Tart me up

Hey, whaddaya know: Sambar’s Barbapapa is the featured cocktail in today's Seattle Times Food & Wine section. This, for my money, is the best drink in the city*. Their description is not very accurate, though (“girly sensibility”? I think not!). The drink is nowhere near as sweet (nor as pink) as they make it sound. It's actually very tart and bracing, although the dissolving sorbet does slowly sweeten the drink as you go. It does not, however, go down fast like a Cosmo.

The only Seattle cocktail I can think of that bests the Barbapapa for tartness is the Paradigm Shift at Oliver’s — another zinger I highly recommend.

*Maus contends that my New Year's hangover might have been averted had I not prefaced my champagne binge with one of these cocktails. Me, I'm pretty sure it was the bubbly's work alone, and no fault of the faithful and forgiving Barbapapa.