St. Petersburg’s best Indian food and Florida’s top craft distillery walk into a Sunday brunch, and no, this isn’t the setup to a joke. It’s the best thing to happen to your weekends since someone invented sleeping in.
St. Petersburg Distillery, the family-owned craft spirit operation at 800 31st St. S., has teamed up with The Twisted Indian for a weekly collaboration called St. Petersburg Distillery Gets Twisted. Every Sunday from 11 am to 2 pm, the distillery’s relaxed outdoor setting fills with Twisted Indian’s brunch menu and specially crafted cocktails, including a Mango Lassi cocktail made specifically for this pairing. The distillery’s new spring cocktail menu is also on offer, because apparently just the Mango Lassi wouldn’t have been enough of a reason to show up.
Let’s be clear about what we’re dealing with here. The St. Petersburg Distillery isn’t some weekend hobby project that two guys started in a garage after watching too many cooking shows. It’s a high-quality operation that’s been crafting small-batch, award-winning spirits since 2014, using locally sourced Florida ingredients to produce whiskey, rum, gin, and vodka with a level of care that frankly makes you feel a little guilty about your last liquor store run…