Pour Yourself a Drink: The Boulevardier

Alex Van Buren
·Food Features Editor
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Pour Yourself a Drink: Boulevardier

It’s Friday. You’re in love. Or maybe you’re not. Whatever. You need a drink, and you need it 20 minutes ago.

So here you go: a boulevardier, from a gentleman bartender known as King Cocktail, a.k.a. Dale DeGroff, a.k.a. one of the guys who helped launch the craft cocktail boom back in the ’80s. At bars such as New York City’s renowned Rainbow Room (which, incidentally, is reopening this fall) DeGroff “pioneered a gourmet approach to recreating the great classic cocktails,” trumpets his website.

This is Neapolitan ice cream of drinks. Three simple ingredients—Campari, sweet vermouth, and rye whiskey—mingle with fabulous results. Bonus: You can make it ”quickly without a lot of fuss,” promises DeGroff.

Its etymology traces to an American man named Harry who opened a bar in Paris… what’s not to love? 

So keep it simple. And TGIF.

Boulevardier
from Liquor.com
Makes 1 cocktail

1 oz. Campari
1 oz. sweet vermouth
1 1/4 oz. rye whiskey
Orange twist (garnish)

Add all the ingredients to a rocks glass filled with ice and stir to combine. Garnish with an orange twist.

(To serve the drink up, add all the ingredients to a mixing glass and fill with ice. Stir, and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange twist.)