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The tiny cocktails are the big news in the world of the bar at the moment. It's all about narrowing, from Mini Martinis and Snaquiris to old -fashioned size and Guinness babies.
“It is partly an answer to people who drink less, but better; Visually, the tiny cocktails are also very cute, ”explains Tyler Zielinski, author of the new publication Tiny cocktails: the art of miniature mixology (Clarkson Potter). “And for taste hunters, they are great, because they allow you to try a much wider variety of flavors.”
The tiny cocktail, in its simplest form, could well be a jack. At the bar at ConnaughtFor example, guests are often welcomed with an aperitif taster in a coupe the size of a doll. But an increasing number of bars now offer ambitious “tasting menus” of cocktails the size of a bite associated with snacks. The news of Washington DC Press club Bar serves a $ 95 playlist menu with four recipes made with a mixed table and served with teeny sofas. The offers include a day of Martini-Nite Expresso style, made with tequila, a coffee liquor and a salty caramel dust, and a French 75 based on sake, served in thin paper, nano-glassware.
The guests at LifeThe new elegant Paris bar and restaurant by Alex Francis and Barney O'kane, formerly of the famous Little Red Door rounding bar-bar, can associate his six-dishes dinner with a selection of € 55 from sips with low ABV. Drinks the size of the destroyed size include the apple, a mixture of poached papple sorbet, calvados and dry cider, and hay, a cocktail of “Hay Spirit, Grass Soda & Yuzu Sake” served in a cup of porcelain personalized by the artist Silke Wellmeier.
A mini martini can be exquisite – and is often more practical too, as you can see, in the words of Savoy cocktail book (1930) “While he laughs at you”. East London's always inventive Bar with shapes for a name Recently created a flight of three Martinis of micro-gray goose which explored the interaction of sound, light and taste. It included a thorny “kiki” martini distilled with black pepper, a classic and “bouba” control, infused with rounded almond and sweet corn (£ 21 for theft) so that customers can compare and contrast in the light of an installation inspired by the theory of colors of Josef Albers. A riffing flight on rare teas will follow.
Do you take it for lunch of the three Martini but are you afraid of no longer having the chops? Then head to the You bar At the four seasons of New York, where you can enjoy a trio of Martinis of 2 Oz: dry, dirty and espresso. Meanwhile, a tiny “Tini based on a gene distilled on site is the signature service LawyerThe New Rosewood Hotel's cocktail bar in Amsterdam. In a real Dutch style, it is served in a glass with a nip size next to a blonde beer plan and a quail egg (a nod to an old law that has decreed the bars should offer snacks – which were often eggs – to strengthen their guests). Short and sweet.
