Last Friday, Double Down Saloon owner and experimental mixologist P Moss was alerted that his bacon martini had once again made headlines ... and he was pissed. Though the bacon-infused beverage’s creation has been documented by the likes of Esquire, Rolling Stone, the New York Post and the BBC, it seems the April issue of Los Angeles magazine contained a feature on one Santa Monica gastropub owner Sang Yoon, who claimed the concoction as his own “greatest invention.”
“We don’t have a monopoly on it; it was never intended to be that. But I was confident that however many people sold this, history would know that it was invented here at the Double Down. I’m just pissed. It’s a point of pride with me,” counters Moss, who learned of the story from the host of an alcohol-themed radio program and fired off a record-straightening letter to the editor of Los Angeles magazine over the weekend. “In Las Vegas, we may have erected a Sphinx and a pyramid and an Eiffel Tower, but we don’t claim them to be original. But the bacon martini is a definite Las Vegas original.”