Competitors in SIP-tember Cocktail Bracket Challenge Unveiled to the Public-Voting is Live Online at www.pasadenarestaurantweek.com/vote

 

64 drinks vie to be named favorite during six-week cocktail bracket challenge throughout Pasadena

Patrons decide which cocktail is Pasadena’s favorite during SIP-tember: a celebration of the cocktail in Pasadena. Through September 25^th, local restaurants will serve cocktails that will be paired against each other in a competition. 64 cocktails, ranging from drinks specially concocted for the competition to margaritas and sangria, begin the competition that lasts six weeks and culminates in a live taste-off of the four drinks that win their bracket.

Brackets were unveiled on the Pasadena Restaurant Week website on Thursday, August 14^th at 2pm. Which drinks will work their way through the

competition for a chance to vie for the title Pasadena’s Favorite Cocktail 2014? Will Roy’s Hawaiian Martini or Speakeasy at New York Deli’s New Old Fashioned make it through to round 2Will Green Street Restaurant’s Broten Buck advance against the ix-tapa Sunrise?? Will the Orange Julius from Clearman’s Galley move forward against SORRISO’s Cantaloupe Martini? Will Vertical Wine Bistro’s Lolita best the Moscow Mule from Kings Row Gastropub? Will the Frozen Hot Chocolate from Bar 1886 at the Raymond prevail over the Spicy mango Smash from Dog Haus Biergarten?

Drinks are chosen completely at random for the pairings. We have been very impressed with the drinks entered in this year’s SIP-tember Cocktail Bracket Challenge. The variety, creativity and skill from all the competitors has really enhanced the level of competition this year. Good luck to all the competitors.

The 64 cocktails competing in 32 brackets will be available for viewing at the Pasadena Restaurant Week website at www.pasadenarestaurantweek.com on Thursday, August 8^th, a week before the competition goes live online.

The first challenge takes place over two weeks and pit 32 pairs of cocktails against each other. Each week following the winners will be paired

head-to-head with another winning cocktail until, on September 25th, the four finalists will be matched in a live tasting at The Rose Bowl in Pasadena to determine Pasadena’s favorite cocktail. Voting in the cocktail bracket challenge went live online on Wednesday, August 15^th.

For SIP-tember, lounges and restaurants have entered specialty cocktails, traditional drinks, margaritas, sangrias, and all manner of mixed drink. The full list of those taking part in SIP-tember and the Citywide Julia Child Cocktail Party can be found at www.pasadenarestaurantweek.com. Voting is live at www.pasadenarestaurantweek.com/vote.

SIP-tember kicked off with a citywide cocktail party to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of  America’s first celebrity chef and Pasadena’s own Julia Child. Patrons were encouraged to dress for a 1950s, 1960s or 1970s era cocktail party.