THE TEMPLES OF THE COCKTAIL MARTINI

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This is place that some guy in Forte dei Marmi probably knows. It is quite famous.

Surely, not for the Martini cocktail it serves.

I asked my routine cocktail: a very dry Martini, cold gin, stirred, NOT shaken: one olive; no lemon. Not a very hard call.

This is what I got. The only right thing was: no lemon. I was served a horrible glass, all vermouth and almost no gin (the bartender must be the last one believing that a very dry Martini cocktail is a 1:1 recipe....), TWO olives (and that, for people who know their stuff, makes it a 'Franklin', not a Martini....)

The bartender said (kindly) that I didn't have to pay for the cocktail as I had complained about that obscene glass. Very kind of him, but when I pointed out that I hadn't paid for a cocktail that I didn't drink anyway as it was undrinkable....he was speechless.

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