The Sugar House

Sugar House is sort of my take on a classic saloon. We have a seasonal menu, so a lot of the drinks change quarterly. But we also have a standard list of 101 drinks. All of the ingredients in all of the cocktails, other than, say, lemons and limes, are grown or sourced in Michigan. The Sassafras Old Fashioned. It’s made with a whiskey from the local Long Road Distillers that uses 100% Michigan wheat. We mix in housemade cherry bitters, a recipe that took me two years to develop, made from three types of Michigan cherries. And then a Michigan buckwheat-honey sassafras syrup.