No ones knows booze better. With years of bartending under their belts, Vanderpump Rules couple Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix shared all their best cocktail recipes in Fancy AF Cocktails: Drink Recipes from a Couple of Professional Drinkers, and they gave Us Weekly a margarita recipe perfect for Cinco de Mayo — or any day that ends with a tequila craving.“Before you saw any Vanderpump Rules relationships unfold, we were both bartenders,” Sandoval, 38, and Madix, 36, write in the introduction to their book of Insta-worthy creations, which was cowritten by Danny Pellegrino. “We worked in some of the most popular bars in New York, Chicago, Miami, and Los Angeles.
We served drinks to celebrities, socialites, housewives, cool people, and definitely a few assholes. When it comes to life and our emotions we may be lacking, but when it comes to alcohol, and drinking . . .
we are professionals.”The pair, who have been together since 2014, told Us exclusively ahead of the Fancy AF release that the ideas didn’t just come from their bar menus. “Some of these cocktails came from us being out late at night, after the bar closes,” Sandoval revealed. “Somebody’s [like], ‘Yeah, come back to my place.’ You go back to their place, and they have a bottle of vodka.
They have no mixers. So we end up going through their cabinets, their fridge, and basically over the years we’ve almost learned how to make a cocktail pretty much out of anything.”He added at the time, “That’s where this Desperate Bloody Mary comes into play.
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