The Lucky Accomplice’s bar manager Corey Moszer is thinking outside the box – and if you love a savory cocktail, the Martini Scorsese has your name on it.
While the Fox Park restaurant’s kitchen uses fermented tomato water as a base for broths, Moszer uses it as the starting point for this savory cocktail, which has a zippy, salsa-tinged taste. Moszer combines the tomato water with Roku gin, dry and nutty manzanilla sherry, a dash of salty MSG and red pepper pickle brine. The final ingredient is an olive oil-washed vodka that Moszer makes in-house. The vodka has a viscous texture and heft, and when shaken it develops a foam that helps to deliver the drink’s aromatic flavors. The finishing touch is a pickled tomato garnish. It’s a mashup of a clarified bloody mary and the saltiest dirty martini you’ve ever had.
2501 S. Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314.354.6100, theluckyaccomplice.com
This article appears in July 2024.