If beer is not your thing, there is also a long list of 1950s-inspired cocktails, including martinis.
Its customers drink dry Martinis with twists of citrus peel beneath Art Deco lighting and modernist artworks.
Where else can you sip apple martinis alongside the likes of Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman and Denzel Washington?
This is where Ian Fleming came to drink martinis and jot notes for his Bond novels.
But if they started serving martinis we might actually see some real progress to resolving this crisis.
There is a limit of three, because as the menu tells you, three martinis at lunchtime is enough.
For a scandalous story or two, head to the bar -- bartender Johnny has been pouring martinis since the Rat Pack ruled town.
The result of too many spicy burritos, chocolate sundaes, pepperoni pizzas, thick T-bones and vodka martinis consumed over too many years.
After three martinis my friend switches to a local brew of Budweiser, salt and a hard-boiled egg plopped in a glass.
It aims for a prohibition-era New York speakeasy vibe and, as the name would suggest, offers a wide range of martinis.
Drinks are appropriately stiff, and Bemelmans' excellent martinis come with a small decanter full of the drink that could not fit into your glass.
To this day, the hotel's bar is renowned for its very strong martinis, which you can order shaken, stirred or however you like.
Some fox kitsch remains--a mural behind the bar depicts Copley employees as foxes, reading newspapers and drinking martinis--but now the vibe is more decorous.
So vodka stuck, but in Mr. Palazzi's opinion, the best martinis are always made with gin, as it adds a little more complexity and flavor.
Gone are the days in which lunch was a leisurely act that lasted for well over an hour and included the staples of steak and martinis.
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Dan Rostenkowski, the steak-and-martinis Chicago Democrat who reigned over the House Ways and Means Committee for 13 years, used to write off many of his golf outings as campaign expenditures.
Apparently this is a sharper irony than debating the excesses of capitalism over crabcakes and martinis at the Harvard Club (both served in excessive quantities, and were delicious).
Steal a kiss over mega martinis atop the Stratosphere Tower, clasp hands as you watch the Bellagio's dancing fountains or hide out with your paramour in a deluxe suite all weekend.
Ernest Hemingway lived on the small island chain in the Bahamas from 1935-1937 and famously drank vodka martinis, extra dry with olives, inside the Compleat Angler Hotel, which burned down in 2006.
The promised land at day's end, where gelid martinis--conical pools of bliss--glow with platinum dew and sit atop their long pelican legs on the mahogany bar, sentries overlooking bowls of salty nuts.
We headed to Wild Honey, which appeared to be the poshest restaurant in town, and ordered dirty martinis with blue-cheese olives and a dozen local Pine Island oysters with pineapple mignonette.
As for myself, I drank martinis last weekend and watched only the Jets-Pats game, thus steering clear of the Bombeck multi-game death sentence (although the martinis certainly created a different kind of coma).
Indeed, during a visit earlier this summer, business was brisk at a Ravella hotel bar which has Tuscan-inspired views of manicured hedges surrounding a fire pit, with customers sipping martinis and noshing on pappardelle with veal meatballs.
Every Bond movie gets the basics right, from the iconic 007 logo, to the iconic music, the bulletproof story line, the exotic locations, the foes we love to hate, and, of course, the martinis, shaken not stirred.
We mixed martinis by headlamp and ate three different just-add-water camping meals from AlpineAire and Mountain House on a white tablecloth, followed by ice cream made fresh in a contraption that looks like a hamster ball.
The mix of flavors is also very important, and some gins are specifically designed to be consumed in a purer state, like martinis or gin and tonics, while more flavorful ones typically are meant for more complicated cocktails.
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