MARGARITAVILLE
Frank And Lola - Love Pensacola and Margarita’s!
The Margaritaville Hotel is an addition to the landscape of Pensacola Beach, and the resort brought with it a Caribbean-style cafe with an upscale flare for flavor. Inside Margaritaville is where beach visitors will find the Frank and Lola Love Pensacola Café.
The cafe is named after Jimmy Buffett’s 1982 song “Frank and Lola,” which immortalized the couple on their second honeymoon in Pensacola. The blue bar top at Frank and Lola’s and the hanging blue lights above complement the emerald waters of the Gulf of Mexico, which can be seen from every window.
How To Guide For Margaritas
The basic margarita recipe consists of three ingredients: • Good Tequila • Cointreau (triple sec) • Fresh lime juice. Making good margaritas is an art form. It is about amounts and presentation, personal taste and variety. Thus a little expermentation is needed. These are basic recipes I compiled from the web and as always...
I will discuss them with my favorite Margarita Guru at Chilies and then add to the equations. He makes 50-60 a night. Commonly, most Margaritas are equal parts of each ingredient, and can vary as much as a 3 parts Tequila, 2 parts Cointreau, : 1 part: lime juice ratio.
Triple sec is an orange liqueur that adds a sweet-and sour flavor to the cocktail. Most experts prefer the Cointreau instead of bar triple sec.
Generally you shake the Margarita with ice and serve in salt rimmed glasses. You can add Grand Marnier instead of Triple sec for concocting an Exotic Expensive Margarita. Another popular substitute, based on taste, is lemon juice or mix for lime juice, again, matter of taste. You know the purists would balk at this. Here using authentic Jimmy Buffett mixes and blends are the Margaritas of Margaritaville.
THE PERFECT MARGARITA
1 oz Margaritaville® Gold Tequila
.5 oz Margaritaville® Silver Tequila
.5 oz Triple Sec
.5 oz Orange Curacao
.5 oz Lime juice
2 Lime Wedges
Rim margarita glass with salt. Combine ingredients in a shaker filled with ice. Squeeze limes and add to tin. Shake vigorously and pour into a margarita glass.
“WHO’S TO BLAME?” MARGARITA
1.5 oz Margaritaville® Gold Tequila
.5 oz Triple Sec
4 oz Margaritaville® Margarita Mix
Rim margarita glass with salt. Combine ingredients in a shaker. Shake and pour into a margarita glass with ice.
UPTOWN TOP SHELF MARGARITA
1.5 oz Margaritaville® Gold Tequila
.25 oz Cointreau®
4 oz Margaritaville® Margarita Mix
.25 oz Float Grand Marnier®
Rim margarita glass with salt. Combine ingredients in a shaker. Shake and pour into a margarita glass with ice. Add float of Grand Marnier®.
ITALIAN MARGARITA
1.5 oz. Margaritaville Calypso Coconut™ Tequila
.5 oz. Amaretto
4 oz. Margaritaville® Margarita Mix
Rim margarita glass with sugar. Combine ingredients in a shaker. Shake and pour into a margarita glass with ice.
CALYPSO MARGARITA
1 oz. Margaritaville Calypso Coconut™ Tequila
.5 oz. Peach Schnapps
.5 oz Melon Liqueur
3.5 oz. Margaritaville® Margarita Mix
Splash of pineapple juice
Combine ingredients in a shaker. Shake and pour into a margarita glass with ice.
LAST MANGO IN PARIS
1 oz Margaritaville® Gold Tequila
.5 oz Triple Sec
4 oz Margaritaville® Mango Margarita Mix
Combine ingredients in a shaker. Shake and pour into a margarita glass with ice.
PINK CADILLAC MARGARITA
1.5 oz. Margaritaville Last Mango™ Tequila
.5 oz. Cointreau®
3.5 oz. Margaritaville® Margarita Mix
Splash of cranberry juice
Combine ingredients in a shaker. Shake and pour into a margarita glass with ice.
BLUE MOON MARGARITAVILLE
1 oz Margaritaville® Silver Tequila
.5 oz Blue Curacao
.5 oz Pineapple Juice
3.5 oz Margaritaville® Margarita Mix
Rim margarita glass with sugar. Combine ingredients in a shaker. Shake and pour into a margarita glass with ice.
CACTUS COLADA
1 oz Margaritaville® Gold Tequila
1 oz Melon Liqueur
2 oz Pína Colada Mix
Combine ingredients with 6 oz of ice in a blender. Blend until smooth. Pour into a tall glass.
CALYPSO COCONUT™ AND COKE®
1.5 oz. Margaritaville Calypso Coconut™ Tequila
3 oz. Coke
Splash of Grenadine
Combine ingredients in a cocktail glass over ice.
MARGARITAVILLE® BLOODY MARIA
1.5 oz Margaritaville® Silver Tequila
4 oz tomato juice
2 Lime Wedges
1 quick shot Worcestershire Sauce
7 dashes Tabasco Sauce
Salt and Pepper to taste
Squeeze lime juice into a 16-ounce tumbler filled with ice. Add other ingredients and stir vigorously.
STRANDED ON A SANDBAR
1.5 oz Margaritaville Paradise Passion Fruit™ Tequila
.5 oz Peach Schnapps
2 oz Orange juice
2 oz Cranberry juice
Combine ingredients in a shaker. Shake and pour into a tall glass with ice.
LAST MANGO™ AND SEVEN
1.5 oz. Margaritaville Last Mango™ Tequila
3 oz. Sprite®
Combine ingredients in a cocktail glass over ice.
BRAVE BULL
.75 oz Margaritaville® Gold Tequila
.75 oz Kahlua®
Combine ingredients in a cocktail glass over ice.
KEY WEST COOLER
1 oz Margaritaville® Silver Tequila
.5 oz Cointreau®
.5 oz Cranberry juice
1 oz Margaritaville® Margarita Mix
2 tbs Sugar
Combine ingredients in a shaker filled with ice. Shake and pour into a margarita glass.
ISLAND LIME™ AND TONIC
1.5 oz. Margaritaville Island Lime™ Tequila
4 oz Tonic
Combine ingredients in a cocktail glass over ice.
TEQUILA SUNRISE
1.25 oz Margaritaville® Silver Tequila
4.5 oz Orange juice
Splash of Grenadine
Combine ingredients in a rocks glass filled with ice.
ISLAND BREEZE
1 oz. Margaritaville Calypso Coconut™ Tequila
1 oz. Margaritaville Last Mango™ Tequila
1.5 oz. Orange juice
1 oz. Pineapple juice
1.5 oz. Cranberry juice
Combine ingredients in a shaker. Shake and pour into a tall glass with ice.
TROPICAL SUNRISE
1.5 oz Margaritaville Tropical Tangerine™ Tequila
4.5 oz Orange juice Splash of Grenadine
Combine ingredients in a rocks glass filled with ice.
ISLAND SUNRISE
.75 oz.Margaritaville Calypso Coconut™ Tequila
.75 oz. Margaritaville Last Mango™ Tequila
1 oz. Orange juice
1 oz. Pineapple juice
Combine ingredients in a shaker. Shake and pour into a margarita glass with ice.
INCOMMUNICADO
.5 oz Vodka
.5 oz Margaritaville® Silver Tequila
.5 oz Rum
.5 oz Triple Sec
.25 oz Gin
.25 oz Grenadine
1 oz Pineapple juice
1 oz Cranberry juice
1.5 oz Margaritaville® Margarita Mix
Combine ingredients in a shaker. Shake and pour into a margarita glass with ice.
BASIC MARGARITAS
BLUE MARGARITA RECIPE
4 ounces of tequila
1 ounce triple sec
¼ cup fresh lime juice
2 ounces blue Curacao
1-tsp sugar.
Blend in a shaker with plenty of ice.
GOLDEN MARGARITA
4 oz. Anjeo tequila
1 oz. Grand Marnier
Sour mix
Lime juice and plenty of ice.
FROZEN MARGARITA
Limeade
4 oz. Tequila1 oz. Triple sec
Blend with lots of ice cubes till it looks slushy. You can add frozen fruit for a variation. Try peach, raspberry, strawberry or cherry liquers for a frozen margarita with a twist. Serve frozen margaritas with mango fusion vodka and watch your guests coming for more.
BANANA MARGARITA RECIPE
3-4 oz tequila
4 oz margarita mix
juice of lime
a banana.
ITALIAN MARGARITA ** NEW
1.5 ounces of Gold Tequila
.5 ounce triple sec or Cointreau
2. ounces sweet and sour mix or lime juice and sugar
1 oz. Amaretto Almond liqueur
Salted glass
TIPS FROM REAL BARTENDERS: PROS and CONS
- Margarita Mix - If you do not want to go through the bar tending hassle of blending your margarita? Opt for ready margarita mix. Pick up a margarita mix in the flavor of your choice - Strawberry - Lemon - Raspberry - Pina colada - Pineapple - Kahlua - Vanilla.
- Typically the margarita mix is to be blended with water in a blender. Thats insures consistency. A margarita mix can be very convenient at a party since margaritas are popular and you can make them straight up or frozen.
- Sweet and sour mix in a margarita is not approved by some pros. A real margarita is made of SWEETENED lime juice (like Rose's). You may add a half-a-splash of FRESH SQUEEZED orange juice to sweeten further.
- Prepared Tequila, waste of money. When you add all those other very strong flavors to a tequila, it overpowers the Tequila. The small taste differences lost smothered by the Coconut or the Strawberry etc.
- A decent tequila should cost no more than $20 a liter. The hip brands or the sophisticated labels that cost more than the national debt are just burning money. You are paying for the bottle the image and the hangover.
- If you are a fan of tequila shots. The shooters need the good stuff. It's a different league if you gulp straight. last comment courtesy of the foundation to Save the Esophogus.com