Cocktails in the Las Vegas Subway?
Try a Smoky Dirty Martini!
It fits the mood…
A little while back I wrote about a fantastic dinner and the chef’s very clever Dirty Martini Salad at Diner Ross at The LINQ Hotel Las Vegas. What I neglected to share was how to get there… curiously, you must enter the diner only through a secret subway station entrance.
Sip delightful cocktails to the music and trippy sounds of an occasional train passing through the “tunnel” while awaiting your dinner reservation.
Inspired by the fabulous Dirty ol’ Martini served in the subway, here is my version:
A Smoky Dirty Martini
Smoked Cocktail Onions
- cocktail onions and juice
- lazy kettle brand all natural liquid smoke
Place desired amount of onions and juice to cover in a small container. Add a few generous shakes of liquid smoke and stir. Cover tightly and refrigerate at least 2 hours, preferably 24 hours.
Lazy Kettle Brand All Natural Liquid Smoke is 100% salt-free, concentrated liquid smoke. Lazy Kettle captures the steam rising from burning hickory, it condensates then the droplets are bottled. The ingredients are simply 100% pure smoke in an aqueous base.
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 oz Monkey 47 dry gin
- 1/2 oz Noilly Prat dry vermouth
- 1/2 oz smoked onion brine (adjust to taste for more or less “smoky/dirty”)
- smoked cocktail onions (for garnish)
Method
Fill a mixing glass with ice.
Pour in the gin, dry vermouth, and smoked onion brine.
Stir with a cocktail spoon for about 40 seconds until well-chilled. (Stirring preserves the clarity of the drink, while shaking makes it cloudier.)
Strain into a chilled martini glass.
Garnish with one or three smoked cocktail onions on a cocktail pick. (Tradition says to avoid even numbers for garnish!)
Awesome pics! Was definitely a fun evening!