Green Sunshine

Cocktail Correspondent: Weldon Gardner Hunter

Thursday, May 30: People in Vancouver have been griping about the May weather. Too overcast, too cool, too rainy, they say. Off with their heads! I love the melancholy greys, join my club.

Nonetheless, the sun peeked out on this late May day, as if to ask, "Is it ok if I come out?" 

If that shy spring sun wanted a cocktail, I would advise it to order the Japanese Slipper at Mum's The Word (1301 Commercial Drive, Vancouver). MTW is a lively place which operates as a coffee bar during the day, and a vivacious tavern from about 2pm onwards.  Coffee and cocktails. Mix and match 70s furniture, love seats. Countered with a sensible bar and a sometimes-sunny patio space. It's the new breed of lounges: I can swing by, open my laptop and work on a lesson plan about how to write summaries while I drink a $5 Happy Hour beer, or the aforementioned fruity spring concoction:

Japanese Slipper: Gordon's Gin, Midori, Triple Sec, Lemon, Maraschino Cherry

That's Simpsons-Nuclear-Plant Green. That's a Lime-Crush-on-a-May-day-in-1985, reading-a-comic-book-under-a-spruce-tree-in-Coronation-Park-in-Red-Deer-Alberta-Green. In summary, it's lime and melon bumping into some gin and lemon on a spring day where they found themselves out on the Drive as the weather shifts and our peasant souls drift out of doors like chlorophyll colouring a Cottonwood. 

It's tangy and tart and fruity as a Toucan, are you afraid of that? If you are, you may as well be afraid of the sun.