ESPRESSO MARTINI

Dick Bradsell, Soho Brasserie, London, 1983.

Vodka, coffee liqueur, and Monmouth Coffee. ABV 20%

One 75ml serving of ESPRESSO MARTINI contains 182 calories

We pull every espresso by hand using Monmouth beans. Vodka selection matters more here than in almost any other drink: triple-distilled smoothness produces a flat Espresso Martini, because the spirit needs enough character to hold the coffee in check. We use one with backbone.

Dick Bradsell’s original recipe included sugar syrup. We left that out, and add sweetness through the coffee liqueur, which also deepens the flavour. Shake hard for twenty seconds over ice, single-strain into a coupe, and add three coffee beans: con la mosca, the Italian tradition, for health, wealth, and happiness.

Dick created this in Soho in 1983, reportedly for a model who asked to be simultaneously woken up and undone. It went on to become the defining cocktail of its era. It has not yet stopped.

Dick Bradsell, Soho Brasserie, London, 1983.

Vodka, coffee liqueur, and Monmouth Coffee. ABV 20%

One 75ml serving of ESPRESSO MARTINI contains 182 calories

We pull every espresso by hand using Monmouth beans. Vodka selection matters more here than in almost any other drink: triple-distilled smoothness produces a flat Espresso Martini, because the spirit needs enough character to hold the coffee in check. We use one with backbone.

Dick Bradsell’s original recipe included sugar syrup. We left that out, and add sweetness through the coffee liqueur, which also deepens the flavour. Shake hard for twenty seconds over ice, single-strain into a coupe, and add three coffee beans: con la mosca, the Italian tradition, for health, wealth, and happiness.

Dick created this in Soho in 1983, reportedly for a model who asked to be simultaneously woken up and undone. It went on to become the defining cocktail of its era. It has not yet stopped.

Dick Bradsell, Soho Brasserie, London, 1983.

Vodka, coffee liqueur, and Monmouth Coffee. ABV 20%

One 75ml serving of ESPRESSO MARTINI contains 182 calories

We pull every espresso by hand using Monmouth beans. Vodka selection matters more here than in almost any other drink: triple-distilled smoothness produces a flat Espresso Martini, because the spirit needs enough character to hold the coffee in check. We use one with backbone.

Dick Bradsell’s original recipe included sugar syrup. We left that out, and add sweetness through the coffee liqueur, which also deepens the flavour. Shake hard for twenty seconds over ice, single-strain into a coupe, and add three coffee beans: con la mosca, the Italian tradition, for health, wealth, and happiness.

Dick created this in Soho in 1983, reportedly for a model who asked to be simultaneously woken up and undone. It went on to become the defining cocktail of its era. It has not yet stopped.

Dick Bradsell, Soho Brasserie, London, 1983.

Vodka, coffee liqueur, and Monmouth Coffee. ABV 20%

One 75ml serving of ESPRESSO MARTINI contains 182 calories

We pull every espresso by hand using Monmouth beans. Vodka selection matters more here than in almost any other drink: triple-distilled smoothness produces a flat Espresso Martini, because the spirit needs enough character to hold the coffee in check. We use one with backbone.

Dick Bradsell’s original recipe included sugar syrup. We left that out, and add sweetness through the coffee liqueur, which also deepens the flavour. Shake hard for twenty seconds over ice, single-strain into a coupe, and add three coffee beans: con la mosca, the Italian tradition, for health, wealth, and happiness.

Dick created this in Soho in 1983, reportedly for a model who asked to be simultaneously woken up and undone. It went on to become the defining cocktail of its era. It has not yet stopped.

Dick Bradsell, Soho Brasserie, London, 1983.

Vodka, coffee liqueur, and Monmouth Coffee. ABV 20%

One 75ml serving of ESPRESSO MARTINI contains 182 calories

We pull every espresso by hand using Monmouth beans. Vodka selection matters more here than in almost any other drink: triple-distilled smoothness produces a flat Espresso Martini, because the spirit needs enough character to hold the coffee in check. We use one with backbone.

Dick Bradsell’s original recipe included sugar syrup. We left that out, and add sweetness through the coffee liqueur, which also deepens the flavour. Shake hard for twenty seconds over ice, single-strain into a coupe, and add three coffee beans: con la mosca, the Italian tradition, for health, wealth, and happiness.

Dick created this in Soho in 1983, reportedly for a model who asked to be simultaneously woken up and undone. It went on to become the defining cocktail of its era. It has not yet stopped.