![]() ![]() Our Espresso Martini 2.0 is a tribute to its humble inventor. The man who was considered the father of the cocktail revival in London passed away in 2016. ![]() His final and longest-lasting job was at the Pink Chihuahua, a modest bar under a Mexican restaurant in Soho. ![]() The cocktail would follow its maker for the rest of his life Mr Bradsell could rarely enter a bar without the bartender wanting to show off his version of the Espresso Martini to him.Ĭontrary to what you would expect from a celebrated cocktail maker, Mr Bradsell disliked the limelight. Her request resulted in a combination of vodka, fresh-pressed espresso, coffee liqueur and sugar, garnished with a few coffee beans. Mr Bradsell first made the cocktail for a famous model (he didn’t disclose who) at Fred’s Club in the late eighties, after she asked for “a drink that will wake me up and then fuck me up”. An invention of his that enchants cocktail lovers to this day was initially called the Vodka Espresso, then the Pharmaceutical Stimulant and now the Espresso Martini. When he was recruited as head bartender of the Atlantic Bar and Grill, the 35-year-old became a bar-world celebrity.īy then, Mr Bradsell had already single-handedly changed the face of the London cocktail scene and created many modern classics such as the Bramble, the Treacle and the Russian Spring Punch. He turned out to be a tremendously creative drink inventor, showcasing his magic at hip private clubs in London like the Zanzibar, Soho Brasserie and Fred’s Club. In the seventies, bartending wasn’t considered a career worth pursuing for ambitious people, but Mr Bradsell stuck with it. Looking at his track record, there is only one possible conclusion: Mr Dick Bradsell deserves all the praise he gets.īorn in 1959, the Englishman turned to mixology as a teenager. Some even called him the ‘cocktail king’. The classic drink tells the story of a man who is considered the father of the cocktail revival in London in the 1980s. T he Espresso Martini is much more than a liquid wake-up call. ![]()
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