So called Martini bars
I'd like to address the so called Martini Bars that seem to be popular right now. Am I the only person who find them a little offensive?
Don't get me wrong. I've got nothing against and honest martinin. But I think that some of the people who frequent these establisments have seen a few too many episodes of "Sex and the City."
Let me be more clear about my aggravation:
Apple Pucker and butterscotch schnapps do not a martini make!
A martini consists of gin and vermouth. Or vodka and vermouth. Dry vermouth is used almost exclusively, though one can also order a perfect martini which calls for equal parts of both sweet and dry vermouth.
Simply creating a sugary sweet mixed drink (or "girly drink" if youi will) and pouring it into a martini glass does not mean youi have a martini. It just means you have a screw driver in a martini glass.
Now, this isn't to say that all these new drinks are bad. Some are, some aren't. What they most certainly are not are martinis. And this is starting to give martinis a bad name. I was having a conversation with a bartender at my favorite watering hole recently and were discussing this very problem. She told me that earlier in the week a group of people had been come into the bar. One of them ordered a martini. Being and astute bartender, she was able to size up her customers and didn't believe that this individual was really a martini drinker.
She politely asked if there was naything else she could get for him. No. He wanted a martini.
So she made it, and brouht it over.
The customer took one sip and literally spit it out.
"What is this?", he said. "It tastes like pure alcohol!"
Well of course it did, you idiot. It's a martini. It is pure alcohol. this gentleman was simply ordering what he preceived to be a cool drink. He had no idea what he was really in for. Maybe he'd heard martinis are making a comeback and wanted to look cool. Who knows?
The same bartender also told me the story of the customer who said, "I want a very dry martini, with an extra shot of vermouth." That's like saying, "I want a decaf coffee with and extra shot of caffeinne." In the martini world dry means less vermouth. The dryer the martini, the less vermouth it has.
This kind of ineptitude really pisses me off. I'm sure I'll have more to say about it later, but for now I've gotten it off of my chest.
take care
-Bluto
Don't get me wrong. I've got nothing against and honest martinin. But I think that some of the people who frequent these establisments have seen a few too many episodes of "Sex and the City."
Let me be more clear about my aggravation:
Apple Pucker and butterscotch schnapps do not a martini make!
A martini consists of gin and vermouth. Or vodka and vermouth. Dry vermouth is used almost exclusively, though one can also order a perfect martini which calls for equal parts of both sweet and dry vermouth.
Simply creating a sugary sweet mixed drink (or "girly drink" if youi will) and pouring it into a martini glass does not mean youi have a martini. It just means you have a screw driver in a martini glass.
Now, this isn't to say that all these new drinks are bad. Some are, some aren't. What they most certainly are not are martinis. And this is starting to give martinis a bad name. I was having a conversation with a bartender at my favorite watering hole recently and were discussing this very problem. She told me that earlier in the week a group of people had been come into the bar. One of them ordered a martini. Being and astute bartender, she was able to size up her customers and didn't believe that this individual was really a martini drinker.
She politely asked if there was naything else she could get for him. No. He wanted a martini.
So she made it, and brouht it over.
The customer took one sip and literally spit it out.
"What is this?", he said. "It tastes like pure alcohol!"
Well of course it did, you idiot. It's a martini. It is pure alcohol. this gentleman was simply ordering what he preceived to be a cool drink. He had no idea what he was really in for. Maybe he'd heard martinis are making a comeback and wanted to look cool. Who knows?
The same bartender also told me the story of the customer who said, "I want a very dry martini, with an extra shot of vermouth." That's like saying, "I want a decaf coffee with and extra shot of caffeinne." In the martini world dry means less vermouth. The dryer the martini, the less vermouth it has.
This kind of ineptitude really pisses me off. I'm sure I'll have more to say about it later, but for now I've gotten it off of my chest.
take care
-Bluto
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