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mini-TiniBigsmartinis.JPGWhat a workload, what a record! For close to ten years, 3,500 nights in a row, the barkeeps at Tini Bigs have been shaking, stirring & pouring. Not to mention researching, developing & testing, testing, testing. (Who can say as much? 13 Coins and Denny's, those always-open stalwarts, don't have the same reputation for innovative drinks, to say the least.) To celebrate, owner Keith Robbins dropped the price of libations to $3.50...for a couple of hours.

Meantime, lead bartender Aaron Marshall was named Seattle's Best in a poll of Seattle Weekly readers, and the drink given its name by your faithful correspondent, the Burning-Man Tini, was voted Best Specialty Cocktail. Recipe: Mazama chili-pepper vodka mixed with chocolate liqueur, topped with sweetened cream; glass rimmed with cocoa powder and cayenne; garnished with dried Thai chili.

Footnote: The Burning Man's original moniker was Vulcan. Concern was that Paul Allen, developer of nearby South Lake Union, would not have been amused. Good call.

Tini Bigs, 100 Denny Way, 206-284-0931

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By Ronald in on August 4, 2006 11:49 AM

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  • Dunno, didn't ask him directly. Doubt that he's a customer; maybe he's the landlord. For that matter, I doubt that any self-respecting Burners would drink a martini made with Mazama chili-pepper vodka, at least not on the Playa ...

  • "Footnote: The Burning Man's original moniker was Vulcan. Concern was that Paul Allen, developer of nearby South Lake Union, would not have been amused. Good call."



    What? Paul can steal the name from "Star Trek" (which in turn copped it from the Roman name for the Greek God Hephaestus, god of fire, volcanoes, metallurgy & weapon-making), but he'd get upset that someone else stole it to name a martini?



    That would be a bit hypocritical of him, no?

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