Mike's Mix: 'El Macho' From Punch Bowl Social

Each week, Mike Augustyniak finds a new cocktail from a local mixologist. This week, he checks out Punch Bowl Social: a fun concept in an industrial chic space in St. Louis Park -- which has cocktails worthy of Mike's Mix!

El Macho

1 ½ oz Camarena Reposado Tequila
4 cucumber slices
¾ oz fresh-squeezed lime juice
¾ oz house-made cardamom syrup*

* To make cardamom syrup: combine 1 ⅓ cup of both sugar and water with 1 teaspoon of ground cardamom in a sauce pan; and simmer until sugar dissolves. Let syrup cool and then strain liquid through a cheesecloth.

Instructions:

Put all ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake to combine. Double-strain, using a fine-mesh tea strainer, into a stemmed glass.

Punch Bowl Social combines scratch cooking, old- and new-school cocktails and classic games under one roof in the Shops at West End in St. Louis Park.