Scout Magazine - The Vancouver Cocktail
In 2006, a modern-day sporting gentleman by the name of Joe Bates sat down in front of bartender Steve da Cruz at the Sylvia Hotel and single-handedly re-birthed the Vancouver Cocktail. Da Cruz made it his mission to spread the gospel of the cocktail throughout the beverage world, which he did quite successfully. The cocktail can now be made at any decent drinks den in the province and has been placed on menus around the world.
But, nearly fifteen years after it rose from the ashes, it turns out we’ve been making it wrong.