Caperberry Martini

Move aside olives!

We love a martini before dinner. Caperberries are the garnish of choice for our November menu. They’re bright and briny and make an excellent martini garnish, and the brine can be used to make it dirty. Caperberries are actually from the same plant as capers — capers are the flower buds, and if left to bloom, they turn into caperberries, the fruit of the plant.

Like any martini — feel free to adjust the vermouth as you like it.

Caper Berry Martini
makes 1 cocktail

shopping list —

• 2 oz gin or vodka

• 1 oz dry vermouth

• caperberries for garnish

• caperberry brine — for a dirty martini

• ice cubes

equipment —

• jigger

• cocktail shaker

• martini glass

steps —

1. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice, and add the gin or vodka, vermouth, and caperberry brine if making it dirty.

2. Stir well and strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a caperberry on a cocktail pick.

Travel tip!: If visiting Denver, and you want a filthy martini — order like a local and ask for it Colfax style:)
P.S. I live there:)