since the mango nectar was sweet, we used a little extra dash of a citrus bitters - in this case a Grapefruit bitters.Tequila - we usually use a Tequila Reposado - which means that it's been aged for at least 60 days and up to one year usually in an American oak barrel.I usually use own Homemade Orange Liqueur, but I was out (don't worry, I have another batch steeping!) Orange Liqueur - if you wonder about what type of orange liqueur to buy, the Serious Eats Guide to Orange Liqueur is a good read.Give this mango margarita a try (also called a Margarita de Mango) I think you'll love it!Ĭlick here to pin this refreshing margarita now! Ingredients This was hardly any more work than a regular margarita and had a fun, fruity vibe and a gorgeous color! I thought it would be perfect in a fruity cocktail and it was. Last Saturday, while looking in the fridge, I noticed a bottle of mango nectar that I bought for a recipe and hadn't used yet. I am definitely a salty snacker (you should see how salty I like my popcorn) so any salt rimmed cocktail automatically jumps to the top. There is something about that combination of tequila, lime juice, a little orange liqueur and salt that just keeps me coming back for more. Our routine is to watch a movie, and just for the record Netflix beats out all of our other cable channels combined, and sip a cocktail. We have margaritas almost every Saturday evening. This Mango Margarita is so easy and delicious! You don't even need fresh mangoes, made with easy to find mango juice or nectar! Fruity and tangy, it's the perfect cocktail! Jump to Recipe Jump to Video Print Recipe
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