Small-Batch Cocktail Syrups, Classic Recipes, and a Modern Take on the American Bar
Strongwater
Founded in 2014, Strongwater creates small-batch cocktail syrups and bitters designed to make classic drinks easier to craft at home. Inspired by traditional recipes and made with carefully chosen ingredients, each bottle brings depth, balance, and old-fashioned character to cocktails, mocktails, and thoughtful gift sets built for anyone who appreciates a well-made drink.
Shop Strongwater Gift SetsWhat Makes Café du Monde Coffee Different?
Café du Monde’s most recognizable coffee combines dark-roasted coffee with roasted chicory root. Chicory adds body and depth to the brew while softening some of the sharper bitterness associated with a dark roast. The result is a bold but comforting cup with earthy, nutty, and almost chocolate-like notes.
Chicory coffee became closely associated with New Orleans and eventually developed into a regional tradition rather than simply an alternative to ordinary coffee. Café du Monde uses a blend of four parts coffee to one part chicory, and the coffee is roasted and packaged in New Orleans.
Traditionally, it is served café au lait—equal parts hot coffee and hot milk. The milk mellows the strong roast and creates the perfect companion for a plate of powdered-sugar beignets.
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Complete the Café du Monde Experience
Make Café du Monde-style beignets at home—light, puffy French doughnuts traditionally finished with a generous covering of powdered sugar. Pair them with coffee served black or café au lait for the complete New Orleans experience.
Bring the French Quarter to the Gift Box
At Gift With a Story, we are always looking for products that help create a full experience, not just fill a box. Café du Monde does exactly that.
Their coffee and beignet mix bring together history, regional charm, and timeless flavor, all wrapped in a sense of indulgence that feels right at home in our prohibition-inspired collections.
In a world of hidden speakeasies and whispered passwords, not every pleasure needed to be outlawed. Sometimes all it took was a hot cup of chicory coffee, a plate of powdered beignets, and a moment that felt just a little too good to be entirely respectable.
