Spice Valentine's Day up with a Tini Bigs' Ménage à Trois Martini

This Valentine's Day, suggest a Ménage à Trois to spice things up with your significant other - both of you + a really good martini.

From the Tini Bigs Big Martinis book comes this recipe for a Ménage à Trois martini:
2 ounces Bacardi O rum
1 ounce Disaronno Originale amaretto
1/2 ounce orange juice
1/2 ounce pineapple juice
1/2 ounce fresh sweet-and-sour mix*
1 wedge each of lemon, lime and orange
1 ounce champagne

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Pour in rum and amaretto. Add orange juice, pineapple juice and sweet-and-sour mix. Add lemon, lime and orange wedges. Muddle contents vigorously, then strain into a big martini glass and finish with a gentle pour of champagne on top. Serve with a twist - like a true Ménage à Trois.

*Sweet-and-sour Mix:
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
1 cup fresh lemon juice
1 cup fresh lime juice
1/4 cup fresh orange juice

Combine sugar and water until all the sugar is dissolved. Add lemon, lime and orange juices and refrigerate.

Cupid calls for a Flir-Tini from Tini Bigs

This Valentine's Day a Tini Bigs' Flir-Tini is just what Cupid ordered! Win a heart with this indulgent martini, recipe courtesy of Seattle's Martini mecca, Tini Bigs.

Flir-Tini
3 ounces Bacardi Vanilla rum
2 ounces Bailey's Irish Cream
1/2 ounce white creme de cacao liqueur

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add rum, Irish Cream and creme de cacao. Shake vigorously and strain into a big martini glass. As it says in Tini Big's menu, "Garnish with someone else's phone number."

TWO NEW YEAR’S EVE BASHES, ONE $10 COVER

TWO NEW YEAR’S EVE BASHES, ONE $10 COVER

Tini Bigs and Hula Hula Ring in the New Year with Class and Kitsch

December 31, 8 p.m.

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SEATTLE, Wash.—(December 22, 2009)— Tini Bigs, Seattle’s martini mecca and its adjoining sister bar Hula Hula are ringing in the New Year with a two-for-one party that will appeal to the kitschy, the classy and the thrifty- all under one roof.

• WHO: Tini Bigs and Hula Hula Lounge
  
• WHAT: Two Bars, One Cover New Year’s Eve Bash
  • Tickets are $10 for the first 200 tickets; $25 after until day of the event and can be purchased by calling either location.
  • Party favors and midnight countdown in the shadow of the Space Needle
  • HouseDJBo spinning Top 40 dance music
  • Special appetizer menu
  • Reserved tables available for parties up to six for $200 (does not include tickets)
  
• WHERE: Tini Bigs - 100 Denny Way, Seattle
  Hula Hula - 106 1st Avenue North, Seattle
  
• WHEN: Thursday, December 31
  4:00 p.m. – Tini Bigs Opens
  8:00 p.m. – Hula Hula Opens

Tini Bigs is located at the bottom of Queen Anne and the top of Belltown at 100 Denny Way, near the Seattle Center. Hours are 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. daily. Food is served until 10 p.m. Recently honored by Food & Wine magazine as one of the “Top 100 Bars in America 2009,” Tini Bigs features its award-winning signature martinis along with Prohibition-era classic cocktails and globally inspired contemporary cocktails. The bar has been open for 4,768 consecutive days. To learn more about Tini Bigs Lounge, visit www.tinibigs.com, or call (206) 284-0931.

Hula Hula is a haven of cosmopolitan Polynesian kitsch nestled in the heart of Seattle’s urban concrete jungle. The lounge features a wide selection of classic and contemporary exotic cocktails from the popular Mai Tai to the Caipirinha Slushie. Offering happy hour seven days a week from 4 to 6 p.m. and from 10 p.m. to midnight, Hula Hula is located at 106 First Ave. N. and is open 4 p.m. to close. To learn more about Hula Hula visit www.hulahula.org or call (206) 284-5003.

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Media Contact: Andrea Courtney
Randall PR / (206) 624-5757

FORGET THE MILK: COCKTAILS WITH MR. CLAUS at TINI BIGS

FORGET THE MILK: COCKTAILS WITH MR. CLAUS at TINI BIGS

Take a Sip and Snap a Pic with Jolly Old St. Nick

December 11, 9 p.m.

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SEATTLE, Wash.—(December 4, 2009)— Don’t tell Mrs. Claus! Before his trip around the world, Santa’s parking his sleigh atop Seattle’s martini mecca, Tini Bigs, for a night of drinkin’ and photo snappin’ on Friday, December 11.

Sip on one of Tini Bigs’ signature martinis (a Dirty Girl Scout perhaps?) and muster the courage to tell the big guy in the red suit what’s on the Christmas list. For $10 cash, Totten Photography will capture the memory and provide proof that St. Nick does exist with a 5”x 7” you can frame and hang on the wall. Why should the little kids have all the fun?

• WHO: Tini Bigs Lounge
  
• WHAT: Cocktails with Mr. Claus
  $10 (cash only) for a custom 5”x 7” print
  
• WHERE: Tini Bigs
  100 Denny Way, Seattle
  
• WHEN: Friday, December 11
  9:00 p.m.

Tini Bigs is located at the bottom of Queen Anne and the top of Belltown at 100 Denny Way, near the Seattle Center. Hours are 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. daily. Food is served until 10 p.m. Recently honored by Food & Wine magazine as one of the “Top 100 Bars in America 2009,” Tini Bigs features its award-winning signature martinis along with Prohibition-era classic cocktails and globally inspired contemporary cocktails. The bar has been open for 4,750 consecutive days. To learn more about Tini Bigs Lounge, visit www.tinibigs.com, or call (206) 284-0931.

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Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good nightcap!

Media Contact: Andrea Courtney
Randall PR / (206) 624-5757

Dirty Girl Scout Tini
From Tini Bigs’ Big Martini Book

Ingredients:
3 ounces Crater Lake Hazelnut Espresso vodka
1 ounce chocolate liqueur
Splash (¼ ounce) of white crème de menthe
Graham cracker crumbs
Heavy sweetened cream*

*In a jar or container with a tight lid, combine 1 part Kahlúa, 1 part rock candy syrup and 2 parts heavy whipping cream, leaving room for the contents to mix. Shake vigorously until the mixture becomes frothy.

Directions:
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Pour vodka and chocolate liqueur into the shaker. Add crème de menthe and stir. Rim a big martini glass with graham cracker crumbs. Strain the contents of the cocktail shaker into the martini glass. Gently float a layer of heavy sweetened cream on top.

Tini Bigs Classic Back Bar Turns 100 Years Old

Tini Bigs Classic Back Bar Turns 100 Years Old
Birthday Party Kicks Off Series of Events November 11, 6 p.m.

SEATTLE, Wash.—(November 2, 2009)—The century mark is lucky for Tini Bigs, Seattle’s exalted martini mecca. Not only have they been named one of the “Top 100 bars in America” by Food & Wine magazine, but their gorgeous, classic back bar is about to celebrate its 100th birthday.

Tini Bigs is launching a month-long series of free celebrations to commemorate their local piece of history:

Back Bar Birthday Bash
November 11, 6 p.m. to close
Tini Bigs “10 ounce” Finlandia martinis $4.50
West Village Manhattan cocktail* $5.50 (regularly $10.50)
Stella beers $3
All-night happy hour
Cake cutting at 7 p.m. with Owner Keith Robbins
(*Cocktail took 2nd place in the Woodford Reserve Manhattan Cocktail Contest)

The Ultimate-Patrón Wednesday Night
November 18, 7 p.m. to close
Patrón tequila and Ultimate vodka’s Northwest area manager Rob Astle was one of the original Tini Bigs regulars that helped install the back bar. He will be on hand to answer questions about the spirits and how they are used in cocktail creations.
Ultimate vodka drink specials
Patrón tequila specials
All-night happy hour

Wild Turkey Thanksgiving Bash
November 25, 7 p.m. to close
Wild Turkey cocktail specials will put guests in the T-Day mood and a special turkey dinner themed appetizer menu will be offered.

Says Robbins, “If this bar could talk, boy would it have stories to tell. We’re looking forward to raising our glasses to its next hundred years—and hope it continues to keep our secrets.”

About the Bar:
Made in 1909 by Brunswick-Balke-Collender, the then name of the company best recognized today—as simply “Brunswick”—for manufacturing billiards and bowling equipment. Crafted in Dubuque, Iowa of reclaimed wood, it was “Green” long before recycling became fashionable. Its pre-Prohibition Seattle home was the Watertown Tavern (at First and Bell), where Tini Bigs founder Keith Robbins first set eyes on it and fell in love. Watertown was closed when the building was converted to low-income housing, so Robbins rescued the bar, tucking it away until a perfect home could be found.

In 1990, Robbins opened a new bar near the corner of First and Denny and dubbed it The Romper Room. When the space next door became available, he dusted off the gorgeous wood-and-mirror back bar after seven years in storage, and it became the heart, soul and focal point of Tini Bigs Lounge.

Tini Bigs is located at the bottom of Queen Anne and the top of Belltown at 100 Denny Way, near the Seattle Center. Hours are 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. daily. Food is served until 10 p.m. Recently honored by Food & Wine magazine as one of the “Top 100 Bars in America 2009,” Tini Bigs features its award-winning signature martinis along with prohibition-era classic cocktails and globally inspired contemporary cocktails. The bar has been open for 4718 consecutive days. To learn more about Tini Bigs Lounge visit www.tinibigs.com, or call (206) 284-0931.

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Media Contact: Andrea Courtney

Randall PR / (206) 624-5757