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South Park Sling

3⁄4 oz Gin
1⁄2 oz Cherry Liqueur, Cherry Heering
1 t Passion fruit syrup
3⁄4 oz Aperol
3⁄4 oz Cynar
3⁄4 oz Lime juice
3⁄4 oz Pineapple juice
1 oz Club soda
2 ds Bitters, Angostura (coffee infused)
1 sli Orange (half wheel)
3 spg Mint
Instructions

In a shaker, combine ingredients except club soda and garnish. Add ice, shake vigorously, then add the club soda to the shaker before straining into an ice-filled highball glass. Garnish with mint sprigs and orange wheel.

Notes

While the book calls for 4 dashes of coffee-infused Angostura, this is with Japanese dasher bottles, which dispense less than half a normal dash. Therefore, 2 dashes are used here.

Curation Note: From 2019 until 7/14/26 this recipe was erroneously given as: 1.5 gin, 1/2 Cherry Heering, 1/2 passion fruit syrup, 1/4 Aperol, 1/4 Cynar, 3/4 lime juice, 2 pineapple juice, 2 dashes cherry bark vanilla bitters, w/pineapple slice garnish, and 3 cherries. I am only providing this information for those who are looking for the "old KC" version of this.

Cocktail summary
Created by
The Nomad Bar, Los Angeles, CA
Year
2018
Is an
authentic recipe
Reference

The Nomad Cocktail Book, Leo Robitschek, 2019, pg. 105

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  • Sub’ed Averna for Cynar and pineapple syrup for passion fruit syrup. 2 drops of homemade bitters (next try 3). Quite sweet, maybe try without syrup. — ★★★★
  • Subbed Luxardo + 1 bsp amarena syrup for Heering, 2 ds Peruvian bitters, 2 ds Brazilian Bitters (didn’t have cherry bark vanilla), Cappelletti for Aperol. Love the balance of acidity, bitter, & sweet! — ★★★★★
  • This was a treat. Made it with Drumshanbo and whiskey bitters since that is what I had. Would be curious to try it with a less lush gin. Well balanced and distinctive.
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Comments
drinkingandthinking commented on 3/13/2026:

Tastes wonderful, but I sure would like to get mine to look like that picture... my color was amber from pineapple - not much red in the ingredients...

Shawn C commented on 7/14/2026:

I am looking at *heavily* curating this. Several have noted that the picture doesn't look like the cocktail (and it doesn't look like what I made from the actual Nomad recipe), so I plan to remove it. The link to the old menu doesn't work and just goes to the page for Nomad in London, so I will use the Nomad Cocktail Book recipe for it (page 105) instead. The recipe above, published on KC in 2019, is considerably altered from that published in the book in 2019. Quantities of gin, passion fruit syrup, Aperol, Cynar, and pineapple juice are all way off. The garnish is different, and most importantly the bitters are of the wrong type (should be coffee infused Angostura, not cherry bark vanilla bitters.) Also, the club soda has been omitted entirely. I don't know if the drink was rejiggered just before the book was published, but something is way off--and an old LA menu link I found agrees with the book on ingredients.

yarm commented on 7/14/2026:

I'd swap in the book recipe as it is more reliable and edited by the bar team. I have definitely seen photos in books that have been off in color or garnish though.

Shawn C commented on 7/15/2026:

All edited now. I retained the prior version in the notes, so that anyone that wants that has access to it.