Award-winning London-based bartender Ryan Chetiyawardana takes "CBS Saturday Morning" behind the bar to make the perfect martini.

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Ryan Chetiyawardana, also known as Mr. Lion, is at the forefront of London's cocktail innovation. At his bar Lioness, he uses unconventional ingredients such as smoked camel milk, iron fish, and even penicillin mold to create drinks that are unlike any others in the world. Chetiyawardana's approach combines culinary techniques and global flavors, earning his bar the industry's highest accolades. 

In addition to his inventive cocktails, Chetiyawardana demonstrates the art of making a classic martini, emphasizing the importance of technique, temperature, and dilution. Despite his global success and celebrity clientele, he prefers the title of bartender, focusing on hospitality and the overall guest experience.

Making the perfect martini

Overlooking one of London's most iconic views. Welcome to lion's. She is to go run by Ryan Chetna warden a better known as Mister lion. A man who's redefining what a cocktail can be a cocktail bar can present. There's something iconic about it, you know, you know being able to sit there with a martini glass or something like that that feels like you're a million bucks but make no mistake these cocktails are like no other spirits mixed with unheard of ingredients like smoked camel milk, iron fish and kick cap flavored me so pace. And alcohol infused alchemy Chetna warden and his team try to capture his tiny basement prep kitchen. You know when you say prep kitchen, you don't always come into a prep kitchen and see a block of wood suspended in liquid. There's also fungal spores microbes and fermentations of all kinds. We used to make a penicillin mold that we've used to make penicillin penicillin yeah, yeah in a drink absolutely a very delicious one is it legal, I mean absolutely yeah, legal absolutely safe. Back in the bar and it's one of several cocktail ingredients found on the menu that confuses and delights in equal measure. Smoked camel milk, yeah, that's great by the. I have to try it. I can also be very confident saying these are things that don't exist anywhere else on the planet. A cocktail of highly curated chaos. Chetna warden has been developing for over a decade from his first bar white lion which attracted celebrities like Beyonce and Jay-Z to silver lion in Washington DC super lion in Amsterdam and now London's lioness which has just been awarded the bar world's equivalent of 3 Michelin stars. The 40 year-old isn't just a maverick drinkmaker is also a global brand cry on camera. Mister Lyons taste trips takes him around the world. Tokyo to Madrid, a blending flavor philosophy. Slash cheers says this is the one where we've used that big hunk of wood, how do you take this smoky fruity whiskey like at the same time so we blitz that would up and then we transform that into a kombucha and we tried what's been voted one of the world's best and it's called the unfiltered martini unfiltered martini what makes this an unfiltered martini. It is 2 ingredients, one of them is fairly normal to bodies of the body base base Walker from Ireland. The other is potatoes. I'm going to break the 4th wall here you have to haha we also couldn't resist getting checked in a war tonight to give us a lesson in his favorite drink, the classic martini. I'll do it again martini okay, and then took you to a vocalist to it. So the key we're going to use a metal tin to mix in the beauty of is they don't break and then we're going to put a big old scoop of ice and that's a few dice. The time is is a very very important. But also is so is the temperature and the texture of it we'll start with some of the moves for the gin martini I'm going to use about tablespoons of 15 mills of the from its where is for the vocal mighty now, I know you like it dry idea to attempt to with a little touch so if you want to put it almost just like half this little tiny half teaspoon and that's the smallest little so it up there says we have 15 mils of of all. The myth in this one, I'm going to use 50 mils of gin so you're going to do a little over probably 60 miles so you got to do the big part first so I'm going to give you a Boston okay, and you got to pop it down the side up and if you see it kind of sits against the edge. What you said you can do get a pull it back and push it away from you was hugging the inside of the cup and it means the ice starts to move as one big block so when we're stirring this what are we trying to achieve we're trying to achieve both a kind of wonderful kind of marriage of of not only the spirit and the vermouth yeah, but the dilution from the ice as well and what you got to do is get to take your strainer one finger over the top to hold the back and then essentially you're just slowly pouring close to the surface of the liquid twist or not I'm a twist kind of a full yeah, you don't need to get too much of this is just an accent using it just a flick out some of those oil so when we say martini with the twist, it's quite literally just a little twist a twist. Oh wow and I just saw something that's sort of like beautiful those are going and you can drop it in if you want. This is the first party of everybody just to get it. There's just a lot. Thank you very much. That hit the spot. Yeah. A jet new partners successes are soaring, but he wants to be known as one thing. I use the term bartender like that that's where I've always kind of gravitated to on it and I like I like the term bartender because it feels more encompassing yes, of course I care about the drinks but actually it's about kind of going are you looking after somebody are you thinking about the music are you kind of curating the room in that kind of wider sense, that's what a good good part of this.

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