Blue Cheese/Olive Martinis Similar to 28 Degrees?

[meeps2002]

Recently had the most delicious martini with blue cheese stuffed olives at 28 Degrees. Does anyone know any other fun spots within Boston-proper to have something similar? Would love to have one frou-frou martini to cap off a long week.

Thanks!

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28 Degrees
1 Appleton St., Boston, MA 02116

[nsenada]

Petit Robert in Needham definitely has them.

[hotoynoodle]

bleu cheese stuffed olives are pretty standard bar condiments just about anyplace.

[MC Slim JB]

Really? I expect to see bleu-cheese-stuffed olives at a certain kind of bar attached to an upscale restaurant that serves a lot of savory-leaning martinis of vodka and gin to a crowd dominated by drinkers in their 40s and 50s, like luxury steakhouse chain outlets.

But I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that practically every craft cocktail bar in town, and most bars whose cocktail lists cater to younger drinkers with a raft of sweetish, flavored-vodka martinis, do not offer that as a garnish option.

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[Alcachofa]

They also cannot be found at any of the millions of "Irish" "pubs" around town.

The West Side does have them, and they make good drinks and good food. Off topic, but I had an amazing brunch there a coupla months ago. Yes, brunch! Highly recommend.

[hotoynoodle]

i'll confess to not being a frequent patron of certain kinds of bars, but "dirty martinis" seem to be popular even with the kids.

[MC Slim JB]

Oh, indeed: lots of briny vodka being poured around town, for sure! I've heard it called, "my least favorite cocktail to make" by a number of excellent Boston bartenders. I still suspect that a lot of bars doing land business in dirty vodka martinis don't have bleu-stuffed olives.

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[hotoynoodle]

it's a "drink" i truly don't get. a spirit polluted with industrial olive brine.

[MC Slim JB]

Ethanol, water, and salt. Plus there's the wink-wink-nudge-nudge "Make mine 'extra dirty', tee-hee!" Blech.

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[MC Slim JB]

If it's bleu-stuffed olives in particular you're looking for, I vaguely remember these at West Side Lounge in Cambridge.

It is true that Blue Inc. does some very interesting cocktails; the novelty does not stop at liquid nitrogen.

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West Side Lounge
1680 Mass Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

[barleywino]

do one of the liquid nitrogen martini's at Blue Inc.