The most successful signature drinks at Pebble Beach Resorts boast an intriguing, captivating flavor.
Maybe it’s the way a stiff cocktail soothes a golfer’s throat after 18 holes. Or how a room filled with comfy leather chairs and rich dark wood can ease the pain of a bad match on the tennis courts. Or maybe it’s how the bartender at the club knows each of your members’ favorite drinks and just how to prepare them.
Whatever the reason, cocktails are as much a part of the club and resort experience as good food, a well-manicured golf course and personalized service.
With this in mind, creating an engaging lineup of signature drinks is essential. These enhanced creations can become your property’s trademark. However, creating a signature cocktail takes more than mixing a splash of this with a jigger of that. Signature cocktails must truly be signature—both in recipe and in experience—in order for them to succeed.
“Pebble Beach is famous for golf,” says Jeff Wallace, Director of Food & Beverage at The Lodge at Pebble Beach (one of Pebble Beach Resorts’ three lodging options) in California. “There is no better way to finish a round on Pebble Beach Golf Links, or one of our three other fine courses, than by sipping on one of our signature cocktails while overlooking the 18th green and Stillwater Cove, or listening to the bagpiper at sunset next to the fire pits at Spanish Bay.”
The restaurants at Pebble Beach have a number of signature drinks that follow one special rule: They each boast an intriguing, captivating flavor that cannot easily be replicated.
“If guests want to taste a certain cocktail again, they’ll have to come back,” says Wallace. “And they do.”
A few of the resort’s more unique signature cocktails include the Stillwater Cove Bloody Mary—complete with a snow crab claw and bacon salt rim—as well as The Tap Room’s Birdie Thyme, made with Belvedere Black Raspberry Vodka, fresh blueberries and a sprig of thyme. The two top sellers at Pebble Beach are the Golfer’s Manhattan and Roy’s Pineapple Martini.
“To help with sales, our servers promote all of our signature drinks tableside to our guests,” says Wallace. “We also make sure they look as good as they taste.”
Case in point: Pebble Beach’s Golfers Manhattan is served in a short martini glass with an ice sphere.
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