Featured Bartender

Diana Ly

Beverage Manager

Morimoto Asia in Disney Springs

Orlando, FL

Diana Ly is the beverage manager at Morimoto Asia in Disney Springs, located within the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, FL. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, she moved to Florida in 2015, joining Morimoto Asia in August 2021. In addition to her day-to-day front of house manager duties, she works with the restaurant’s chefs on pairings for special events, assists with the creation of well-balanced cocktails, and builds relationships with compliance beverage partners.

Gingerbread Manhattan

1½ oz. Gingerbread cookie infused Knob Creek
½ oz. Lazzaroni Amaretto
½ oz. Carpano Antica
1 dash Bittermen – New England spiced cranberry bitters
1 dash woodford orange bitters

➜ Grab a large container, pour all the gingerbread cookies in the container (crush some of the cookies up), add the bottle of Knob Creek (keep the bottle to refill it). Make sure the cookies are fully submerged in the bourbon. Let the infusion sit for about 4 hours – stir every hour to make sure all the ginger bread is completely broken down. Strain with a fine mesh strainer on top of a Shinwa strainer for a double strainer effect in another container and use a funnel to refill your bottle back up. Just make sure to have about an inch and ½ of cookie settlement in the bottle.