Ahead of National Negroni Week, Melbourne restaurant Uncle has decided to combine two on-trend items to make a Pho-groni, a fucking Negroni-meets-Pho.
Bloody mixologists.
To be fair, it’s no where as terrible as it sounds. Rather than, you know, literally mixing vermouth, gin and Campari with a shot of pho water, Uncle manager Pete Siganto was ‘inspired’ by pho flavours. It’s still hard to not think of it as ‘hot beef water’, though.
To make the batch of Pho-groni, Pete has soaked the gin in a spice mix of ginger, toasted star anise and coriander seeds for 30 hours to give it those winter-warming notes. It’s served with holy basil and a lemon twist, which honestly sounds pretty good. Or, at least, ‘worth trying.’
We can feel your curiosity rising from here, though there’s one sour note: the bottle costs $21.50. That’s about the price of a Pho and a Negroni combined, though $1 from each sale does go to The Lighthouse Foundation.
You’ll have to wait until Negroni week, starting on the 5th of June, to try it – and we strongly advise you don’t make your own.
Source: TheUrbanList.com
