Espresso Martini

The espresso martini is a cocktail name familiar to all but the most inexperienced of drinkers

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but it wasn’t always known as such

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Invented by Dick Bradsell back in 1983 during his tenure at the Soho Brasserie

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it was originally christened the “Vodka Espresso”.

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Cocktail legend has it that a young,

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future supermodel sidled up to the bar and asked Dick to make her a cocktail with coffee.

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He mixed her a drink using vodka, sugar, coffee liqueur and a shot of espresso,

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pulled from the coffee machine next to his station

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It’s a story that has helped the drink retain an edginess that many modern cocktails have failed to replicate

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