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This downtown restaurant is mixing Cincinnati chili with whiskey

$8 Manhattan Skyline available at Metropole

Hailey Bollinger, CityBeat SOURCE: Hailey Bollinger, CityBeat
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This downtown restaurant is mixing Cincinnati chili with whiskey

$8 Manhattan Skyline available at Metropole

A downtown Cincinnati restaurant is making a Cincinnati-chili-infused whiskey cocktail. It’s called the Manhattan Skyline, and it's this week’s unique cocktail option at Metropole. Made with Maker’s Mark and housemade Cincinnati-chili-infused bitters, the uniquely Cincinnati drink will cost you $8.Manhattan Skyline is the brainchild of Travis Sallee, Metropole’s mixologist. Sallee came up with the drink last fall after finding postcards with a Cincinnati chili recipe on them. “I feel like whenever people come back, (Cincinnati chili) is the first thing they want to try and it’s just a comforting Cincinnati favorite,” he says. “So I decided to try and make it into bitters and see how it would turn out.”The bitters used in the cocktail are made with “a lot of chili powder, some dark chocolate, cinnamon, cumin, clove, cayenne, a little red wine,” Sallee says.The cocktail will be made available as part of Greater Cincinnati Restaurant Week.Metropole is located at 609 Main Street inside Cincinnati's 21c Museum Hotel.

A downtown Cincinnati restaurant is making a Cincinnati-chili-infused whiskey cocktail.

It’s called the Manhattan Skyline, and it's this week’s unique cocktail option at Metropole.

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Made with Maker’s Mark and housemade Cincinnati-chili-infused bitters, the uniquely Cincinnati drink will cost you $8.

Manhattan Skyline is the brainchild of Travis Sallee, Metropole’s mixologist.

Sallee came up with the drink last fall after finding postcards with a Cincinnati chili recipe on them.

“I feel like whenever people come back, (Cincinnati chili) is the first thing they want to try and it’s just a comforting Cincinnati favorite,” he says. “So I decided to try and make it into bitters and see how it would turn out.”

The bitters used in the cocktail are made with “a lot of chili powder, some dark chocolate, cinnamon, cumin, clove, cayenne, a little red wine,” Sallee says.

The cocktail will be made available as part of Greater Cincinnati Restaurant Week.

Metropole is located at 609 Main Street inside Cincinnati's 21c Museum Hotel.