A vivid electric-blue highball, the Blue Lagoon sets clean vodka against the bittersweet orange of blue curaçao, then stretches it long with lemon-lime soda. Served over ice with an orange wheel, it drinks bright, cold and easy, the citrus fizz lifting the curaçao's gentle bitterness so the whole glass stays light and sweet-tart.
Garnish: Orange Wheel
Built · Hurricane · On the Rocks
build
Fill a hurricane (or tall highball) glass with cubed ice.
add
Pour the vodka and blue curaçao over the ice.
top
Top with chilled lemon-lime soda and stir gently to combine.
garnish
Garnish with an orange slice.
Harry's New York Bar in Paris, the room also tied to the Sidecar and White Lady, lays claim to inventing the Blue Lagoon, though no individual bartender is documented as its creator. Its glowing colour made it a regular on disco-era and tiki-adjacent menus, and it appeared on the IBA's 1987 list of official cocktails, a status it no longer holds. Later hands have reworked it with lime cordial, or with raspberry or grenadine in a version known as the "fruit tingle."