E11even restaurant may have one of the most fashionable clienteles in the entire city—so we couldn’t resist asking this Toronto hotspot to create a custom concoction for ELLE Canada. We caught up with E11even’s sommelier extraordinaire, Jonathan MacCalder, who made us a killer cocktail. Here’s what you need for the "Bootlegger’s Passion," created by MacCalder for ELLE Canada. 1.5 oz Seagram’s VO (Crown Royal also works well, says MacCalder) 1 oz fresh passionfruit juice 0.5 oz cane sugar syrup (1:1 ratio of raw, unrefined sugarcane crystals to water, stir until fully absorbed) 1 oz egg white (far superior than without it, MacCalder assures us, as it adds texture)
Read more on the E11even cocktail on the next page and Q&A with McCalder…
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