Michael Walters has been a bartender with Pickle Hospitality for almost three years and was an integral part in the program at Tiki Chick. Despite being a bourbon lover at heart, Walters jumped at the opportunity to work with the Tiki Chick team as the head bartender and delve deeper into the world of rums, cachaca and other cane spirits. He quickly proved himself an expert in putting together thoughtful rum blends as seen in our house Mai Tai as well as integrating less common spirits such as aquavit into unique blends of other tropical flavors.
For our cocktail, Mimas Highball, Walters pulled inspiration from one of the house favorite's classic cocktails, the Saturn to make it into a longer and spritzier style of drink. Dorothy Parker gin lends itself so well to the fruity and funky flavors of passion fruit while being a more obvious match to the tonic that fills the glass at the end. In making a cocktail that translates just as well for take out as it would "in house," he looked to the highball style to maintain the integrity of the spirits, juices, and citrus.