A vivid electric-blue highball, the Blue Lagoon pairs clean vodka with the bittersweet orange of blue curaçao, lengthened with lemon-lime soda for a bright, easy-drinking fizz. It was created in the 1960s by Andy MacElhone at the storied Harry's New York Bar in Paris — the same room that birthed the Sidecar and White Lady — as bottled blue curaçao arrived to color the cocktail world. Its tropical hue made it a fixture of disco-era and tiki-adjacent menus.
Garnish: Orange Wheel
Built · Hurricane · Cubed
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.