Name: Piccadilly Martini
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Gin; 25 ml Dry vermouth; 2.5 ml Grenadine syrup; 1.25 ml Absinthe

Ingredients

1 ²⁄₃ fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

⁵⁄₆ fl oz

Strucchi Dry Vermouth

¹⁄₁₂ fl oz

Monin Grenadine Syrup

¹⁄₂₄ fl oz

La Fée Parisienne absinthe

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a MARTINI GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Piccadilly Martini contains 152 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
25.95% alc./vol. (51.9° proof)
20.5 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Comments & Discussion

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adrian lord 2y

I’ve just made a variant using blue Curaçao instead of grenadine, and Dolin blanc vermouth. It’s lovely and clean and elegant.

adrian lord 3y

Just sipping my first Piccadilly - I used Bols grenadine syrup, perhaps slightly too much. Personally I like to get the Absinthe coming through with definition, so wouldn’t dial that back too much. It’s a gorgeous drink whatever the variance, I am sure.

John Hinojos Premium Member 5y

I really liked this. Being that I like dry cocktails, I did cut back on the sugar syrup. Very flavourful. Will try again with the blue curacao.

Richard Elgar Premium Member 5y

In fact, I decided to go with a riff on this, and create a blue "Piccadilly Line Martini". A bit drier, so it might need a tad of sweetening to balance the absinthe.
https://www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/recipe/7079/piccadilly-line-martini

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 5y

I've just revisited the Piccadilly Martini again, and yet again I've cut the absinthe back. I've also added some sugar. The difference in colour varies between the use of homemade and commercial grenadine and we'll reshoot ASAP. As you say, Richard, given the name perhaps it's the blue curacao rather than the grenadine I should be reaching for.