“Just sit right back And you’ll hear a tale A tale of a tasty drink, That started from a tropic restaurant, And not a tiny ship.” This is actually the tale of the Ginger & Gilligan, a fun and spicy
“Just sit right back
And you’ll hear a tale
A tale of a tasty drink,
That started from a tropic restaurant,
And not a tiny ship.”
This is actually the tale of the Ginger & Gilligan, a fun and spicy drink served up at Mediterranean Gourmet.
Named in honor of the filming of “Gilligan’s Island” on Kauai (the pilot and first episode were filmed here in 1963), the tropical drink just might inspire one to take a three-hour dinner tour.
The Ginger & Gilligan ($9) is made with fresh ginger and cucumber, muddled with lemon, and shaken with Russian Standard Vodka. A splash of lemonade adds a bit of sweetness.
“It’s really refreshing,” promised owner Yarrow Beydoun. “Russian Standard Vodka is a top-shelf vodka that allows those flavors to shine through.”
Beydoun was right. The Ginger & Gilligan packs some heat from the fresh ginger, and the vodka certainly made itself known. But those flavors were cooled nicely by the cucumber and lemonade.
It was so good, I was tempted to munch on the muddled cucumber left in the bottom of the glass when the drink was gone.
Maybe not as classy as Ginger — but somehow I don’t think Gilligan would have minded.
