Birth of a Cocktail: The Dukes Martini
The Dukes Bar, wedged in one corner of the exclusive Dukes Hotel off St. James’s Place in London, is a minuscule place. Its most famous offering, however, looms large. The Dukes Martini was created by Salvatore Calabrese in the 1980s, and now stands as a totem of the early days of the London cocktail revival, when cocktail havens were few. The Dukes Martini is a Martini the way a whale is a mammal. Made of several ounces of ice-cold, undiluted gin or vodka, and a trifling amount of vermouth, it is a prelude to a stagger and a nap. If you go, go at 2 or 3 p.m. and don’t make plans for the rest of the afternoon.
From “11 Bars Where a Cocktail Was Born (or Raised)” by Robert Simonson for the New York Times, 2016
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