The Skinny Cocktail Column: July

Classic Dry Martini

For July our cocktail comes from the Traverse Theatre Bar, where manager Steven Simpson made us a variation on the classic martini, pounding black olives in with the mix for a modern twist on the dirty martini. To do the same you will need:

A chilled martini glass, rinsed with Noilly Prat Extra Dry

50ml SW4 Gin
A black olive
Ice

Shaken or stirred depending on taste, and strained into the chilled glass.

Garnish with olives

To sample some more SW4 cocktails, or just to have it with a splash of tonic, head along to the Traverse Bar, 10 Cambridge St, Edinburgh.