Peruvian Cuisine & Pisco Mixology in San Francisco
Pisco Yerba Buena
Imagine that you are a mixologist in the late 1800’s and just sampled some of Duncan Nicol’s famous Pisco Punch at the Bank Exchange on Montgomery Street in San Francisco. You are inspired and want to create a Pisco cocktail that pays homage to the Pisco Punch and to San Francisco. But you want it to be different and meaningful. What ingredients would you use?
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Pisco Punch, Born in San Francisco
The Pisco Punch is one of the most important cocktails in the history of San Francisco. It was created over 100 years ago by Duncan Nicol at the Bank Exchange bar on Montgomery Street where the Transamerica Pyramid now stands. And from the late 1800’s, through the Great Earthquake of 1906, until the beginning of Prohibition, the Pisco Punch helped define the culinary identity of San Francisco.
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House of Pisco Punch, San Francisco circa 1893. (Roy D. Graves Pictorial Collection, The California Digital Library Online Archive)
Today, Pisco is quickly becoming one of the most popular spirits in the United States and you can order a Pisco cocktail at several bars in San Francisco. But did you know that Pisco was also all the rage during the 1848 Gold Rush in San Francisco?
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