
Courtesy of Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts
“Nektar” is presented in a bee-shaped glass; inspired by the Silk Road, “Cyrus” features vodka, Iranian black lemon powder, and Lillet, a wine-based citrus aperitif.
Mar 22, 2018
Courtesy of Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts
At the Shangri-La Hotel’s Le Bar Botaniste, head barman Clement Emery spent nine months dreaming up a dazzling new menu of travel-inspired potables.
If you were to find yourself in the fabled Shangri-La, you might expect that paradisiacal valley to be filled with exotic herbs and flowers. And you might also expect to find a mysterious apothecary shop there, where a wise and ancient shaman turns the essences of those botanical gifts into elixirs, tonics, tinctures, and a really kick-ass negroni. Well, maybe that’s just our personal Shangri-La.
In Paris, at that fabled city’s Shangri-La Hotel, you will find such a Valhalla of Vegetation. The hotel’s Le Bar Botaniste—named in honor of the former owner of the building, renowned botanist and Napoleonic nephew Prince Roland Bonaparte—has committed to living up to its moniker.
Head barman Clement Emery has unveiled a cocktail menu created over the past year that reads like the supplements aisle of a natural foods store. It features drinks containing Malabar white pepper, Aomori black garlic, Sicilian sumac, Kentucky tobacco, curry plant, calamansi, pistachio sap, and sweet clover. Emery designed the menu like a travel journal; like Bonaparte before him, he has hunted down the rarest herbs and plants from around the world, made careful notes on their aromas and flavors, and preserved them in alcohol.Sign up for the Daily Wander newsletter for expert travel inspiration and tips
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