-We're here with Nico de Soto, bartender and owner of Bar Mace
here in New York City. Thank you for being here.
-Thanks for having me. Hello.
-And his pop-up cocktail bar miracle is open now.
And we're gonna make some holiday-themed cocktails.
And this is -- This is a pop-up in 50 locations
around the world right now. -51 location right now.
-51, Very exciting. -Yeah, yeah.
We started with Mace and while waiting for the construction,
doing like just a little pop-up for December to have
a little bit of fun. Then it became massive.
We have a line of, like, hundred people --
hundred meters of people waiting to get in.
And then we decided to -- why not, like, sending the concept
to, like, different location? And yeah, this year it's like
51 locations. Like, China and Brazil.
-And these are holiday-themed cocktails
with very inspired names. -Yeah.
So, we chose the name. I mean, the name sometimes is
only really from the ingredients,
but the point was, like, to have fun Christmas name
and Christmas ingredients. -Okay.
-Like spices, pumpkin, all that stuff you know, like --
-All right, so what are we making first?
-So first we're gonna do like a -- I'll shoot your rye out.
-I'll shoot your eye out from "A Christmas Story."
But I'll shoot your rye out. I'll shoot your rye out.
That's very good. Okay, great.
-So that's going to be -- like, there's going to be
a pumpkin spice. -Okay.
-The rye -- We infuse rye whiskey with pumpkin spice.
We would then do together a Budweiser marshmallow syrup.
-Budweiser marshmallow Syrup. Excellent.
-The point is like -- [ Laughter ]
Let's not do that. Like, the point is to take
the Budweiser, we're gonna simmer it a little bit
to lose the alcohol and lose the bubbles.
You guys going to help me?
-What is Budweiser without alcohol and bubbles?
It's just water, right?
[ Laughter ]
-You have the malt. You have the malt.
-The malt. Oh, wow. That's the best part.
Okay.
So, I'm going to put the Budweiser here.
-Okay. -You can help me.
You have the fluff. The -- the marshmallow.
-Yeah, the marshmallow fluff. Great.
-I put the sugar here. And if you can put the pumpkin?
-Me? -Yes.
You don't just get to stand here and do nothing.
-Okay. [ Light laughter ]
-All right. I start with the --
The spoon is here.
And for you, you have that. It's going to be easier to --
-Wait for the Budweiser, though?
-I'm going to -- yeah, because it has to --
-Fresh pumpkin or canned? -It's canned pumpkin.
-Canned -- -Oh, man.
That is so embarrassing to bring canned pumpkin to a
Martha Stewart party! [ Laughter ]
-51 location. -Oh, my God!
51 location in the world. You have to --
-I didn't care at all. -Now? Now?
-Yeah, you can put it -- put together.
-Oh, my God. Her favorite alcohol is
like a Brazilian infusion.
All right, all of this? -That's next.
That's next. Oh, I love cachaca.
-Just came back from Brazil. Like, today.
-Oh, lucky you. -I have a lot of cachaca.
A lot --
[ Laughter ]
-All of that? -All of that.
All of that. -Wow.
How many people is this for?
-That's going to be, like, a big amount of syrup
because you put, like, two -- like, three-quarter ounce
per cocktails, so there's going to be a lot of cocktail.
[ Light laughter ] -Okay.
-You all right? -I'm pretty good.
I feel like I got the harder of the two.
This is like --
[ Laughter ]
-No, the hardest is after it. -Okay, great. All right.
-Now, what about that sugar? -And we put the sugar.
-All of that? -Yeah, all of that.
It's a very, very, very sweet sugar.
[ Audience ohs ] -Brown sugar.
-A lot of calories. A lot of calories.
-Oh, this is fantastic. -And then we mix all that.
-Should I just mix for you? -Yeah.
It like it's going to heat.
So, the point of the --
The marshmallows won't dissolve.
The point of that is to dissolve the sugar.
-Uh-huh. -When it's cold after, like,
30 minutes simmering, you blend it.
-Uh-huh. -You blend together
and you filter it and then that's it.
-All right. -But luckily for tonight,
we're not gonna wait 30 minutes. -Great.
-Okay, we have this made already.
-We have all this made syrup already.
-We have to try it. -You have to turn it off,
because otherwise -- -It's going to be bubble,
and it's going to be everywhere. -He knows what he's doing.
[ Laughter ]
-So, what we're gonna do right now --
What we're gonna do right now, is we're gonna make the whole --
everyone's gonna make his own cocktail.
-Oh, good. -It's tricky.
It's tricky, because we're going to make a flip.
And the flip involve a whole egg.
-Okay. Great. -And if you put the whole egg
or egg white, it involve a dry shake.
It means a shake without ice. -Okay.
-So, let's do it. -All right, great.
So, we all take one of these? -You take the shaker.
-Okay. -Take the jigger.
-Okay. -We're going to put
an ounce and a half of that Budweiser marshmallow syrup.
-Okay. -So, you put it --
You see the line here? -Yep.
-That's the ounce there. -All right.
Oh, right, I have my own. -You have your syrup
as your own.
[ Laughter ]
No, no, I just -- yeah, okay. It was my fault.
-Okay. -All right, there we go.
-All right, boom. -And then what?
-Next? -But that's a little one.
He used a little one. That's the wrong one.
-Oh, no, no, no. You're making the wrong one.
It's gonna be good. -It'll be fine.
It's going to be fine. -It's gonna be unbalanced.
-I'm watching. -I'm going to switch with Martha
when we're done. [ Laughter ]
Which one next? This? Wait.
-Turn it around. Turn it around.
No, yeah. Next is going to be this one.
-Okay, what's this? -This is the rye infused
with pumpkin spices. -So, the bigger side now?
-Yeah, the big one. The big one.
You want some booze in it. -Yep. Great.
-All the way to the top? -All the way to the top.
-Okay, great. -All right.
And then we need some eggs. -Okay.
-Eggs? -Eggs should be around here.
No, they're not. -No eggs?
-No eggs. Where are the eggs?
-This is -- Did you take the eggs?
[ Laughter ] -You took the eggs?
-No. -Where are --
This is a very embarrassing. Our crew loves eggs.
[ Laughter ] -How can you make that cocktail
without eggs? -Here we go.
-Eggs, there they are. [ Cheers and applause ]
Eggs -- -My God, the service.
So, one egg. The full egg.
-Full egg. -So, it's very easy because
we don't have to separate. -One whole egg?
-Yeah, the whole egg. It's going to flip.
Okay. -Throw it in?
The whole thing? You crack it.
The whole thing.
Great. -Put it under here.
-So that's the [ indistinct ] -Okay.
-You close the shaker like that.
A little bit -- not straight, but on the side
because it's going to open.
And you have to shake it. Hold it pretty well
because it's not with ice. -Yep.
-It can explode. And I remember --
-But you're Tom Cruise. -Wait, if there was ice in --
Oh, you want me to Tom Cruise it?
-Yeah, I want you to try. -Can I flip it?
-I'm gonna -- -Oh!
[ Laughter ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
Why, you temptress!
-I'm not going to hire you. -No, I don't think so.
-Oh, but look what happened. Ooh, nice and fluffy.
-Don't show off how great it is now.
-Mine is perfect. -So, this is nice and fluffy
right now, so you're gonna take some ice.
Please take some ice. -Oh, it smells good.
-It smells good. And it's gonna be almost
the same but like -- like, very cold after that.
-What did you do to yours? -Well, I don't know.
Someone told me to flip it. [ Laughter ]
The floor is very sticky right now.
I told everybody today that you were really good in the kitchen.
-Oh, thank you. -And really good at the bar.
-Oh, thank you. -I can be good in the kitchen
and bad at the bar. I'm good in the bar and very --
good at the bar -- -All right, so do you need ice?
-We'll forget that. How much ice?
How much ice? -A bit more like into here.
-Three or four? Oh, I need more.
[ Light laughter ]
I feel like I'm doing really well with the ice.
[ Laughter ]
I mean, really, the ice is going great.
Okay, now we do it again? -Next time I come here,
I won't bring white shoes. -Yeah, yeah, sorry.
[ Light laughter ]
-See, I can do Tom Cruise. -Then you shake.
It's the flip. So you need like, ten seconds.
[ Cheers and applause ]
All right. -Okay.
-Tap it.
-You hit it. -On the side here.
-Not -- always on the side.
-Oh, I want you to spill so bad.
-No, I did not. See? Look, mine's perfect.
[ Light laughter ]
Let's see how high yours is.
-Tap it. -Let's see.
-Okay. -Is it the same?
-It's good. Very good, very good.
You take the coupette. -Yes, coupette.
-The miracle strainer. -This is -- this is what they --
You know what this is. -Yeah, of course.
[ Laughter ] We drink cocktail in it.
-This is Josephine's breast. -Yeah, yeah, of course.
Everything you're saying makes sense to me.
I've heard it before. [ Laughter ]
-Strainer.
You want to strain it? -Yeah, I'll strain it.
Thank you. -So, take the strainer.
See that. This is good because you
don't get the ice that's broken. -Okay.
-To the top, or less than that?
-No, you just drain the whole thing.
Oh, you didn't take the strainer.
Now you have to -- -Oh, no!
You have to use that. -Oh, no, Martha!
I feel so bad for you.
[ Laughter ] Oh!
I'll be over here with my finished drink.
-Mine's perfect.
-Ooh, that's very good.
-No, no, no. Not yet, not yet.
-Not yet! [ Laughter ]
-You have to take that. It's a little bit of
fried nutmeg on top. -What about mace?
I thought your name was mace.
-Actually, mace is the skin that surround the nutmeg.
-I know that. -Around that.
But for that, it just nutmeg. -It's the only spice
that has two spices. -Yeah, it's very good.
-Cheers. -You are a showoff.
[ Laughter ]
Nico de Doto and Martha Stewart, everybody!