(Tina Rupp)

TOTAL TIME: 5 MINSERVINGS: Makes 1 drink

Prime Meats, Brooklyn, NY

Chef-partners Falcinelli and Castronovo and their friend Travis Kauffman concocted this terrifically refreshing cooler one hot summer night with ingredients from Falcinelli's rooftop garden.

2 ounces chilled club soda1 ounce fresh lemon juice1 ounce Simple Syrup1 hot chile, such as serrano, halved and seededIce5 cherries, pitted, plus 1 cherry for garnish3 mint leaves, plus 1 sprig for garnish2 ounces white rum

In a cocktail shaker, muddle the 5 pitted cherries, mint leaves and chile. Add ice and the rum, lemon juice and Simple Syrup; shake well. Strain into an ice-filled collins glass, stir in the club soda and garnish with a cherry and a mint sprig.