Dawn grew up on the Southside of Chicago – ‘in the ghetto,’ as she called it. She moved to New Orleans a few years back and has been a bartender for four years here at the Old Absynthe House located here in the French Quarter on Bourbon Street. She says she’s ’seen it all’ here at the Absynthe, and she has some great stories, thoughts, and cocktail recipes. Make sure you try her Sazerac and Ramos Fizz, and certainly try this recipe that she created for us: the ‘Crescent City Green Dawn.’ Made with 1.5 ounces of Leblon, a half ounce of La Fée Absynthe (which she says is one of the smoothest), and half a lime muddled with 6 square cubes of sugar (and a splash of water). She serves this drink shaken in a rocks glass with crushed ice, and it’s out of this world!
