Brooklyn-based Grand Army bar has unveiled its latest spring/summer cocktail menu, which is a nod to the famed Nashville music institution
Grand Army, the Boerum Hill bar that’s become something of a Brooklyn institution over the last few years, has unveiled its latest spring/summer cocktail menu, Grand Ole Army. Explained as an ode to the iconic Nashville music venue, the Grand Ole Opry, the latest bi-annual update winks at that musical new and old.
The new Grand Ole Army menu features 10 cocktails created by head bartender Patty Dennison and the rest of the bar team. Included on the list is one shot, one frozen drink, and two alcohol-free options, as well as a mix of mezcal, passionfruit, cachaça, and other warm weather-oriented flavors.
The Grand Ole Army cocktail menu includes:
- Ain’t Woman Enough: mezcal highball highlighting woman-made spirits
- Backwoods Barbie: summer martini with notes of cucumber and melon
- Bless Your Heart (shot): a chilled, dill-infused tequila shot
- Clothes Fall Off: GA’s ever-present spicy marg, now with more mango
- Folsom Prison Blues: toasted coconut coffee Old Fashioned
- Gully Jumper: tropical mojito variation with pineapple and peppercorn
- Highway Man (n/a): herbaceous, soba tea milk punch w/ hints of lemongrass
- Kiss an Angel (n/a): orange passionfruit ancho chili soda of the summer
- National Barn Dance: a white mezcal negroni for warm weather
- Rhinestone Cowboy (frozen): rum and cachaça-based strawberry banana frozen (with option to add a float)
To go with the spring/summer release, Dennison updated the menu’s “greatest hits” section, which features a selection of the most popular drinks created by the staff since the bar opened in May 2015. New additions include the “Whisper Sweet Words,” a shaken gin cocktail from the Townes Van Zandt menu (fall 2018), and the “Spring Sazerac #3” from the Pink Drinks menu of 2016.
As always, the menu features custom art, including mad libs of classic country songs. The full menu will be available from today until early fall, generally at some point in October.
Additionally, a new chef, Patrick McLaughlin–previously of Katana Kitten, Mimi, and Hudson & Charles–has taken over the food side. McLaughlin has given the seafood-focused food menu a refresh for spring and summer, incuding a warm miso crab corn dip, a new house ceviche, shrimp tacos, five spice sticky ribs, and a niçoise salad with tinned fish.
Previous menu motifs include Summer Camp, Spice Girls, Cats, Nicolas Cage, Gilmore Girls, Sade, monster trucks, political scandals, Scandinavian heavy metal, gemstones, and state parks of Oklahoma.
Grand Army is open daily at 336 State Street. For more information, head over to the official website.
Other new addition to Brooklyn’s continuously growing nightlife scene include, Bar Madonna.