Christmas drinks at Saoko Cocktail Club

Blackpool Gazette

Aitor Garcia and Taff Belkadi, owners of Saoko Cocktail Club in Blackpool, offer some advide for some unusual Christmas drinks

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:02 - Well, we are in Sao Co, it's a new concept in Blackpool.

00:11 What we bring in, the idea is bringing from,

00:14 obviously we're from Canary Island, I'm from Tenerife.

00:17 He's from Grand Canary, and the idea of all this is

00:19 bringing a new concept fresh from our island.

00:24 Obviously, we train in hospitality all these years,

00:27 and we want to bring something new to Blackpool.

00:30 So for that, we just bring in these glasses you have here,

00:35 and this is all homemade, one by one.

00:39 It took us three months to bring them here,

00:42 and they are special because we try to make an experience

00:46 for the people, so all the cocktails

00:49 got a concept behind them.

00:50 For example, if we're talking about the Brutal Kraken,

00:53 that's how we call it here,

00:54 is one of our world experience cocktails,

00:57 and this is, we call it like that because it used to be

01:01 a black octopus 40 years ago in the Scandinavian folklore.

01:06 So if we dip into it, it's got note of peach,

01:10 and then it's got some rum,

01:12 Añejo 23 years, Olera, with Zacapa,

01:15 and yeah, it's really interesting.

01:17 - Yeah, it's like Spain, it's like the typical date,

01:20 like they enjoy it from first date

01:25 until the sixth, where it's like the kids,

01:28 it's like the Dia de Reyes,

01:31 and that is like very usual with the light,

01:36 with a lot of different type of food, drink.

01:42 - Should we get it here, the sixth of Christmas,

01:46 should we celebrate in Sao Paulo?

01:47 - Yeah, yeah, we will.

01:48 - That would be nice, eh?

01:49 - Yeah, we will be celebrating,

01:50 that is the concept, like make it like a holiday,

01:53 bring it close to the local.

01:56 - Christmas drinks is, first of all,

02:02 it need to be warm, like Christmas is warm

02:05 to be with family and--

02:07 - Using like cinnamon, like very,

02:10 it's good when it's like a cold winter,

02:12 cinnamon, ginger, we go to add a little bit more

02:15 like a garnish to our cocktail.

02:18 - And to be honest, that's the excuse,

02:20 the excuse to make a cocktail for Christmas

02:23 is the excuse to go out, to meet the family.

02:26 - Our life, yeah, that is how it's built,

02:29 Sao Paulo is like a part where you can enjoy

02:32 with your family, with, I would say,

02:35 younger, like meeting for like a work meeting or something,

02:40 that is the place we want to make it like for everyone.

02:45 (upbeat music)

02:48 (clinking)

02:50 - Hello guys, we are in Sao Paulo, Clifton C33,

03:00 we're gonna make today Christmas cocktails.

03:03 So we're gonna start with this one,

03:04 it's a bit fancy, in our menu it's abracadabra,

03:08 but it's represent the magic as well,

03:10 with the hearts and the rabbits,

03:12 magic because the magic of Christmas.

03:14 So, first of all, we put ice,

03:18 or we're gonna use Don Papa,

03:22 it's a rum from Caribbean, it's really nice,

03:25 really tasty, floral notes, really nice.

03:30 So we're gonna use of this 50,

03:33 and we're gonna go for our Baileys,

03:41 it's a bit thick, it's a product that everybody knows,

03:45 and Irish cream, we're gonna put 30 on that,

03:50 there we go, and to finalize this cocktail,

03:54 we're gonna put a little bit of touch of vanilla syrup,

03:57 yeah, and that's it, just shake.

04:02 (clinking)

04:04 (clinking)

04:06 We're gonna add some rice,

04:20 and on top we're gonna use the whipped cream,

04:25 so this is homemade as well,

04:27 we're just adding some notes of canela,

04:30 and cinnamon and vanilla as well.

04:34 (whipping)

04:36 And to finalize, we're gonna put some,

04:47 yeah, we're going to put some dry flowers,

04:50 to give it a little bit of aroma.

04:53 (clinking)

05:01 And that's the first one.

05:03 (upbeat music)

05:06 The second one is gonna be,

05:17 Macri's ice cream, this is really nice

05:21 for this season as well, it's gonna be like a show factor

05:26 because it's with a bit of a smoke, let's start with it.

05:30 So we got Tia Maria to start, it's coffee liqueur,

05:34 really nice, really intense as well,

05:37 let's, 50 of that.

05:40 We're gonna put, this is a rum for Zacapa,

05:46 Republican Dominican, 23 years olera, it's really nice,

05:50 vanilla notes as well, we're gonna put 30 of these.

05:58 We go for the Baileys as well, so to give that thickness,

06:02 we're gonna put 50 of that.

06:05 And there we go, just shake.

06:12 (whipping)

06:15 (clinking)

06:18 And with this smoke we're gonna make,

06:34 we're gonna make--

06:35 - Yeah, the same flavor that it got to the ice cream,

06:37 vanilla, we have it in smoke,

06:39 that's it give a little bit of extra taste.

06:44 (clinking)

06:46 - And then we serve it to the customer,

06:56 and then just we need to take the lid out,

06:59 and slowly, until all the smoke is gone, slowly.

07:04 (upbeat music)

07:07 (upbeat music)

07:10 It's ready to enjoy.

07:15 We can't guarantee the sound,

07:26 but we can guarantee the good vibe, that's for sure.

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