First published on . Updated on 22 Mar 2012.

Zeta is all business. Service is a matter of handing your cash over for the cocktails ($38.60 for an Earl Grey Martini and a Casino - ouch) and receiving your drink. Don’t think about hoping for more on 7pm on a Thursday night: the bar rolls two to three deep. If you want special service, come early in the week, and early in the evening. The four bartenders working the bar are all kept very busy as they pump out cocktails off head bartender Grant Collins’ long and loopy list. It’s an impressive bar, packed with every expression of gin you could hope to see as well as a high falutin’ Champagne list. And while we’re not nancies and don’t mind wearing the odd spilled Martini while waiting at the bar, and have dribbled more schooners down our fronts than we'd care to mention, you shouldn’t have to wear a mackintosh every time you order a Screwdriver. A little less speed and a little more care behind the bar would go a long way.

 


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World Class Cocktail: 23rd Guatemalan Flip
by Hayden Goodall

One of Guatemalans finest rums, Ron Zacapa 23, lends itself well in the vintage style drink the ‘Flip’. The caramel notes of Zacapa 23 is flipped with bitterness of Cynar and the sweetness of honey as well as homemade All Spice syrup. While a traditional flip is garnished with nutmeg, the ‘23rd Guatemalan Flip’ is served with a side of winter season candied figs and a toasted cinnamon quill for added aroma in the drink.

Recipe:

45ml Ron Zacappa
15ml Cynar
10ml Homemade All Spice Syrup
5ml Honey Water
1 whole Egg

Method:
Add all ingredients
Dryshake
Add ice and shake hard again
Fine strain

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Zeta Bar details

Address
Hilton Hotel, Level 4, 488 George St

Sydney 2000

Telephone 02 9266 2000

Price per person including drinks $101+

Open Mon-Sat 5pm-late

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