Bartenders Favorite Martini Recipes

By: Don Zilleri

In my young age, I worked in a restaurant to support my education. To become a bartender and enjoy the best tips, I attended Toronto institute of bar-tending. Little I knew for the next few years of my life, I spend enjoying being a pro bartender. One of the most exciting and demanding professional category of the Bids By Pros is its private bartenders. It is becoming a classy trend to hire a professional private bartender to tend and run the bar for the parties now a days.

These licensed pro bartenders turn the traditional bar-tending service into  another level of excitement and sophistication with a new mixology term and the upgraded mixes of drinks. So I decided to share some of the favorite recipes and I couldn’t resist not sharing the king of all mixes, Martini.

Here are bartenders few favorite martini recipes.

For every recipe, chill your serving traditional martini glass before serving and note that all Martini’s are served straight up with no ice in the glass. Most Martini recipes use Martini cocktail shaker with strainer to chill the mix with ice cubes.

- Classic Martini

As the name says it is truly classic as we all know the phrase” Not shaken, stirred!” from the James Bond movies. The modern classic martinis uses Vodka instead of Gin. The brand, is a personal choice and preference.

• 2 oz gin or vodka
• 1/2 oz dry vermouth
• Ice Cubes

Garnish it with:

• Pimento-stuffed green olives on the frills

- Chocolate Martini (German)

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• 2 oz Vodka (Black cherry )
• Ice cubes
• 1/2 oz Creme De Cacao or original Godiva chocolate liqueur
• splash of coconut rum

Garnish ir with:

• Dip the rim of the martini glass in chocolate
• Shavings of dark Godiva chocolate.

- Apple Martini

• 2 oz Vodka
• Ice cubes
• 1.5 oz sour apple liqueur
• 1.5 oz fresh lemon juice

Garnish it with:

Thin sliced Fuji green apple

- Dirty Martini

This is for olive lovers.

• 2 oz Gin or Vodka
• Ice cubes more than usual
• 1/2 oz dry vermouth
• 1/2 oz olive juice
• 2 pieces of olive

Shake hard and garnish with:

• 1 pice of olive

- Blue Bikini Martini

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• 2 oz Gin
• Ice cubes
• 1 oz blue Curaceo
• 1/2 oz peach Schnapps
• splash of pineapple juice

Garnish with:

• Slice of fresh pineapple or orange

Cosmo Martini

This is a drink that was on the first list of every bartender. You can refresh it up by changing its flavor from Cranberry to pomegranate  water melon or raspberry.

• 2 oz Vodka
• Ice cubes
• 1/2 oz cointreau orange liqueur
• 1/2 oz lime juice
• splash of cranberry juice

Garnish it with:

• Fresh slice of orange peel

Although making many cocktails and martini mixes are trending in modern bar toward liquid nitrogen for cooling, I prefer the classic cocktail shaker and ice cubes way. When i think of Martini, I imagine a cocktail shaker getting chilled with a sound of splash inside as it is shaken left and right. Have a Martini and chill.

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