Come to Casa Chow for the bar’s meticulous cocktails powered by pisco and rum. Stick around to soak up the bouncy beats and enjoy the oh-so-snackable Chino-Latino eats.
Casa Chow is quickly – and correctly – becoming known for its Latino-leaning cocktails with a strong focus on pisco, Peru’s brandy-like spirit, as well as rum. You’ll find a carefully chosen list of each along with tequilas and mezcals, whiskies and gins. Among the signature cocktails, the Plum Pisco Negroni is zinged up with an Aussie-made Davidson plum liqueur, while the Kong Tiki mixes two varieties of Plantation rum with an allspice-laced Pimento Dram rum liqueur, a sweet Chinese five-spice syrup, rambutan, lime and guava soda. There’s a solid collection of non-alcoholic choices on offer, such as a zero-proof take on the Mojito, the Dragon Fruit Fauxito, made with Lyle’s no-alcohol white cane spirit, lime, mint and soda. If you’re just here for one, make it count and try the Classic OG Pisco Sour, a tangy blend of pisco, lime and bitters.
On tap, the Latin-style rice beer from Brisbane brewery Aether chimes nicely with the Peruvian theme. Wines, meanwhile, are largely local with a showing from Argentina and handily sorted by texture.
On Friday and Saturday afternoons, Casa Chow does Rum Cha, with roving rum carts dispensing Plantation rum cocktails and yum cha classics spiced up with Peruvian flair – fun and a bit fancy.
For a vino adventure, the Riccitelli “Old Vines” Pinot Noir ($180) is a chance to try a special wine from Argentina’s Patagonia region in the very south of the Latin continent.
