"A venerable London bar whose time-honored martini ritual—served in a frost-chilled glass with frozen gin, only a trace of vermouth and finished with a lemon twist, and adamantly never with added ice—has become the archetype of the 'proper' martini. Its exacting preparation and association with high-society taste have turned the drink into a cultural shorthand for sophistication and precision, and that recipe is explicitly cited in popular film as the definitive martini." - Bettina Makalintal