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Valentini Martini

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This is a luscious prelude to your evening's festivities..

These cocktails were proudly concocted @ ‘West Restaurant’, inside Hotel Angeleno, Los Angeles, California

  • The Valentini Martini – A perfect Valentine’s Day martini
  • In a mixing glass full of ice,
  • Muddle 3 raspberries
  • 2 oz. Stoli ‘Razzberry’ vodka,
  • 3/4 oz.Chambord Liqueur
  • 1 oz Half & Half
  • 1 oz Simple Syrup
  • Shake vigorously with ice and serve in a festive ‘chilled’ martini glass.
  • Finish with spoonful of fresh whipped cream???
  • Or save this for later…
  • serve to your favorite valentine.

Negroni

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Negroni Cocktail


The Negroni
• Begin With a Mixing Glass Full of Ice.
• 1 ounce Premium Gin
• 1 ounce Campari
• 1 ounce Sweet Vermouth
• Stir 30 to 50 Times
• Strain into a Chilled Cocktail Glass
• Garnish with an Orange Peel

The Negroni cocktail is made of one part gin, one part sweet vermouth and one part bitters, traditionally Campari. The most widely reported account of it’s origin, is that it was invented in Florence, Italy in 1919, at Caffè Casoni, which is now called Caffè Cavalli. Count Camillo Negroni invented it by asking the bartender, Fosco Scarselli, to strengthen his favorite cocktail, the Americano, by adding gin rather than the normal soda water. The bartender also added an orange garnish rather than the typical lemon garnish of the Americano to signify that it was a different drink. One of the earliest reports of the drink came from Orson Welles in correspondence with the Coshocton Tribune while working in Rome on Cagliostro in 1947, where he described a new drink called the Negroni.

Chili Pineapple Margarita

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Chili Pineapple Margarita

• Begin With 1 Slice of Fresh Jalapeno
• 3 Wedges of Lime
• And 1 Chili Pepper, Muddle These
• At The Bottom of a Mixing Glass
• 1 1/4 ounce Premium Tequila
• ¾ ounce Triple Sec
• 2 ounce Homemade Sweet & Sour
• Shake and Pour into a Salt Rimmed Highball Glass
• Garnish with a Strawberry and a Slice of Jalapeno

Chili Pineapple Margarita – is a Drink Chef signature cocktail. It’s a little sweet, a little spicy and quite delicious! Put it on your menu and watch it grow… A huge house favorite! Savory, sweet AND spicy! Not for everyone, this is quite unique and enticing to many, many of my guests. Give it a try this weekend! The cilantro kosher salt is also a great addition. Just put kosher salt in a food processor an a small bunch of cilantro leaves, blend them up and rim your glass! Cheers!

Gin Martini

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Gin Martini With A Twist

  • 2 ½ ounce Premium Gin
  • ½ ounce Dry Vermouth
  • Shake & strain into a cocktail glass
  • With a lemon twist

The ‘Martini’ is a cocktail made with Gin and Dry Vermouth, usually garnished with an olive . The amounts of each vary greatly, depending on local, or personal preferences. A 4 : 1 ratio was quite popular in times gone by. Now… ‘just a whisper’ is what my guests want… Also originally stirred, many like their martinis shaken now. This one is served with a twist. Probably the most notable cocktail of modern culture, it has it’s origins in clouded in obscurity. Many, many stories abound about the true origin of this fine cocktail. Cheers!

Daiquiri

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Daiquiri Cocktail


• 2 ounce Premium Rum
• Two Squeezes of Fresh Lime
• 1 ounce Fresh Lime Juice
• ¾ ounce Simple Syrup
• Shake & strain into a cocktail glass
• With A Lime Wedge

The Daiquiri was supposedly invented in the year 1900 in a bar near the coal mine and also named local beach called ‘Daiquiri’, near Santiago, Cuba. Gaining it’s popularity in a bar called ‘El Foridita, in Havana… This is a simple mixture of light rum, sugar and lime juice. There are many, many variations! All kinds of flavors. In this video… I use a blender, but the original recipe calls for a highball glass full of crushed ice, one spoon of sugar on top… the juice of a fresh lime and a generous pour of rum on top of that. Then it was stirred by the guest with a long handled spoon… Picture a hazy, hot, slowwww day, out on the back porch…Cheers!