‘Spider-man’s’ Tom Holland’s favorite drink was beer, but now ‘Avengers’ co-director Joe Russo has i
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(19 Dec 2018) 'SPIDER-MAN'S' TOM HOLLAND'S FAVORITE DRINK WAS BEER, BUT NOW 'AVENGERS' CO-DIRECTOR JOE RUSSO HAS INTRODUCED HIM TO A SMOKY BOURBON
When it comes to alcoholic beverages, British Spider-man actor Tom Holland is a beer guy. The 22 year-old actor loves a good pale ale, porter and most recently IPAs.
However, his friend and "Avengers" co-director Joe Russo recently introduced him to a tasty smoky bourbon.
Russo owns a Los Angeles restaurant called Simone with Jessica Largey, a James Beard Award winner. That's why he also knows a thing or two about great food and delicious cocktails. He's so serious about finding the best chefs, food and restaurants that he flew a mixologist from Scotland to take over his cocktail menu for his restaurant.
While shooting one of the "Avengers" films, he and his wife found themselves in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he discovered a bar called Panda and Sons where Iain McPherson worked.
"My wife and I fell in love with it and every time we went back to Edinburgh, we would go quite often, we would go to Panda and Sons and it became a sort of regular thing with us," said Russo. "I met Iain and then when we were putting together Simone, we decided we wanted to put a cocktail and bar at the front of the restaurant so that when you entered in the front of the restaurant, you would enter into the cocktail bar and have a cocktail experience before you go eat in the restaurant. And I wanted the best in the world to work with Jessica (Largey) who is an incredible chef, so we needed to make sure that we had someone of Iain's quality that could do a great job of not only bringing unique drinks to Los Angeles, but also complementing Jess' amazing food."
Russo invited his Spider-man friend Tom Holland to the restaurant to try some food along with his all-time favorite cocktail called Homeward Bound.
It's made with bourbon, cocoa butter, sassafras, Pedro Ximénez sherry and vanilla cherry oak smoke.
"It's an amazing combination of aromatics and alcohol so you're getting two different sense experiences while you're drinking it. It's pretty incredible. You're using your nose and you're using your taste buds so it's a really fascinating drink," said Russo.
Holland helped make the cocktail with real smoke, slowly took a sip and realized why Russo was such a fan.
"Yeah that's really good. Oh, that's amazing," said Holland.
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