Simon’s Gin & Tonic Recipe

Simons gin & tonic is an object lesson in how creative reuse can produce serendipitous results. As the legend goes, bartended shaun layton was preparing a martini, for a guest who had to leave before it could be served. As luck would have it, another guest ordered a gin & tonic, dealers choice, and layton managed to rework the abandoned martini into a g&t somehow greater than the sum of its parts. Its a crisp, refreshing twist on two classics, and it demands a london dry or other gin with a bright, straightforward flavor like fords gin, for whose producer, simon ford, the drink was named.