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Negroni Week: Three Ingredients & One Simple Way to Give Back

It’s the first week of June and that’s means it’s Negroni Week! Negroni Week is presented by Imbibe Magazine and Campari and was launched in 2013 as a celebration of one of the world’s great cocktails and an effort to raise money for charities around the world. From 2013 to 2017, Negroni Week grew from about 120 participating venues to over 7,700 venues around the world, and to date, they have collectively raised nearly $1.5 million for charitable causes.

 

What's a Negroni?

The Negroni is an iconic Italian cocktail, made of one part gin, one part vermouth rosso, and one part Campari, garnished with orange peel. It is considered an apéritif.

 

What is Negroni Week exactly?

For one week every June, bar and restaurants mix classic Negronis and Negroni variations for a great cause. To participate, each venue signs up online and chooses from a list of official charity partners, and makes an immediate donation to that charity. Then they can return during and after Negroni Week to make additional donations to their chosen charity.

"My favorite part of Negroni Week is seeing how our bar community comes together to raise money and awareness for so many great charities. I love how our bartenders go above and beyond to honor the Negroni recipe, and how they create their own twists to this classic cocktail that showcases their unique personalities and style," says Marita Leonard, Miami's On Premise Preferred Account Specialist for Campari aka The Campari Queen of Miami.

 

Want to be part of a great cause?

It’s easy! All you have to do it head to one of the participating spots and enjoy its Negroni Week specials! The complete list of who is taking part in Negroni Week can be found here, but we’ve narrowed it down to a few local spots you should check out:

 

Bar Centro at Bazaar Mar SLS Brickell

Featured Negroni Special:

  • The Count's Request - Campari, Gin, Vermouth

  • Tegroni - Espolon Tequila, Campari, Vermouth

  • Estrella Damm by the bottle

Bar Centro, Bazaar Mar's cocktail hideaway will be celebrating Negroni Week during "Merienda Hour", their signature snack and sip concept, offering a bevy of cocktail specials from 5pm-7pm. Come into Bar Centro for an especially sweet "Merienda Hour" on Tuesday, June 5th for handcrafted Negroni Ice Cream from 5pm - 6pm!

Charity:

James Beard Foundation - The James Beard Foundation’s mission is to celebrate, nurture, and honor chefs and other leaders making America's food culture more delicious, diverse, and sustainable for everyone.

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Blackbird Ordinary

Featured Negroni Special:

  • Classic Negroni - Beefeater, Campari, sweet vermouth. orange zest

  • Grai’t white Negroni - Beefeater, Grai’t Grappa, Luxardo bitter bianco, blanc vermouth. grapefruit zest

Charity:

Refugee Canteen - Refugee Canteen is an academy that teaches people with a migrant background and refugees basic education in gastronomic professions. They rely on the combination of practical knowledge transfer in a fully equipped teaching kitchen and the experience in the gastronomic "real world". Here renowned restaurants and hotels support them by providing interesting employment sites.

They not only teach craftsmanship, but also the cultural understanding of the industry and society. At the end of participation, the integration can seamlessly evolve into insurance-based employment, a dual education or a continuing integration perspective. In this way, they open the door to the labor and training market for this special group of people - and at the same time counteract the shortage of skilled workers in the hospitality industry.

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Zuma

Featured Negroni Special:

  • Classic Negroni with sipsmith and a tropical twist

Charity:

No Kid Hungry - When you become part of No Kid Hungry, you're joining a movement of teachers, chefs, community leaders, parents, lawmakers and CEOs with a shared belief: no kid in America should go hungry.

1 in 6 children in America faces hunger, all across the United States, in every community. It's real. With your help, we can change it.

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Drift at 1 Hotel

Featured Negroni Special:

  • Grapefruit Negroni On Tap well as a Sbagliato

Charity:

Surfrider Foundation - The Surfrider Foundation is dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world's ocean, waves and beaches through a powerful activist network. The staff of nearly 50 people help support the chapter network in their campaigns, champion for policy and fight legal battles for our coasts, bring awareness to the issues facing our ocean, provide critical support for areas like accounting, technology, and HR, and raise money to make all of this happen. They have an appetite for adventure and all share a common passion - they love and appreciate our ocean, waves and beaches.

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KYU

Featured Negroni Special:

  • Each day, a different KYU bartender will put his spin on this loved classic. That means you will never have the same thing twice!
  • "That's my Negroni"- Oxley Gin, Tomato and basil infused Campari, Saffron bitters and Balsamic paint

Charity:

No Kid Hungry - When you become part of No Kid Hungry, you're joining a movement of teachers, chefs, community leaders, parents, lawmakers and CEOs with a shared belief: no kid in America should go hungry.

1 in 6 children in America faces hunger, all across the United States, in every community. It's real. With your help, we can change it.

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South Pointe Tavern

Featured Negroni Special:

SPT Negroni - A classic Negroni with a kick, adding a housemade coffee reduction into well known recipe.

Charity:

WILD Foundation - As the heart of the global wilderness community for over 40 years, the WILD Foundation protects wilderness while meeting the needs of human communities, working across cultures and boundaries by collaborating  with local peoples, organizations, the private sector, and governments to create dynamic practical projects, inspiring solutions and communications initiatives.

WILD’s work advances a reciprocal, balanced relationship between people and nature – our Nature Needs Half vision. Our aim is to ensure that enough wild land and seascapes are protected and interconnected (scientifically estimated to be at least half of any given ecoregion) to maintain nature’s life-supporting systems and the diversity of life on Earth. The vision supports human health and prosperity, and secures a bountiful, beautiful legacy of resilient, wild nature. Nature Needs Half recognizes that we are part of nature, not separate from it. The “half” also suggests a planet that is respectfully shared, where the needs of all living things are considered and protected equally, for the good of all.

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La Centrale at Brickell City Centre

Featured Negroni Special:

Endless Negronis from a free-flowing, gilded Negroni Fountain located in the center of its second floor at Aperitivo Bar. Grab a bar stool and a glass every weekday to indulge for just $20 during La Centrale’s Social Hour from 4 – 7PM.

Charity:

Slow Food International - 

Slow Food is a global, grassroots organization, founded in 1989 to prevent the disappearance of local food cultures and traditions, counteract the rise of fast life and combat people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from and how our food choices affect the world around us.

Since its beginnings, Slow Food has grown into a global movement involving millions of people in over 160 countries, working to ensure everyone has access to good, clean and fair food.

Slow Food believes food is tied to many other aspects of life, including culture, politics, agriculture and the environment. Through our food choices we can collectively influence how food is cultivated, produced and distributed, and change the world as a result.

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La Moderna

Featured Negroni Special:

  • NEGRAMARO - Gra' It Grappa, Vecchio Amaro del Capo, Campari Bitter and Vermouth Del Professore

Charity: 

CORE - CORE grants support to children of food and beverage service navigating life-altering circumstances. In times of extreme strain brought on by family death, injury or diagnosed medical condition, loss of home, or other sudden or extreme circumstances, food and beverage families can become overwhelmed financially and emotionally. CORE is the nationally recognized community of support for all food and beverage service families in need by ensuring they feel cared for and valued.

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Le Sirenuse Champagne Bar

Featured Negroni Special: 

L'essenza of our 2018 Negroni is a remarkable blend of three different recipes all crafted with different gins, vermouths, sherries and bitters to make the "Perfect Negroni".

Charity: 

Helen David Relief Fund - The Helen David Relief Fund (HDRF) honors the memory of the beloved Port Huron, Michigan bar owner and community leader. Beating breast cancer twice during her lifetime, Helen is an inspiration to those living with the disease. In her name, the HDRF assists women in the bar industry who are fighting breast cancer with the same dignity and courage that Helen exemplified throughout her battle and life as a pioneer business owner in the bar industry.