Q&A Featuring: Brian Means, Partner
Super Jugoso: Describe your bar in less than two sentences -- feel free to have fun with it.
Brian Means: Kona's Street Market is a cocktail bar that focuses on flavors from global street markets. We base the menu on our travels and hope guests will connect with those flavors.
SJ: What is your current favorite drink on the menu (doesn’t have to be a cocktail)?
BM: The Boracay Old Fashioned. It's unique, yet stays true to the bones of a classic old fashioned. It balances the buttery notes from the pandan-infused gin, grassiness from the blanc vermouth, and amazing aromatics from the bay leaf and makrut lime.
Boracay Old Fashioned
1.5 oz. pandan-infused Bombay Sapphire East gin
.75 oz. Dolin blanc vermouth
.25 oz. bay leaf syrup
2 dashes makrut lime bitters
- Combine ingredients in a mixing tin then add cubed ice
- Throw drink 4 times between tins
- Strain over a large ice cube in an old fashioned glass
- Garnish with a wheel of calamansi
SJ: What is your current favorite drink on the menu that incorporates a Super Jugoso product?
BM: I'm a big fan of the "Save Me A Piece Of That Corn" -- inspired by atole de elote. The SJ atole de elote carries so much corn flavor and has the texture you associate with drinking traditional atole de elote. We also use SJ horchata for sweetness and notes of brown sugar.
Save Me A Piece Of That Corn
1.5 oz. Espolon blanco tequila
.25 oz. Velvet Falernum
.25 oz. Averna Amaro
.5 oz. orange juice
1 oz. Super Jugoso horchata
1 oz. Super Jugoso atole de elote
- Combine ingredients in a mixing tin then add 1 scoop of cobble ice
- Shake 5-6 times and dump into Collins glass
- Top with cobble ice
- Garnish with blue cornflowers, dehydrated butter powder, cinnamon powder, and a pinch of annatto powder
SJ: What is something you wish more people knew about your bar?
BM: We opened during the pandemic, and while people are still coming back to the neighborhood (so they're just discovering us) Kona’s is a neighborhood cocktail bar and we’re excited to show our guests that kind of hospitality.
SJ: Do you have a favorite Super Jugoso product?
BM: I have to mention two products: the horchata, because it's amazing in cocktails AND on its own. And that Coconut Cream… oooooh boy, hands down the best coconut cream I’ve ever had. The texture is rich and the coconut flavors pulls through, where other brands just fall short. Makes the best pina colada.
SJ: When can people come visit you?
BM: Kona's Street Market is open:
- Tuesday-Thursday: 3pm-10pm
- Friday: 3pm-11pm
- Saturday: 6pm-11pm