Lonesome Dove: The Roosevelt Room Paloma

Name: Lonesome Dove: The Roosevelt Room Paloma
Yield: 10
Cuisine: American

Recipe: Dennis Gobis and Justin Lavenue , The Roosevelt Room , Austin

Photo: Eric Medsker

April 12, 2024

Justin Lavenue, owner of The Roosevelt Room in Austin, calls this Paloma “the sultry cousin of the classic.” Created for the opening menu of the Roosevelt Room in 2015, the cocktail is imbued with the warmth of cinnamon spice and vanilla notes.

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz. blanco tequila
1 oz. grapefruit juice
1/2 oz. fresh lime juice
1/2 oz. cinnamon syrup
2 dashes vanilla extract
1 dash salt tincture or saline solution (1:10)

Tools:shaker, strainer
Glass:hurricane
Garnish:cinnamon powder, 3 spritzes of rose water, red rose petal

Preparation

Add all of the ingredients to a shaker with ice and shake for 5 seconds. Strain over crushed ice in a glass. Insert a metal straw and top with more crushed ice, making a small mound. Give the top of the cocktail three spritzes of rose water, sprinkle some cinnamon powder across its surface, and garnish with a couple of red rose petals.

Salt TinctureThe Roosevelt Room dissolves 1 part fine grain Himalayan salt into 5 parts water and then adds 5 parts vodka to stabilize the mixture. “But, home bartenders can mix 1 part salt into 10 parts water and it will have the same effect,” says Lavenue.