Singapore Sling @ Long Bar, Raffles Hotel Singapore

Singapore Sling @ Long Bar, Raffles Hotel Singapore

Last month my job gave me a great opportunity to visit Singapore and when I was in Singapore how can I resist myself from not visiting the historical Long Bar at The Raffles Hotel and drink a Classical Singapore Sling. My visit was worth a million. The time I entered Raffles hotel I got that feeling of reaching a place with a lot of heritage and history. 

After making my way through stairway, I saw some visual pointers to the Long bar mentioning,” Long bar 45 steps ahead”. And I started counting every step I took towards the legendary long bar, exactly after taking 45 steps I was standing at the door of the bar which has created 'The Singapore sling'.

As done by every bartender, I went ahead and made myself comfortable at the bar. One strange that got my attention was the debris all around the venue which I later realised were peanut coats. I recollected reading this somewhere that when you are in The Long bar you are served with peanuts as bar snacks and coats for which have to be dumped on floor as a ritual which has been followed for ages. I did the same for all the peanut served to me :-)

Cocktails are normally premixed but on our request bartender made a fresh one for us. It was served in a specially crafted Singapore Sling glass also called as Poco Grande glass with pineapple and maraschino cherry as the garnish.

Raffle's Singapore Sling Recipe

40 ml Gin

20 ml Cherry Heering Liqueur

5 ml Cointreau

5 ml DOM Benedictine

10 ml Grenadine

80 ml Pineapple Juice

Lemon juice

1 Dash Angostura bitters

Methods :- Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice cubes. Shake well. Strain into Poco Grande glass. Garnish with pineapple and maraschino cherry.

Cocktail taste was brilliant & out of the world, but other thing that was served to me with the drink was a story to tell to many about my first experience of visiting a bar where a Classical cocktail was created. Cheers to Singapore Sling......