Tini Bigs

Featured hotspots and drinks from the Great Cocktails series (Episode 101):

Seattle's Tini Bigs

Billed as Seattle's "2nd Best Cocktail Lounge," Tini Bigs is legendary for its variety of martinis, thus the name. Every martini at Tini Bigs is seved in a 10 oz. martini glass — emphasis on big.

The menu features 30 martinis, but one of the favorites is the Spanishtini:

Ingredients:

2 oz. coffee liqueur
3/4 oz. crème de cacao
3/4 oz. Cointreau
2-1/2 oz. chilled black coffee
1/2 oz. Bacardi 151
sugar
heavy cream
cinnamon
nutmeg
chocolate

Tools:

cocktail glass
shaker
strainer
matches
grater

In a shaker, combine 2 oz. coffee liqueur, 3/4 oz. crème de cacao, 3/4 oz. Cointreau, and 2-1/2 oz. chilled black coffee. Shake vigorously and let stand. Pour 1/2 oz. Bacardi 151 into a cocktail glass with a sugared rim. Strike a match, let the sulphur burn off and carefully light the 151 on fire. Rotate the glass at a 45-degree angle, letting the flames caramelize the sugared rim. Sprinkle in nutmeg and cinnamon over the flames. Extinguish the fire and strain the contents of the shaker into the glass. Top with heavy cream and garnish with cinnamon and grated chocolate.

Tini Bigs
100 Denny Way
Seattle, WA 98109
206-284-0931
www.tinibigs.com

	Pegu Club
	Dry Gin Martini

Pegu Club

The original Pegu Club was a British Colonial Officers' club near the Gulf of Martaban, in Burma (outside of Rangoon). The Pegu was the signature drink of the club, and Rudyard Kipling wrote about both the club and the drink during his travels. He described the club as a place that "seemed to be full of men on their way up or down."

Today the Pegu Club is located New York's SoHo district, and the goal of the staff is to do the "little things" well. As each day commences, they squeeze fresh lemon, lime, orange and grapefruit juices by hand, and they craft their own infusions, tinctures, flavored syrups and ginger beer.

The FINE LIVING Great Cocktails equivalent of the Pegu Club Cocktail is the Dry Gin Martini:

Ingredients:

2 oz. gin
dash vermouth
olive or lemon twist

Tools:

mixing glass
strainer
bar spoon
cocktail glass

Fill a mixing glass half full of ice. Pour in 2 oz. gin and stir for 20 seconds. Coat a chilled martini glass with a few dashes of vermouth. Strain the gin into the glass and garnish with an olive or a lemon twist.

Pegu Club
77 W. Houston St.
New York, NY 10016
212-473-7348
www.peguclub.com

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