{"id":150923,"date":"2026-03-03T13:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/150923\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T13:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:28:16","slug":"menu-of-the-month-seed-library-nyc-drinks-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/150923\/","title":{"rendered":"Menu of the month: Seed Library NYC &#8211; Drinks International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founder Ryan Chetiyawardana explains: \u201cThere were certain things that we knew we wanted to transport from London, but a lot of it has been about embracing where we are. We haven\u2019t necessarily changed the profile of the drinks \u2013 what we try to do is have clarity of flavour and clarity about where something hits emotionally, and that\u2019s a human thing that doesn\u2019t change with the market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we do want to look at how ingredients vary. We experienced this when we opened Silver Lyan in Washington DC. An ingredient like corn was very different in the Americas to what we have in the UK \u2013 we want to embrace those differences. Apples in the US, and particularly in New York, are very different, and apples have featured a lot on the new menu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve done a fermentation on some carrots, and we know what kind of thing is going to happen there through experiments in London, but in a new place with a different product, there will be some differences, and so we balance to the locality. That\u2019s where the philosophy of Seed Library gave us so much room to explore. It allows us to tap into a sense of place, but it also allows us to explore these things without having to be New Yorkers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>C.R.E.A.M Margarita<\/p>\n<p>The C.R.E.A.M Margarita is a Seed Library classic that has been reimagined through a New York lens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe C.R.E.A.M Margarita in London is essentially a Milk Punch Margarita brightened with champagne. The NYC one takes a different approach by fermenting cream and passion fruit separately using different strains of lactobacillus and champagne yeast over three days,\u201d says Mr Lyan venues managing director, Alex Lawrence Milia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s basically a fermented creamy Spicy Marg, it has more texture than its counterpart in London and pushes fruity spice instead of more of a pure bright note.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis ferment we nickname ATOM [which stands for \u2018a ton of microorganisms\u2019], and it\u2019s essentially a ferment of a ferment. We\u2019ve used it widely across the company recently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Seed_Library_NYC_Cream_Marg_570.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lalo Tequila, mezcal, chilli &amp; passion fruit ATOM, lime, clarified cream<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Blue Hill 75<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Seed_Library_NYC_Blue_Hill_75_Firefly_570.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hendrick\u2019s Gin, fermented purple carrot, champagne<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shepherd\u2019s Delight<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Seed_Library_NYC_Shepherds_Delight_570.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Renais Gin, Maker\u2019s Mark, enzymed Concord grape, raspberry, lemon<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thai Basil Vodka Soda<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Seed_Library_NYC_Thai_Basil_vodka_soda_570.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Belvedere, Thai basil, soda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Founder Ryan Chetiyawardana explains: \u201cThere were certain things that we knew we wanted to transport from London, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[63118,21114,63117,19709,63127,63122,63125,93,63120,9,63126,56,63,65,64,63123,62604,21138,63124,21294,63114,63121,63116,63115,63119],"class_list":["post-150923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-centres","tag-exploration","tag-flavour","tag-library","tag-library-new-york","tag-london-sibling","tag-london-sibling-8217","tag-new","tag-new-surroundings","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-takes","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nyc-seed-library","tag-seed","tag-seed-library","tag-seed-library-new","tag-sense","tag-sibling","tag-sibling-8217","tag-surroundings","tag-takes","tag-york-takes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}