A pink, fizzy glass of ginger ale tinted and sweetened with a splash of grenadine and crowned with a maraschino cherry — the archetypal "kids' cocktail" that lets a child clink glasses with the adults. The ginger gives a gentle bite and steady bubbles beneath the grenadine's candied red-fruit sweetness, and served tall over ice it drinks cold, light and unapologetically sugary.
Garnish: Maraschino Cherry
built · Highball · On the Rocks
add
Fill a highball glass with ice and pour in the grenadine.
top
Top with ginger ale.
stir
Stir gently to distribute the grenadine and tint the drink pink.
garnish
Garnish with a maraschino cherry.
The drink appeared in 1930s Hollywood and takes its name from Shirley Temple, the reigning child star of the day, though no individual inventor has ever been credited. Two restaurants lay claim to it — Chasen's in West Hollywood and the Brown Derby in Hollywood — and the dispute remains unsettled. In a 1986 interview Temple herself gave the credit to the Brown Derby. She also said she found her namesake too sweet.