{"id":240397,"date":"2026-04-21T14:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240397\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:36:08","slug":"st-petersburg-distillery-and-twisted-indian-host-weekly-sunday-brunch-with-indian-fusion-craft-cocktails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240397\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg Distillery and Twisted Indian host weekly Sunday brunch with Indian fusion & craft cocktails"},"content":{"rendered":"

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St. Petersburg\u2019s best Indian food and Florida\u2019s top craft distillery walk into a Sunday brunch, and no, this isn\u2019t the setup to a joke. It\u2019s the best thing to happen to your weekends since someone invented sleeping in.<\/p>\n

St. Petersburg Distillery, the family-owned craft spirit operation at 800 31st St. S., has teamed up with The Twisted Indian for a weekly collaboration called St. Petersburg Distillery Gets Twisted. Every Sunday from 11 am to 2 pm, the distillery\u2019s relaxed outdoor setting fills with Twisted Indian\u2019s brunch menu and specially crafted cocktails, including a Mango Lassi cocktail made specifically for this pairing. The distillery\u2019s new spring cocktail menu is also on offer, because apparently just the Mango Lassi wouldn\u2019t have been enough of a reason to show up.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be clear about what we\u2019re dealing with here. The St. Petersburg Distillery<\/a> isn\u2019t some weekend hobby project that two guys started in a garage after watching too many cooking shows. It\u2019s a high-quality operation that\u2019s been crafting small-batch, award-winning spirits since 2014, using locally sourced Florida ingredients to produce whiskey, rum, gin, and vodka with a level of care that frankly makes you feel a little guilty about your last liquor store run.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s The Twisted Indian<\/a>. Chef and owner Lokesh Vale has spent years redefining what Indian food can look like in St. Pete, and the answer, it turns out, is spectacular. His menu is a love letter to bold Indian flavors filtered through an unapologetically American lens, featuring Bollywood Bowls, Naanwiches, Ginger Garlic Naan, and enough other options to make your first visit almost certainly the start of a regular habit.<\/p>\n

\"Bottles\"BottlesPhoto via St. Petersburg Distillery<\/p>\n

Match made in heaven<\/p>\n

These two St. Pete staples share a Sunday together, and the pairing makes so much sense it almost feels like someone should\u2019ve done it sooner. The Twisted Indian\u2019s bold, complex flavors and St. Petersburg Distillery\u2019s handcrafted cocktails aren\u2019t just complementary, they\u2019re practically finishing each other\u2019s sentences. The spice and richness of Vale\u2019s cooking finds a worthy match in the distillery\u2019s carefully crafted pours, and you\u2019ll probably finish your Mango Lassi wondering how this wasn\u2019t always a thing.<\/p>\n

There are also lawn games, including Twister, which means that at a place literally called \u201cGets Twisted,\u201d they\u2019ve set up an honest-to-goodness game of Twister on the lawn. That\u2019s either the best branding decision anyone\u2019s made this year, or a very happy accident. Either way, it works.<\/p>\n

Head to the distillery every Sunday from 11 am to 2 pm. It\u2019s local, it\u2019s casual, it\u2019s outdoors, and your Sunday brunch plans just got considerably more interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg\u2019s best Indian food and Florida\u2019s top craft distillery walk into a Sunday brunch, and no, this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-240397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}