World Martini Day is coming up on Sunday 19 June and what better way to celebrate our Friday Cocktail than with one of Australia’s most popular cocktails – the Espresso Martini.
The Espresso Martini has a relatively short history, in cocktail terms, with the drink believed to have been first created in the early eighties by London bartender Dick Bradsel.
According to the bartender, a famous model at the time entered the Soho Brasserie where he was working, and asked him to create a drink that would “wake her up”.
Fast forwarding thirty odd years and the Espresso Martini is one of the nation’s favourite cocktails.
Given Australia’s obsession with good coffee it’s no surprise that when ordering the cocktail in any Aussie cocktail bar you will get premium shot directly from the espresso machine mixed with vodka, Kahlua and Frangelico.
So if you need a ‘pick me up’ cocktail to kickstart the weekend after a hectic week at work this popular cocktail should do the trick!
Espresso Martini
Ingredients:
30 ml House infused vanilla belvedere unfiltered vodka
30 ml House Cold dripped coffee
20ml of Kahlua
10ml of Frangelico shaken on ice
Method:
Pour all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake well. Strain into a martini glass and serve in chilled martini glass and garnish with 3 roasted coffee beans. Note: Primus Hotel Sydney serves the cocktail in a glass that has been chilled to -50 degrees Celsius by using liquid nitrogen at -210 degrees to chill the glass.
Taste note: Freshly roasted coffee been on the nose with hint of hazelnut, sweet, creamy and full bodied on palate
The recipe comes from Primus Hotel Sydney, Sydney’s newest 5 star Art Deco hotel: www.primushotelsydney.com.
