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I’m not exactly sure why, but the sidecar is always the first cocktail that pops into my brain. I think it may have been one of the first cocktails recipes I ever memorized back when I was getting started behind the bar. Which is weird considering I was working at a Spanish tapas restaurant, and sidecars were nowhere to be found on the menu. Regardless, the sidecar remains one of the all-time classics; the perfect balance of tart and sweet. Strangely I’ve never made one for the blog. So today, in honor of our special giveaway I’m finally shaking up a sidecar.
That’s right, we’re giving away this stunning Goldfinger bar set from Umami Mart!! This is the real flippin’ deal – a full set of gold-plated barware from Japan. To enter, simply (1) leave a comment on this post letting us know what cocktail you’d make with these classy new tools (2) like Umami Mart on Facebook OR follow on Instagram. A winner will be randomly chosen on December 9, 2014. (Limited to US & Canada residents only. Winner will be contacted by email. Good luck!!!)
The sidecar is definitely a simple drink to learn, having only three ingredients: cognac, Cointreau, and lemon. In fact, it’s thought by many to be the precursor to the margarita.
The Goldfinger set includes: a gold-plated cobbler shaker, a gold-plated jigger, two coupe glasses, a Queen Elizabeth swizzle stick, and two gold circle cocktail pins.
You might have noticed that I adapted the classic sidecar recipe, replacing the lemon with yuzu. Yuzu is a tart citrus native to East Asia and commonly found in Japanese and Korean cuisine.
They aren’t quite as juicy as a common lemon, but check out those enormous seeds!!
Start by prepping your glass. Rub a freshly cut yuzu around the rim of your coupe glass. Dip the rim of the glass into some sugar.
Next, add the cognac, Cointeau, and yuzu juice to your cobbler shaker. Fill with ice and shake shake shake for 10 seconds!
Strain into your sugar-rimmed coupe glass.
If you’d like, use a cocktail pin to garnish with a lovely twist of yuzu.
And you’re ready to drink.
I hope you enjoy this classic cocktail!
And don’t forget to enter to win this GORGEOUS Japanese barware!
To enter the giveaway:
- Leave a comment on this post telling us what cocktail you’d make with your new barware.
- “Like” Umami Mart on Facebook OR follow on Instagram.
YUZU SIDECAR
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 oz cognac
- 3/4 oz Cointreau
- 3/4 oz yuzu juice
- granulated sugar
- yuzu twist for garnish (optional)
Directions:
- Rub a yuzu wedge around the rim of a chilled coupe glass and dip into a plate of sugar to coat the rim.
- Add the cognac, Cointreau, and yuzu juice into a shaker. Fill the shaker with ice and shake for 10 seconds.
- Strain into the sugar-rimmed coupe glass.
- Garnish with a yuzu twist (optional).
(images by HonestlyYUM)
I would make a Singapore Sling
Ahhhh! Too many choices, I’d definitely make one of your beautiful cocktails, that is for sure! Probably this one–since I am a citrus/yuzu fanatic!
You picked the perfect drink to show off that beautiful shaker, and I’m a citrus fanatic so I have to track some some yuzus
I would make my husband’s nightly Manhattan with it and really impress him!
i liked on facebook and would love to make a lemondrop!
ladies in navy
Oh my. That barware took my breath away. The photos in this post are simply amazing, and yes, a sidecar is a go-to drink. I think I’d make this one though, just because I love my manhattans! http://honestlyyum.com/8845/manhattan-cocktail-recipe/
Definitely a manhattan
an old fashioned for sure
Filthy martini — that barware set definitely calls for something classic & timeless. Martini it is.
I would try your Sidecar recipe as the inaugural cocktail
Aperol spritz. Liked on FB.
Love the gold. I would make a white cosmo with some candied cranberries.
It would be an aviation for me!
LOVE this bar set and would make so many sidecars with it! Sidecar has been my cocktail of choice for about 10 years and I just never get sick of it… I have loved trying different variations over the years. These glasses are gorgeous and perfect for a 5:00 sidecar!
I would make a shaken lemon and mint martini <3
A Perfect Manhattan!
Celery Tonic with Letherbee gin
A Manhattan hands down!
I’d make the perfect dirty martini!
i’ll happily make a manahattan!
What a gorgeous bar set! I can’t drink at the moment since I’m “with child,” but I would totally use this to whip up a cocktail for my husband (so 1950’s of me, right?) I personally love a pisco sour, but he’s partial to a gin martini, so I guess I’d have to opt for that.
I would definitely make a classic gin martini with a twist!
This set is beautiful. I would make a whisky sour.
Moscow mule! That’d go perfect with the golden bar set!
With my new barware I will be making this drink I found on your site: Pumpkin Pie Bourbon!
Also, Liked Umami Mart on FB!
Definitely would make this yuzu sidecar!
I would make a Royal BumudaYacht Club cocktail. That beautiful gold barware and an Hawaiin shirt would help me to forget that I live in Michigan and it’s 20 degrees outside.
What wouldn’t I make?? To start i think it would have to be an old fashioned.
A classic Vesper! Liked on FB
Cheers, daahhhhhling!
A passion fruit saikirinha (like a caipirinha but with sake) !
Cosmo’s! I’d feel very Carrie Bradshaw making cosmos’s out of Gold Barware !
A greyhound, my favorite!
I think I would have to make this yuzu sidecar! I’ve never had a sidecar before but it sounds delicious.
I’d make anything with gin! or mezcal!!
Manhattans galore!
Love this! I’d try a pisco sour!
I’d make a Moscow Mule – or really anything with ginger beer!
Sidecars were introduced to me at my very first business ‘dinner’. Hubby and I are currently enjoying Maple Leaf Cocktails with sprigs of thyme.
How can I not make a side car with lemon. Yuzu are out of season, obviously, in North America.
I would love to first try a sidecar – but I’d have to use lemon, since I live in a very remote area and am unable to obtain yuzu easily. I’d also love to make some extra dirty martinis, or perhaps a Manhattan or two. Thanks for a spectacular giveaway.
Absolutely gorgeous. I would make a gin and tonic.
Pisco sour first, then a sidecar (I’ve never had one!)
I love almost any drink with gin. A grapefruit, gin and Rosemary would be what Id put in those beautiful glasses!
I think these would be a gorgeous way to show off a Jack Rose.
I would make a brandy old fashioned and curl up by my fireplace!
I would make a classic old fashioned first, but anything is possible with this beautiful set!
What a great giveaway!! Just started infusing liquors and would love this set to experiment with– but a Pisco Sour would be perfect in these glasses.
Love the sidecar! Actually one of my favorite drinks, and would love to try the yuzu twist. I would also love to make a French 75. Cheers!
Definitely a Papa Roble. I want to get my bar cart started and this would be the perfect way!!!
Definitely a gin gimlet!
Junipero Gin neat with a rosemary sprig !
Manhattans!
Dirty martini, for sure!
I’d use this sassy set to make some tasty greyhounds this citrus season!
This set is very sexy. I will be making a Chocolate Martini as soon as it arrives on my doorstep.
I would make a Negroni! This bar set is so gorgeous ….
my drink of the winter is white russians – especially eggnog white russians right before Christmas! I’d definitely use this barware to make me some of those and all my friends!
I’ll be making Palomas! The pink and gold will look so amazing I might just drink straight from the shaker.
I’d made my custom wedding cocktail! Champagne with st Germaine and a splash of fresh squeezed grapefruit juice, garnished with a grapefruit twist. Looks good tastes even better!
Gin and Tonic: Junipero Gin, Fresh Lime, Fever-tree tonic, St. Germain and a giant ice cube.
I’d make a French 75! What a cool giveaway!!
I’ve been drooling over that gold shaker in your store for ever. Give it to me! I’ll make a taquilla sunrise because I’m classy.
I’d keep it classic and make one of my all time favorites: A gin martini, made with St. George Terroir (best gin ever), and garnished with a lemon twist, to keep it bright and refreshing, while still being able to taste the aromatics in the Terroir Gin.
I was just scrolling quickly through instagram when I saw this gorgeous set!wow! I’d have to say that with something this special, I would first make something new. I’d go with an “old cuban”… thennn I would have to make mojitos! Definitely some mojitos.
A yuzu drop! Yum!
I’d make a last word. Thanks
I’d most probably make an Aviation with some offbeat type of bitters.
I would make this one, of course! Looks refreshing and delicious. I already like those pages on IG and FB, too. 😉
Gorgeous! I would make a Bees Knees. Gin, simple syrup, agave nectar, and lemon juice! Liked on Facebook and Instagram @baileyac33.
I would make a negroni!
Cosmo!!
This set is gorgeous! I’d make rye manhattans, among other things
I’d totally make a Brandy Alexander. Yum!
Manhattans all the way!!!!
I would treat myself to a Vesper with St.George’s Terroir and perhaps a rosemary reduction/bitter/syrup.
A blood and sand to accompany my grilled cheese sandwich!
I’d shake up a Mukilteo Rum:
3 oz rum
1 ½ oz meyer lemon juice, freshly squeezed
1 ½ oz orange juice, freshly squeezed
1 tsp. Pretty Bird Bitters (homemade)
½ to 1 tsp. simple syrup
Star anise garnish
I would invent something yummy. Vodka, persimmon, rosemary maybe…with some rosewater simple syrup. I’m going to play with that with or without the gorgeous barware!
Love to make an Old Fashioned!
I’d make one of my favorite Honestly Yum cocktails, the Lavender Bee’s Knees! Honey, lavender and golden bar ware? Yes, please!
This set is gorgeous! I would love to make a french 77!
How beautiful!!! Not to steal your idea or anything, but I would make a sidecar! 😉
My husband’s been obsessed with yuzu ever since our honeymoon to Japan, so I’d probably make something with yuzu bitters and ginger!
Cadillac Margarita … Yum!!
I would make the honestly yum perfect margarita because it’s my go to drink! This umami mart bar ware is literally all that my bar cart is missing. I love it!
New York Sour…for sure.
old fashioned!
Hands down, Maple-Bourbon Cider! (The best fall cocktail in a gold shaker? Amazing!)
I’d make a delicious French 75 in those gorgeous coupé glasses!
lemondrop! Or this. Looks amazing.
I would make a penicillin!
That’s an absolutely stunning bar set and I’d be proud to win that. Personally, I have a craving for a Brandy Crusta right now. It would be lovely in one of those sugar-rimmed coupe and a wide coin of orange peel.
sidecar with lemon looks awesome!
As usual the barware is impeccable. I would christen it with a vodka martini. So shaken, and not stirred.
I will shake up whatever my customers order. Mainly Margaritas!
It will be great to add this gorgeous barware to our small bar, inform customers about this fine product, and how we won it through you!
A white Cosmo with gold sanding sugar on the rim…..
I like to work with ingredients that are in season.
I think a Grapefruit and Rosemary Honey cocktail would be perfect!
This cocktail sounds yummy! I love this gold barware and would make coquito (Puerto Rican eggnog with rum) with a toasted coconut rum. I came across the recipe a few weeks ago and plan on making it for one of my holiday Boozy Friday posts in the next few weeks, which means I must win!
Asian pear, white honey, silver needle tea infused vodka martinis
Love love love this set! I would probably make a gimlet, I recently fell in love with how refreshing and light they are! xo
Pisco Sour, of course!!
sidecar!
I would make an Elderbubble Martini– St Germain, Raspberry Stoli, topped with champagne. Yummmm!!
Ahh I love this barware and it would look perfect in my new home on my new white and gold bar cart!
I would probably make a classic French 75 with these, since that’s my fave!
I’d make the perfect Old Fashioned for my boyfriend and I. It’s become our go-to cocktail to warm up on a cold night, with a blanket and a good movie! XO
What beautiful pictures!! I would go with my Lemon Gingerini!!
Anything with whiskey! Maybe a Manhattan, a whiskey sour, an old fashioned, or a Washington apple! I feel like any drink would taste and look great with this set.
Keep it simple with a gimlet using Letherbee gin
A Trinidad Sour!
I would make a perfect Manhattan!
I’d definitely be making this sidecar. Looks delicious!
A Golden Manhattan, with J&B instead of bourbon and Tuaca instead of sweet vermouth.
Would make so many drinks with this set!
I’d make a whiskey based mojito!
Rob Roy, all the way.
I’d try making the Yuzu Sidecar featured in this article. Sounds delicious and I just happen to have yuzu juice on hand!
I would make a port of call with macerated cranberries, ruby red port, cinnamon simple syrup, fresh lemon juice and gin! Yum! Yum yum!
HOLY YESSSS. Obsessed with Umami Mart and can never turn down a good cocktail. I’m all about this gorgeous Yuzu Sidecar but my go to drink right now is an Ume Sour!!
I would totally try this drink. always looking for a new “golden” cocktail for my Oscar party!
I would be making so many cocktails every weekend, especially gin ones since it’s my favorite. Right now I can’t think of a specific one but maybe a lavender citrus gin one!!
Wow, these are a stunner! I am all about a traditional gin martini (Hendricks) with blue cheese stuffed olives. But my boyfriend would want to make a Manhattan!
Greyhound! Grapefruit and gin (or even bourbon) are so tasty in the winter.
I’ve never made a sidecar, so I’d make that first! I follow you on IG
This Sidecar!… then perhaps an Airmail!
…and a Manhattan! love the glasses, too!
Liked on instagram. The first drink I would make be a whiskey sour.
Gin and basil gimlet
I would make a French Kiss! #mawwwh
sage cucumber julep!!
What a lovely bar set. Japanese made products are always of higher quality and beauty.
I would make a lychee martini with locally sourced lychee, of course! Cheers!!!
Liked in Instagram. ❤️
Todd, that first photo is absolutely perfect!
Seriously gorgeous photos. Wow! Some of my favorites that I’ve seen on this site
I know this sounds boring, but I’d definitely make a margarita with the barware! It’s my go-to…whether it’s lime on the rocks, or has a little muddled jalapeno, or even a bit of strawberry…it’s margaritas all the way!
Dream set! I would try the spiced pomegranate cocktail – yum! Liked on Facebook.
A Fox and Hound or a Richmond Gimlet. Yum.
I would make a ginger flavored sidecar. I think the smell and taste of fresh ginger goes so well with the holiday season!!
INGREDIENTS
Sugar
1 orange slice
2 1/4-inch-thick slices peeled fresh ginger
2 one-inch strips of orange peel
2 ounces brandy
1 ounce Cointreau or Grand Marnier
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 teaspoons maple syrup, preferably grade B
I love a good Manhattan…with Luxardo cherries
My new winter staple, a Brandy Alexander, would look irresistible emerging from that stunning shaker!
I love a good sidecar and I especially love anything with Yuzu. I would have to make this cocktail with the bar set. Also, have you tried using bottled yuzu juice? Since they have such a short season (and are especially hard to find here in Colorado) yuzu juice in a bottle is the best. I fell in love with it in Japan and often dream about that signature fragrance…yum!
Oh, I love Umami Mart! I took a class through them to learn how to make umeshu, so I’d have to say some sort of plum wine concoction or a gin + ginger shrub + soda cocktail.
Isn’t it obvious….all cocktails. I love all of mine drinks nicely shaken where ice skates on top just briefly. However my go to libation over this past summer has been the Bees Knees with home grown lavender and my very own honey. It is enjoyable to have friends over and try out some craft cocktails. I know my ex-barternder friends would be very impressed with this barware.
The bar ware from Umami Mart is so clean and beautiful. I just found a vintage mirrored tea cart and they’d pair so well together 😉 I’d make a cinnamon pear fizz! And feel fancy.
thyme infused gin and tonic!
YUZU SIDECAR or an AVIATION!
That’s the most photogenic drink I’ve ever seen! I make yuzu aioli– I’ll have to incorporate it into cocktails as well.
Lychee martini!
Watermelon juice/cucumber vodka/lime/shaken/yum
As many have said, gorgeous classic pieces deserve a gorgeous classic – a French 75, but maybe a Hiney Badger (with gin and St. Germaine) to follow.
A Manhattan! !
This one!
Peach martini
Peach martini
Gorgeous pictures, Todd! I love a good sidecar. If I had such sassy barware – and a yuzu – I would make a Tokyomilk (via Wide Eyed Legless and New_Wild) and swap out the grapefruit for yuzu! The recipe also calls for frothing up an egg white with shochu and sake so at least I’d have something to look at while using that lovely shaker. Thanks Honestly Yum & Umami Mart!
I’d break out the gold plated cocktail tools for Wild Turkey Rye, cause it’s liquid GOLD. Add some cranberry-orange syrup, allspice dram, and lemon juice for the holidays in a glass.
Sidecars are one of my favorite cocktails, though the old fashioned comes as a close second. I love the addition of yuzu in here!
A singapore sling. that barware is so bomb!
I’d kick things off with this sidecar recipe, then I’m inspired to try something with lemongrass or ginger…
My husband would make his favorite Manhattan recipe and I’d whip up a sidecar with my neighbor’s meyer lemons.
MUST try this drink, and would love to win the shaker set!
i would make this drink!
Because this barware set is Japanese I think I would have to go with a Japanese Cocktail. Three simple ingredients, 2oz Cognac, 1/2 oz Orgeat, and 3 dashes of Angostura bitters. I know this is often stirred, but I would shake it and make sure it was nice and frothy. I love this blog and have been inspired by it many times when writing my own. Thanks for sharing and thanks to Umami Mart for their generosity. If I win, you can bet this beautiful set will be featured in my next blog post!
Love this! I would make my all time favorite cocktail, a blood and sand.
An American Trilogy!
1 part Rye Whiskey
1 part Apple Brandy
Orange Bitter
1 Sugar Cube
i would love to make a classic gin martini with this beautiful set!
I would make this! Perhaps with ruby red grapefruit as an experiment.
I would love to make a Clover Club with yuzu or Tahitian Pumello in place of the lemon! Love the set!
well the answer is quite simple really … I’d use this exquisite set to try and emulate/create all the amazing drinks I see on Honestly Yum. I def would be using it for daiquiris, margaritas, martinis, all the various citrus concoctions I enjoy messing around with, whenever I deviate from traditional old fashioneds so like old fashioned based stuff, I really enjoy Aperol and having been using it more and more outside of a straight up spritz so the measuring utensil would be clutch as my eyeballing is draining my bottles maybe too rapidly lol, it’d come in handy with the whiskey sours and moscow mules, etc … possibilities are endless. Japanese stuff is the way to go!
I would make a French Gimlet with this beautiful set, and if you’re ever out in Nashville, I’ll invite you over and whip one up.
hmmmmm……so many drinks, so little time. I think I’d start with a Cosmopolitan.
After someone made me a Pear Brandy Sidecar one New Year’s Eve, I’ve been hooked on the classic Sidecar. I’m so glad classic cocktails are back in style and the Sidecar would definitely be the first cocktail I made with this set. Cheers!
Honestly, the only cocktails I make are what I learn from this site (I’ve been hooked since the Rose Fizz). This would look fabulous with the bar cart I learned to make from you guys!
I would make a New Orleans Fizz! Gorgeous set of tools!
Midnight margaritas!!!
I would give the set to my sister and she would make me my favourite cockatil – bourbon sours!
I would make an extra dirty martini, with lots of olives!
I would make a Yuzu Sidecar of course! Then I would follow it with several holiday drinks where egg nog must be included. Beautiful pictures!
What an incredibly delicious drink! I would definitely go with a pomegranate martini for the holidays. You can’t go wrong with anything pomegranate this time of year!!
I think I’d like to try making that Sidecar first!
That looks amazing! The cocktail looks delicious, and the Goldfinger bar set is stunning.
I would make a French Ginger Martini:
-Vodka
-Domaine de canton
-Grand Marnier
-Orange peel and ginger, to garnish
I love the coupe glasses. I will be on the lookout for yuzu at the farmer’s market.
What a cool contest! I think the first drink I would make would be a Greyhound – I am a huge fan of grapfruits! I liked on FB and following on IG =)
Since it’s so terribly wintery here right now I think I’d try your cardamom moscow mule. (Also, that is a stunning bar set! And I’ve liked you on FB)
Ugh it’s so hard to think of one but I’d probably just have to go with a Dark and Stormy
Also liked on instagram!
I’d try to create one of my fave tequila cocktails, the P&T, from a local restaurant in Alameda
Followed on insta, too! Thanks
I think I might have to try your Manhattan recipe. Beautiful set!
This is lovely! I would have to make a manhattan!
A French Martini
So pretty!
The paper plane.
I would love to make an old fashioned with this new equipment!
I’m with you on the sidecars! Hubs & I love them..have even had to give the recipe to bartenders because they weren’t familiar.. Tsk!
Gold barware calls for a classic cocktail; old fashioneds for everyone!
I would love to try a Blushing Betty made with this set!
I would happily concoct a batch of Vodka Gimlets for my pals with this gorgeous set! And of course, one or more of your special libations. Cheers!
I’d for sure make a French 75!
I would make this one if I could get my hands on yuzu!
I would love to shake up a Hemingway Daiquiri with this super stunning set!
Gorgeous cocktail, love that refreshing burst of citrus!
Love Sidecars but I would say that I’d make a nice Boulevardier.
I would make a Gold Rush – keepin’ it simple and delicious.
Pomegranate martini.
I would try a Salty Dog! A restaurant by me makes a fabulous version, and I’d love the set to try on my own! Thanks for the giveaway!
Moscow mule <3
I’d make a gin basil smash!
I’d make a Ramos gin fizz.
Sidecar has been my drink of choice lately… I’d have to say a classic sidecar.