All photos by Maggie DeWitt.
We here at Belle Isle Moonshine have a lot of amazing friends and restaurant partners all over the country, and we want everyone to love them as much as we do. In our new journal series, ‘Shine Spotlight, we’re showcasing the people (and cocktails!) that make these places so great! First up: Deanie’s Sea Food Kitchen in New Orleans!
With more than 50 years as a New Orleans institution, Deanie’s is no spring chicken. For the past five decades, Deanie’s has been serving up some of the best seafood in a town known for world-class seafood. Owner and General Manager Chandra Chifici-Scarber, whose family has owned Deanie’s for 36 years, says the restaurants aim to be a welcoming place where everyone feels like family.
“We make it a point to always have at least one of us from the family at each location on a daily basis,” Chifici-Scarber explains. “We believe that when people come in to see us, they are dining at our family table.”
Deanie’s opened its newest location on bustling Magazine Street back in June, bringing the Garden District some serious Cajun cuisine – and equally impressive Belle Isle cocktails! If you’re in The Big Easy, head to the new Deanie’s and let bartender Eric whip you up something from their Belle Isle featured cocktail menu!
Check out the recipe for the Deanie’s Ruby Spritzer below!
RUBY SPRITZER
Ingredients:
2 oz. Belle Isle Ruby Red Grapefruit
3 ½ oz. dry rosé
½ oz. elderflower liqueur
Preparation:
Add all ingredients to a mixing tin over ice. Shake and strain into a martini or wine glass.
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Belle Isle Moonshine is a premium, handcrafted spirit proudly hailing from Richmond, Virginia.
We take the name Belle Isle from a small, 540-acre island located smack dab in the middle of the James River where Civil War soldiers used surplus corn rations to make moonshine in copper kettles.
Belle Isle Moonshine is distilled from 100% organic corn, grown by three family farms and responsibly sourced. Once triple-distilled, we charcoal filter Belle Isle four times over. Then, we cut it with purified water right from the James River. Our infusions are made with 100% real ingredients, never artificial flavors or color. We use real grapefruits sourced from Texas and California, local honey from the Shenandoah Valley, organic habaneros grown an hour away, and freshly roasted coffee beans from the most socially conscious roastery in Richmond, Blanchard's Coffee Roasting Co.
From there, each bottle of Belle Isle Moonshine is filled, corked, labeled, and packed by hand by our Production team, who check each bottle and batch for quality assurance. Since Belle Isle is made in small batches, you can find the batch number handwritten in the bottom right corner of each bottle.
Distilled from good times and 100% organic corn.