The highlight of this past weekend was a trip to The Farmers' Cabinet for evening cocktails on Saturday night. Well, cocktails for me and a couple of beers for D, but you get the gist. Though we opted to just sit at the bar and have drinks, The Farmers' Cabinet also offers a full food menu, which features many locally and/or sustainably farmed ingredients.
The ambience is great -- the space is lit with flickering candles and oil lamps, the walls are covered in wood paneling, and it all has a sort-of Victorian-era hunting lodge feel what with a number of animals (or animal bits) mounted on the walls, including a pheasant, bison head, and caribou antlers, along with a bear skin rug strewn atop a piano.
The drink menu is quite a tome. This is not the place to go for a Red Bull and vodka, though if you do order such a thing, the white shirt and black-suspender clad barman will come up with a substitute made from a variety of syrups, juices, and tinctures.
I started my night out with a rum collins. Along with rum, this drink featured lemon, sugar, orange bitters, soda, and an orange twist.
My second drink of the night was my favorite. Called "The Arms of York," this cocktail featured vodka, orange curacao, Meyer lemon curd, narcissus bitters, vanilla tincture, lemon, and sugar. It was so, so good. And now I know exactly what I need to do with my Meyer lemons!
The dessert menu had several tasty-sounding items, and the one that caught both our eyes was the offering of donuts and coffee. So, once we got home, I whipped up a quick batch of baked cinnamon-sugar donuts, and we shared the plateful alongside a mug each of French press coffee. The perfect ending to a fun night out!
The Details:
1113 Walnut Street, Philadelphia
215.923.1113
Hours: M-F 3p - 2a; Sa-Su 11:30a - 2a
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