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Shrunken, not stirred: the mini martini is big news
Bars are downsizing the cocktail, redesigning it as a cheaper, snappier or ‘starter’ drink
At Rita’s you can add a gilda, a type of Basque pintxo in this case featuring a green olive, blue cheese, anchovy and hot jalapeño. Ryan Chetiyawardana, who founded the award-winning London bars Seed Library and Lyaness, credits a wider martini renaissance with fuelling the shrunken trend. Jane Peyton, the author of the book The Philosophy of Cocktails and founder of the School of Booze, pegs the rise of colossal coupes to demand in the 1990s for drinks such as espresso martinis.
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