In 23 years of visits to the Shark Tank — aka SAP Center at San Jose — I’d never once had a Sharkarita, the NHL team’s teal-hued signature cocktail. That is, until Jessica Lopez, a bartender at the Ice Bar on the arena’s concourse level, made one for me at the Sharks’ preseason opener.
It’s your basic margarita — tequila, triple sec and lime juice — with a garnish of shark-fin lime wedges and cherries (that’s the blood!) and the important splash of blue curacao liqueur. That last ingredient provides the color, but it also brings the sweetness up a notch.