Cocktail: A Black Russian, down Pat

29 July 2015 - 02:17
By Barry Clausen

It's not often that Gareth Wainwright of The Landmark cocktail bar in Bryanston has his cocktails met with scorn. Late one evening, a beautiful, blonde, blue-eyed Irish lass walked into The Landmark and ordered a Black Russian. Wainwright mixed her the traditional two shots of premium vodka and one of Kahlua in a frosted Old Fashioned glass only to have the gal from Galway sneer, "That's not how you make a Black Russian!"Of course, it is, but everything's a little different in Ireland: Sometime...

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