Palm Beach restaurants offer variety of frozen cocktails to beat summer heat

During this steamy summer, folks are chilling out in Palm Beach by sipping an icy cold best-kept secret: Frozen cocktails here are delicious and inventive so forget cloying concoctions gulped at spring-break haunts.

Whether made with a frozen-drink machine, blender or other means, frozen cocktails on the island employ fresh fruits and juices, premium spirits, perhaps a spritz of Champagne and other goodies.

Fashionable types certainly won’t let the summer pass without indulging in a frosé, the frozen version of the hot-season’s de rigueur drink in Palm Beach: Provençal rosé wine.

The Breakers

1 S. County Road

As outdoor temperatures climb, The Breakers is serving lots of frozen pours this summer at its Beach Club Restaurant, Ocean House and Surf Break bar.

Think frozen peach bellinis (with vodka, strawberry swirl, Peach Island Oasis and Champagne float), and citron frozen lemonade (Ketel One Citroen Vodka and lemonade). Each is $20.

“Frozen beverages are refreshing, flavorful and fun, especially on a warm summer day,” Mark Gerstner, director of The Breakers’ restaurant division, told the Daily News. “They whisk you away to a vacation state of mind. Each sip evokes a sense of pure relaxation and pleasure in paradise.”

Widely popular frozen cocktails include classics — frozen margaritas and daiquiris, anyone? — plus drinks with a locally celebrated ingredient, Gerstner said.

At The Breakers, other frozen cocktails reflect a more health-conscious lifestyle as people seek “reduced sugar, calories and alcohol content, such as with our Frozen Skinny Pineapple Margarita, which is actually served in a cored-out pineapple…” (that cocktail is $25; if served in a cocktail glass, it’s $20).

The Breakers serves frozen cocktails only at its aforementioned Beach Club, Ocean House and Surf Break.

That means they’re available exclusively to hotel guests and the resort’s club members. If you’re not one of those folks, here’s where else in Palm Beach you can enjoy refreshing, heat-busting frozen cocktails:

Café Boulud at The Brazilian Court

301 Australian Ave.

If there’s one frozen drink that’s oh-so-Palm Beach, it’s frosé — the frozen version of summer’s must-have sipper: Provencal rosé.

Café Boulud’s frosé ($18) features The Beach rosé by Provence’s Chateau D’Esclans, which for years has been renowned for its rosé wines, including the popular Whispering Angel.

Brazilian Court guests sip Café Boulud’s frosé around the hotel’s pool while the restaurant’s patrons enjoy it in the bar and lounge.

Or you can try making frosé at home, Café Boulud's Sommelier David Sauer told the Daily News.

“As we are all enduring these extremely hot days and nights of summer, making a frosé is a fun and easy way to stay cool while still enjoying your favorite rosé,” he said. “It’s as simple as combining frozen fruit and/or berries of your choice, a little citrus (lemon or lime juice), rosé wine and ice in a blender … You could even get more playful by adding a spirit, such as vodka, rum, gin, tequila, or Aperol along with a pinch of sugar to enhance the sweetness.”

Al Fresco

2345 S. Ocean Blvd.

The oceanfront restaurant overlooking the Par 3 Golf Course recently experienced what manager Epigmenio Ortega described as a frozen-cocktail “domino effect.”

After a patron ordered a frozen blood-orange margarita, others seated nearby saw the drink and wanted one, too.

“Suddenly we were making one after another because on a hot summer day, you can see by looking at the frozen blood-orange margarita that it’s refreshing,” Ortega told the Daily News.

Made using a frozen-drink machine, Al Fresco’s frozen blood-orange margarita ($16) includes tequila, fresh-squeezed blood-orange juice, lime juice, agave syrup and Cointreau.

“Frozen cocktails are always popular at Al Fresco because of our location and also because people love them,” Ortega said. “But that’s especially true in the hot summer. And this blood-orange frozen cocktail is delicious.”

LoLa 41

290 Sunset Ave.

Mangoes — all the rage now because the locally beloved fruit is in season in the summer — star in what’s now the most popular frozen cocktail at LoLa 41: Mango Tango.

The super-cold beverage ($16), made with a frozen-cocktail machine, includes tequila, LoLa 41-label Torrentes white wine, pureed fresh mango and citrus-chili rum.

Get the Mango Tango while it’s hot because when autumn arrives, LoLa 41, the signature restaurant of the White Elephant boutique hotel, will highlight a different seasonal libation, said Anthony Budd, the restaurant’s general manager.

Until then, “our guests love how refreshing frozen cocktails are and how well they go with outdoor dining,” Budd told the Daily News. “Nothing beats a delicious, full-of-flavor Mango Tango poolside.”

Breeze Ocean Kitchen at Eau Palm Beach Resort

100 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan

Come Labor Day and folks at Eau Palm Beach Resort’s al fresco, oceanfront Breeze Ocean Kitchen will be “rocking the bike.” That’s a frozen cocktail-related activity.

Pedal a stationary bike that Breeze features on busy holiday weekends and a blender mounted near the handlebars is activated to make frozen cocktails; namely, margaritas in a variety of fresh-fruit flavors.

Breeze Ocean Kitchen guests can engage in "Rock the Bike" on Sept. 4, when Labor Day margaritas will be specially priced from $5 to $10.

Otherwise, Breeze features daily frozen daiquiris — from strawberry to mango. Depending on the grade of alcohol one requests, the frozen daiquiris start at $14.

“There’s something about a frozen cocktail on a warm Florida day with the sound of the ocean in the background,” Michelle Philips, Eau’s director of marketing, said. “Guests love a frozen cocktail. I wish I could join them!”

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