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Tony Roehr
With indoor bars being closed, quarantine could be considered a quasi-Prohibition. How fitting to find myself at the speakeasy Raised by Wolves, where bartender Tony Roehr is prepping their newest cocktail menu.
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4301 La Jolla Village Drive #2030, San Diego
The Uno Ojo, he tells me, uses a lightly aged dry sherry as its special ingredient. “It gives off this deep nuttiness in the background. Mixing that with blanco tequila, cucumber, some ginger, some citrus, and putting it on nice crushed ice kind of an adult snow cone of sorts.”
Roehr champions the revival of sherry. “It’s one of my favorite ingredients to put in cocktails. I think the clientele in La Jolla is not used to seeing sherry in cocktails and I really want to introduce that to them. Most people hear ‘sherry’ and they think cooking wine, and there’s just so much more that you can do.”