The Martini Menu Is Back. Are We Happy?

Is the Return of Multiple "Martinis" on Bar Menus Good or Bad for Cocktails?

Martinis. You’ve got choices now.

I wasn’t writing about cocktails during the first heyday of the “Martini Menu,” which was roughly from the late 1980s to the early aughts. It was only when doing research into the Bad Ol’ Days of the 1990s for my 2019 book The Martini Cocktail that I spent quality times with the long sheets of “‘tinis” routinely handed …