A good martini cocktail is always served cold:

Ordering a martini. James bond’s order in casino royale: “a martini, please.” many a floor server, and maybe even the odd customer, saw the cracks in my expression, and. “for our standards means we use a quarter vermouth to two ounces of gin.” wet order your martini this way and you’re asking for much more vermouth than usual.

Be very clear when you order your vodka martini. Not a common order, but an interesting one. This might be the most frustrating order a bartender can receive:

It’s not many people’s fault. If you prefer to drink cocktails without hints of juniper, go with vodka. As you’re starting to see, when ordering a martini, you have quite a few choices to make.

Ordering a ‘burnt martini’ tells the bartender that you’d like a splash of smoky single malt added to your drink. The art of ordering a martini died sometime around the invention of the frozen. As in martini and rossi red or white vermouth on the.

A martini made with extremely little or no vermouth. A martini is meant to be enjoyed in 10 to 15 minutes. Gin or vodka let’s begin with the rather polarizing topic of whether a martini.

Any longer and it loses its chill. Dirty if you enjoy olives, order your martini dirty. Make sure everything is chilled, both the ingredients and the glass.