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Drinks List
Spring Collection
2010

Monday – Saturday 5pm – 1am

113 Lonsdale Street

Melbourne 3000

+61 3 9663 6363

seamstress.com.au

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Light dinner…
Our selection of warm roasted nuts, salt & pepper 5
Sweatshop prawn crackers 5
Crunchy pigs ears lightly coated in our five spice salt 6
Char grilled beef skewers, hoi sin and summer coriander 3.5 ea
Steamed shredded-pork bun, julienne cucumber 3.5 ea
Chairman Ho’s Tsing Tao battered chicken, toasted sesame with 11
mint & chilli dressing
Malay corn fritters of carrot, chilli and spring onion 9
Hand cut wedges, seamstress’ sweetened chilli sauce & sour cream 8
Snake bean & golden sweet kaukau wontons, green pea & 12
coriander puree, tobiko roe
Venison & braised shitake mushroom spring rolls, 11
pearl river vinegar caramel
Caramelised red miso Pin-Tung eggplant on chilli salt tofu 13
& blanched canton greens, toasted sesame seeds
Pan-seared wild harvest scallops stuffed with tailor made XO 15
on poached iceberg lettuce
Vegetarian hokkien noodle wok box... 10
golden egg noodles, spring vegetables, shitake sauce
Not-so-vegetarian hokkien noodle wok box… 12
golden egg noodles, char sui pork, choi sum & shitake sauce
Crispy tempura of king prawn tail, mint & chilli dressing 12
Sharing plate… A selection of our own bar favourites 32

Cheese
Served with homemade quince paste, Lavouche crackers
100g of one $15
120g selection of each $20

Bleu d’Auvergne Central Massif FRANCE

(Strong, blue veined cows cheese)
Onetik Ossau Iraty Basque Region FRANCE
(Creamy, mild & nutty ewes cheese)
Livarot Normandy FRANCE
(Soft, rind washed cows cheese)

Sweets
Coconut, lime & pandan leaf tart with mango sorbet 15
Five spiced chocolate pudding with mandarin parfait and 16
whiskey sabayon
Toasted black seaseme panna cotta, ginger caramel & 16
sweet potato candy
Flourless passionfruit soufflé with white chocolate and 15
black pepper ice cream
Rhubarb and marscapone filled pancakes, crumbed rhubarb 16
candy, pistachio fairy floss with yellow rock sugar ice cream

*** Seamstress would like to remind guests that our dishes may contain traces of nuts
| Beer
James Boags Premium Launceston, TAS 8.0
Heineken Zoeterwoude, HOLL 8.5
James Squire Amber Ale Camperdown, NSW 9.0
Holgate Pilsner Macedon, VIC 9.0
Hawthorn Pale Ale Melbourne, VIC 9.5
Gypsy Pear Cider Moorabbin, VIC 8.5
2 Brothers ‘Growler’ Brown Ale Moorabbin, VIC 9.5
James Boags Light Launceston, TAS 6.0

Wine
Our wine list is forever changing enabling us to bring you
hand-selected wines as we find them but which may
sometimes be unavailable.

Pop
NV Baby Laurent-Perrier (2 glasses)Tours-sur-Marne, FR 38
NV Beresford Sparkling Adelaide Hills, SA 10 / 58
NV Lanson Brut ‘Black Label’ Reims, FR 97
NV Laurent-Perrier Tours-sur-Marne, FR 133
2002 Veuve Clicquot Rose Reims, FR 243

| White Wine
Grove Mill Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough, NZ 9 / 43
Prentice ‘Ramato’ Pinot Gris Whitlands, VIC 9 / 43
Beblenheim Pinot Blanc Alsace, FR 49
Tim Adams Riesling Clare Valley, SA 10 / 48
Bass Strait Gewurztraminer Tamar Valley, TAS 54
Thick as Thieves Arneis Yarra Valley, VIC 60
Chestnut Hill Chardonnay Mornington, VIC 13 / 64
William Nahan Chablis Burgundy, FR 82

Red Wine
Marcus Hill Shiraz Bellarine Pen. VIC 10 / 48
Wild Duck Creek Cab-Merlot Albury, NSW 12 / 58
Diavolo Piccolo Sangiovese Heathcote, VIC 65
Lightfoot & Sons Pinot Noir E.Gippsland, VIC 13 / 63
Patrick ’Home Block’ Cab. Sauv. Coonawarra, SA 72
1769 Pinot Noir Central Otago, NZ 62
Samuels Gorge Tempranillo McLaren Vale, SA 88
La Chappelle Corbieres 01’ Languedoc, FR 98

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Short Drinks in Fancy Glasses
Scorpion 18
Golden rum with brandy, lime juice, fresh orange juice and our French
almond sugar syrup. Shaken ice cold this golden oldie is full bodied
and fruity.

Honeysuckle 17
One of the best forgotten cocktails!
Golden rum, fresh lime juice and Spanish orange blossom honey.
A twist on the ever reliable Daiquiri, very fresh and drinkable.

London Calling 17
London dry gin with fresh lemon juice & sugar syrup,
dried out with a Manzanilla sherry & a couple of dashes of orange
bitters. The perfect-pre dinner drink from Milk & Honey in London.

The Tri-fecta 17
Polish vodka, fresh lime, sugar and elderflower cordial shaken with
cucumber and mint.
A triple hit of fresh flavours combine for a vibrant & racy winner.

Pisco Sour 17
The South American classic. Aromatic Peruvian Pisco brandy
shaken with citrus, cane sugar syrup and egg whites until silky.
Served with an atomised blend of bitters.

Vodka Espresso 17
Our house espresso ‘martini’ made with Polish vodka and a blend of
Toussaint & Kahula coffee liqueurs, Gravity© espresso &
something special. “Something to pick me up, then f*ck me up”

Clover Club 17
A beautiful drink from the 1930’s, Tanqueray Gin with homemade
raspberry syrup, lemon juice and egg whites.
Dry and fruity with a zesty smooth finish.

Brooklyn 17
American rye whiskey stirred through with dry cherry liqueur,
Italian vermouth & Amer Biere bitter orange.
Closely related to the Manhattan this drink is complex but
full of subtlety as well as flavour.

AppleJack Dynamite 19
A very warming cocktail for you.
French apple brandy with maple syrup , fresh citrus juices, and just a
hint of ginger.

*some drinks may contain egg white or nuts, please specify if you have any allergies.
Long Drinks
Peach Blow Fizz 18
Strawberries and cream with London dry gin, fresh lemon juice &
sugar syrup lengthened with ginger beer. This classic Savoy drink
is light & airy, like drinking a strawberry cloud!

Deep-South Smash 18
Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey shaken with white peaches,
pomegranate, young mint tips and lemon juice.

Rum Swizzle 18
Our ‘house grog’ rum blend with fresh lime juice, sugar, bitters and
falernum (W.Indies traditional spiced syrup).
Swizzled into a devastatingly refreshing cooler in a frozen glass

Seamstress Bloody Mary 18

Every couple has their secrets and in this relationship
(that’s you dear drinker and the bartender fixing your drink)
our Bloody Mary recipe is the proverbial garden shed.
It has tomato juice in it, that’s all we’re telling...

Pimms Rangoon 17
A colonial mix of Pimms No.1, London Dry Gin, citrus juices, mint,
cucumber, fresh ginger and strawberries. Served long as a refreshing
escape from the heat of the East Indies.

El Diablo 17
1950’s California gives us ‘The Devil’. Tequila with lime juice,
crème de cassis and lengthened with our blended spicy ginger beer.

Southside Fizz 17
Fragrant Gin with lime, sugar and fresh mint, shaken and served
in a traditional ‘Delmonico’ glass with a squirt of soda.
Like a Mojito but a bit less…hmm, how should we put this…

Penicillin 18
A rapidly spreading favourite on cocktail menus around the world,
created by a Melburnian on safari in NYC. Scotch whisky and a splash
of smoky Islay single malt shaken with lemon, honey syrup and spicy
ginger juice. Good for all that ‘ails you.

Venetian Cooler 17
Inspired by the fantastic ‘Bellini’, we take a local Prosecco
and combine with pureed peaches, pomegranate, lemon and
a splash of sherry.

Bartender’s Choice 16
Every week we put a new drink up on the board.
Something we like, something we think people should be drinking!
The Martini Page…
“I like to have a martini, two at the very most,
after three I'm under the table, after four I'm under my host." – Dorothy Parker

House Style Cheating, and not shaken or stirred…

7:1, French Vermouth, Sicilian olives

Dilution calculated using chilled mineral water, carefully measured, spirit
from the freezer, vermouth from the fridge.
Mixed briefly and served in a frozen glass. Drink quickly.

Our method is not for purists or for those who stand on tradition but is
controlled, consistent, and colder than is possible using any other technique
(excluding the use of liquid nitrogen).

Namesakes
Churchill - A glance in the direction of France is enough vermouth
Montgomery - Vermouth outgunned by gin 15:1
Gibson - 2 plump cocktail onions to represent ‘Gibson’s Girls”
Roosevelt - The original wet and dirty martini
Dukes – Just Gin straight from the freezer, 2 drops of vermouth, lemon twist

Variations
Vespa - Smirnoff Vodka, Tanqueray Gin, Lillet Blanc, twist, shaken 18
Smokey - Dry martini with Islay Malt whisky rinse 19
Flame-of-Love - Dry sherry replaces vermouth with flamed orange zests 18

Our Recommendations
Prices are given for the spirit used for your preference of martini

Gin Vodka
Beefeater 17 Wyborowa 17
Tanqueray 19 Ketel One 18
Plymouth 18 Luksusowa 18
Tanqueray No.Ten 24 Grey Goose 23

Bitters
Until the 1950’s a dash of bitters (particularly orange) were a common
ingredient to martinis. Fashions change but we still think it tastes great.
Some suggestions; Angostura bitters, orange bitters, grapefruit bitters,
rhubarb bitters, Absinthe, Fernet Branca, Peychaud’s bitters, Campari.

Finishing Touches
Your choice of in-house marinated silverskin onions, Sicilian olives,
cucumber, zest of grapefruit, lemon or lime.

Dirty Star-tini’s
We are happy to make your martini ‘dirty’, just tell us how much.
To help, we have developed a proprietary ‘sliding scale’ starting with…

Couple of drops ! Christina

5mls Olive Brine ! Britney
10mls Olive Brine ! Paris
15mls Olive Brine ! Lindsay
20mls Olive Brine ! Courtney
20mls & crushed olives ! Amy Winehouse

“Amy Winehouse is the dirtiest of all the martinis” – Paul Hammond

Just…no
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