Recipe by Zoe Bates (@zoeabates)
• 2 oz Saigon Baigur Gin
• 1 oz dry vermouth
• Garnish: lemon twist
Wet Martini
Gin Martini
Recipe by Soren Schepkowski (@big.cocktail.guy)
• 2 oz The Botanist Islay Dry Gin
• 0.75 oz dry vermouth
• 2 dashes orange bitters
• Garnish: lemon twist
Wet Martini
Recipe by Dash Tume (@dasht______).
• 2 oz freezer-cold Sipsmith London Dry Gin
• 1 oz extra-dry Italian vermouth
• 1 dash orange bitters
• Garnish: lemon twist
50/50 Gin Martini
Recipe by Evelyn Chick (@evelynchick).
• 1.5 oz Plymouth Gin
• 1.5 oz Guerra Dry Vermouth
• Garnish: lemon twist and olive
Dirty Gin Martini
Recipe by Chantelle Gabino (@chantigabino). Why three olives for garnish? “Because I want an olive at the beginning, middle and end of the drink.”
• 2.25 oz Roku Gin
• 0.75 oz Cocchi Vermouth di Torino Extra Dry Vermouth
• 0.5 to 0.75 oz Cerignola olive brine
• Garnish: lemon zest, 3 olives
Make it a Martini
Shaken, stirred or steaming with dry ice—the classic cocktail has never been so cool
Drink trends come and go—remember the Negroni Sbagliato? Frosé?—but through it all, the Martini persists. For over 100 years, fans of the drink (James Bond, Lucille Bluth, Carrie Bradshaw, Winston Churchill) have sipped fervently and ask for theirs by specifics: bone-dry, brine-packed, with olives or a twist.
Recently, the drink’s popularity has been pushed into overdrive. “The Martini has become really trendy,” says Calum Wilson, director of food and beverage at the downtown Toronto hotel Revery. “It’s having a huge resurgence right now.”
The Dirty Martini
A tarnished classic cleans up its act
If given the choice, you’d pick potato chips over chocolate. You prefer your cheese well aged and a little blue. When you order sushi, you always need to refill your soy dipping bowl. You can’t wait for mushroom season. And you almost certainly have at least three types of salt in your pantry right now.
If you’re the sort of person who craves savoury and salty flavours, then the Dirty Martini is the drink for you. Luckily, it’s no longer the pariah of the cocktail set.
Well, sort of.
Dirty Martini
A savoury variation on the classic
2.5 oz gin or vodka
0.5 oz dry vermouth
0.25 to 0.5 oz olive brine
Garnish: 1 or 3 olives on a skewer
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What’s new? What’s next? In some ways, the pandemic has changed everything about how we drink. In others, it’s only accelerated trends that were already in the works. We checked in with experts both local and global, and here’s what they had to say about the way we’re drinking now and in the months to come.
Umami Martini
Replace murky olive brine with clear bitters in this evolution of the classic Dirty Martini.
• 1.5 oz gin
• 0.5 oz dry vermouth
• 2 dashes The Japanese Bitters Umami Bitters (or to taste)
• Garnish: cocktail olives or pickled mushroom (optional)