Bittersweet

🚨 ATTENTION PLEASE🚨 we will be closed next week for our usual July break: July 3-9th to give our staff a much deserved break 😁 Looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday July 10th ☀️

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Our “Perfect 10” Strawberry-Honey-Black Pepper bitters collab with Crude Bitters is now available & here 3 perfect cocktails you can make with them:

1–Ferris Wheel:
3 dropperful Perfect 10 bitters
1/4oz chili simple syrup (hot honey will work too)
3/4oz strawberry- infused Lillet Rose (find this at wine stores, fill up a jar halfway with chopped strawberries cover with Lillet and let’s sit at room temperature for 3-4 hrs, then strain to use)
1/2oz Aperol
3/4 ozaged rum
3/4oz rye whiskey
—build in glass over ice, stir, add lemon twist

2–Fruity Porch Hang
Muddle 1 strawberry, mint leaves, 1 orange slice in tin (or build in glass)
-1oz Conniption American Dry or 1000 Piers Coastal Carolina gin
-1 oz  Cathead honeysuckle vodka
-1 oz grapefruit juice
-1/2oz lemon juice
-1/2oz simple syrup
-3 dropperful Perfect 10 bitters
Shake, double strain over ice filled wine glass. (Or just add ice to already built in glass)
Top with bubbles of choice or soda water for lower abv option

3–Perfect 10 O.F.
SUPER easy, if you’ve got the bitters in your bag, you can make this in an airport or dive bar
2oz Maker’s Mark bourbon
1/4oz simple syrup
4 droppers full of Perfect 10 bitters
Build in glass, stir with ice, add lime twist
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JOIN US SUNDAY, JUNE 9th 3-7 to CELEBRATE 10 YEARS!
DJ! 🎤 RAFFLE! 🎟️CAKE! 🎂 & $10 COCKTAILS! 🍹

✅SAVE THE DATE ✅ to come party with us! Sunday, June 9th, from 3-7pm we will be dancing and celebrating our first Bittersweet 10 years 🎉🥂 There will be cake and $10 cocktails! will be making us dance and there will be many fun surprises! 🍾🍸🎂

🥳BIG COLLAB & ANNIVERSARY NEWS!! 🎉

We partnered with Crude Bitters to create our gift to you on our TENTH ANNIVERSARY! 🥰
Perfect 10: Strawberry-Honey-Black Pepper bitters 🍓🍯 are of course fantastic with gin and we’re also loving them with bourbon and rum! They are available now and will be especially celebrated at our anniversary party on SUNDAY JUNE 9th, 3-7pm. Save the date to come out and help us celebrate with our staff! There will be special anniversary throwback $10 cocktails, DJ, raffle, CAKE and more!

SURPRISE DESSERT SPECIAL! We will have our Adult Dirt & Worms back now through Memorial Day! Come get this chocolate boozy treat while you can!

Our FIRST dessert collab! Have you had our weekend Spring Dessert Sampler yet? You get 3 different items and the first is a killer ice cream made just for us by local Bold Batch Creamery: coffee ice cream with toasted hazelnut bits & dark chocolate folded in! Also comes with a London Fog pot de crème and little gin-honey cake with hibiscus glaze 🤤 Why settle on one dessert when you can get three?!

Spring cocktails and desserts are here! That means beautiful edible flowers from are back too 🌸

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SAVE THE DATE! We’ll be open early at 2pm with all your fav Bittersweet pies (& cocktails!) available by the slice! Atlantic Beach, Chocolate French Silk, Derby and more—even a vegan option! Plan to come pie hard and day drink with us on the 14th! 🥧🍹

surprised 😲 thrilled, grateful and flattered that is recognizing our team and Bittersweet ❤️ Thanks for all the thoughtful congrats y’all have already sent ☺️…& thanks for giving gin the love it deserves 🍸

Are you in love with our vegan Chocolate Peanut Butter tart? Our kitchen manager Veronica, went above and beyond with this tasty treat. We think she deserves your vote for best dessert in Raleigh Vegan Chef Challenge. And if you haven’t tried it yet, get your b***y over here!

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WINTER MENU IS HERE! Hot cozy cocktails, boozy hot cocoa and peppermint lattes plus Yule Logs, cheesecake and all the treats you love us for ❤️

🎁Gift alert! 🎁
TSHIRTS BACK IN STOCK!
Variety of styles like two phrases featured and also:
“Will Flirt for Gin”
“Gin Club: Because everyone needs a hobby”

green & black, sizes S thru XL, $25 each, come visit and pick your fav😁

🦃NOW TAKING THANKSGIVING PIE ORDERS! 🥧 We have a limited amount of whole pies available to order for pickup on Wednesday, November 22rd. We’ve got Derby pie, Pumpkin pie and Chocolate French Silk pie, $44 each. Please email us at: [email protected] to order!

APPLE DOUGHNUT BACON COBBLER is back! Fridays & Saturdays only—and the patio is open! Come visit us, chill outside and listen to some bluegrass 🪕 We’ve got a stage right on our block 🎶

Hello beautiful! Thursday’s is DIRTY CHAI: brown-butter chai cupcake with coffee buttercream ☕️ Just $12 gets you the cupcake and a split of bubbles 🍾🧁

What a great team we have—just needed to take a minute to brag about all this hard work and dedication, day after day 👏🏼Thank you team! 🎉

CINNAMON DOUGHNUT MUFFINS ARE BACK! 😅 We def recommend dipping in an Irish Coffee 😋

Every Sunday at noon open for

HOPSCOTCH SPECIAL all this week!
HIT & RUN: get a shot of espresso at our window and choice of 3 different cocktails to-go 🏃‍♀️$14. We all have Iced Irish coffees, Espresso martinis and delicious sweet treats! Pop by & tell us what bands we need to see 😆

It’s called a GIN & JAM and we’ve been making them for over 9 years 🤤 Pick a gin, pick a jam (we are happy to help you decide)—swirl the spoon, eat the jam, whatever tickles your tummy—just enjoy ☺️

idk, I think the bakers might be a bit 💖😆

feels like Pride Month 🌈

Mark your calendar: we will be closed for our summer break, June 30-July 6 to give staff a much deserved break to travel and chill 🏝️


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Summer menu is out—full of flowers and amazing flavors! This is Princess Peach: gin, vermouth, peach liqueur, lemon, pecan-magnolia-habanero bitters, elderflower tonic, dried raspberries. Come visit, tons of new drinks and desserts!

I know what you’re thinking: What is that beautiful mess? 😱
Summer Menu drops Wednesday at 5pm. Come find out what we’ve made for you ☺️

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Stop by to purchase tickets or call us at: 919-977-3829 or send an email to: [email protected] and we will call you back 😁

yes we are all about the gin, but it’s hard to deny the sexy appeal of our FIRESIDE OLD FASHIONED: Maker’s 46 bourbon, cayenne 🌶️, chili simple and Crude smoke-salt bitters 🥃

SAVE THE DATE! Next Tuesday, May 9th for our NINTH anniversary! 6-10pm! $9 Bittersweet classic cocktails! Special guest bartenders and uymami of the DJ-ing! Plus CAKE!

Who’s hungry for Bubbles & Cake?! 🍾🧁 Tonight we’ve got 🍋LEMON BLUEBERRY🫐 to brighten your day: lemon pound cake cupcakes with blueberry buttercream 🤤 Just $12 gets you the cupcake and a split of bubbly 🥂