Behind The Drinks
Let's talk about espresso martini
There are many variations to this cocktail,
One with foam, with coconut milk, salty, made with tequila or completely without alcohol.
It has a reputation for being a bit junky... an old drink, really sweet, really a rookie drink.
In the last year it has become viral especially on the networks and also with us this cocktail that we just launched in the winter! The previous one is breaking records!
In the last year it has become viral especially on the networks and also with us this cocktail that we just launched in the winter! The previous one is breaking records!
So here are two of my favorite versions:
A favorite alcoholic and caffeinated cocktail
BUT FIRST COFFEE / LA
50 ml tequila refusado, preferably Milagro/Casa Migos
25 ml fresh espresso
20 ml Kloë coffee liqueur
15 ml of reduced Coca-Cola
Garnish: a pineapple leaf is served over ice in the harvest
Shake in a shaker
Strain into the crop glass over ice.
Garnish with a sprig of mint and serve with a straw.
Recipe for reduced Coca Cola
Coca Cola reduction:
300 ml of coke
1 cup of sugar
1 tablespoon of cinnamon
Mix the ingredients in a pot. Cook over low heat, about 20 minutes, until bubbling, then remove
from the fire The mixture will thicken as it cools.
from the fire The mixture will thicken as it cools.
Patrick smith Espresso Martini /NYC
15 ml demerara sugar syrup (1:1, demerara sugar: water)
15 ml vanilla liqueur, preferably Gifred Vanilla de Madagascar
20 ml of coffee liqueur, preferably cloaca
20 ml of espresso
40 ml of vodka, preferably Kettle One
Decoration: three coffee beans
Shake in a shaker
Double strain into a chilled coupe or cocktail glass.
Garnish with three coffee beans.
Our espresso martini is brewed in a "small batch" in our cocktail workshop from Maestoso Cafe
I chose this coffee mainly because of the aroma, which gives a long lasting taste. It is sweet and bitter at the same time, in a balance between a deep taste with hints of chocolate and vanilla. I also drink it myself in my homemade espresso
If you drank Spicehouse's espresso martini and also noticed a touch of almonds, you were not mistaken. The customary combination of the alcoholic cream that was found in the parents' house of my generation (Irish coffee) found itself very gently in my espresso martini already in the days when I prepared menus for my bars in Tel Aviv and still in bottles today of Spicehouse. Without the whiskey found in the Irish Cream, of course, the flavors of vanilla, cocoa and almonds all subtly (that won't be too sweet) rest in our espresso martini.