Cocktail: M Train | Bartender: Josh Lindley

Patti Smith has aged into the truly remarkable storyteller and poet we always, she always, knew she would. In her 2015 book M Train she reflects on her life and the lives of her favourite writers and poets while sipping on coffee. Sometimes the coffee is great and the setting is lacklustre. Other times it is vice versa. She visits many locales and each cup of coffee brings on a new memory or idea. This cocktail will feel like you are gazing through the window of a cafe, thinking about Patti Smith. Or maybe thinking about Patti Smith thinking about Jean Genet.

Photo: Jessica Blaine Smith

2 oz Lot 40 Rye Whisky
1 oz Kahlua
0.5 oz Dry Vermouth

Combine all ingredients in mixing glass. Fill with ice and stir for 25 seconds. Strain into absinthe-rinsed cocktail glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.

Josh Lindley

Co-Creator at Bartender Atlas

Josh Lindley has been bartending in Toronto since 2007. Before working for Hendrick's Gin as a Brand Ambassador he was bar manager at Campagnolo and a hired gun at Bar Isabel before working at Chantecler, Le Phenix and Eataly. He has contributed to many magazines, tv shows and newspapers with his recipes and opinions. He recently put his diploma in Radio Broadcasting from Humber College to good use through The Blackbird audio documentary. Currently pouring at Civl Liberties and teaching cocktail classes for Evelyn Chick's Love of Cocktails, he enjoys being an ambassador to Toronto and talking about horror movies, punk rock and basketball.