Shake, Stir, Sip - Your Way

A mason jar filled with Virgin Bloody Mary cocktail garnished with green olives, celery, and basil leaves. A small white bowl of green olives with a toothpick, a basil sprig, and a bottle of Bloody Mary mix are also on the table.

Here are a few of our favourite cocktails, but don’t let us tell you what to do.  Add a splash of the strong stuff and make it yours. Marty’s isn’t just for Bloody Marys (though we love those too).

  • Try a Bloody Maria with tequila, mezcal, or Mahala Botanical’s AF Amber.

  • Keep it crisp with a London Dry Gin & Marty’s.

  • Or go all-in on savoury with a Michelada - beer and Marty’s over ice.

  • Feeling adventurous? Add a splash of pickle brine, olive juice, or even kimchi juice - Marty’s personal favourite. Mix it up. You won’t regret it.

Zandaleen, wearing a black chef's coat, holding a Herby Bloody Mary cocktail garnished with a cucumber slice, sitting on a bench outdoors with greenery and brick wall in the background.

Zandeleen's Herby Bloody

  • Ingredients  

    • 1 Spicy Marty's Virgin Bloody Mary

    • 5 ml gin

    • 10 ml soda water

    • 1 sprig rosemary

    • 1 sprig basil

    Instructions

    • Muddle the rosemary and basil at the bottom of your glass to release their flavors.

    • Add the gin, Marty's Virgin Bloody Mary mix, and ice. Stir well.

    • Top off the cocktail with soda water.

    • Garnish with a sprig of rosemary and a ribbon of cucumber. Enjoy!

    Add more herbs if you prefer a stronger herb flavour 

  • Enjoy a cocktail anytime you need a holiday.

A cocktail glass with salt rim, containing a layered michelada topped with foam and a straw, placed on a white circular surface alongside a bottle of Rooibos cordial and a dried flower arrangement.

Two in the Bush Spicy Michelada cocktail

  • (Serves 2)

    INGREDIENTS:
    - Enough sea salt to rim 2 glasses
    - A lime wedge
    - 1 chilled bottle of Marty’s spiced tomato, or tomato juice of your choice
    - 1 chilled bottle lager beer
    - 100ml Two in a Bush Honeybush Cordial
    - A few slices of fresh chilli (you decide how hot you like it)
    - Dash of Tabasco sauce
    - Juice of half a lime

    1. Grind fresh sea salt onto a plate. Run the lime wedge around the rim of your
    serving glasses to dampen the rim. Dip the rim of glasses into mixture.
    2. Pour the tomato juice and beer in the glasses. Add 50ml Two in a Bush
    Honeybush cordial, a few sliced chillies, Tabasco and fresh lime juice to each
    glass.
    3. Stir and sip.

    *For variation add freshly grounded black pepper and celery salt according to
    taste.

  • A delicious low-alcohol cocktail, with Diabetes SA approved Marty’s and
    Two in a Bush.

A table with several empty glasses, bottles of Virgin Bloody Mary and a Bottle of Soughton Grange's Alpaca Gin.

Stoughton Grange’s Alpaca Snapper

  • 1 chilled bottle of Marty’s Virgin Bloody Mary

    50ml Stoughton Grange’s Alpaca Gin

    In glass add Alpaca Gin and Marty’s Virgin Bloody Mary and mix thoroughly. Add your desired garnish and enjoy.

  • Great drink for Sundays

A glass of spicy tomato juice with lime wedges on a wooden board, flanked by two bottles of Marty's spicy tomato juice and Virgin Bloody Mary.

‘Marty’s Red Snapper’ by @cupcakes_and_couscous

  • 1 chilled bottle of Marty’s Spiced Tomato Juice

    A few drops of Black Mamba Cayenne Chilli Sauce

    50ml Cape Town Classic Dry Gin

    Lime wedge

    Funky Ouma Chilli Salt

    Grind the Funky Ouma Chilli Salt onto a plate. Run the lime wedge around the rim of your serving glass to dampen the rim and dip the rim of the glass into the mixture.

    In a mixing glass, add Cape Town Classic Dry Gin and few drops of Black Mamba Cayenne Chilli Sauce (go wild if you like it really hot) to Spiced Tomato Juice and mix thoroughly. Fill the rimmed serving glass with ice and the Red Snapper. Add your desired garnish and enjoy.

  • Enjoy a cocktail anytime you need a holiday.

@foodie.south.africa holding a glass with a spicy tomato juice labeled 'Marty's' and 'Spicy'. The jar is garnished with basil leaves and Droewors.

‘The Boere Mary’ by @foodie.south.africa

  • It's not easy breaking with tradition. When cultures clash, often a synergy is ignited. I present to you The Boere Mary.

    It's a matrimony of flavours separated by continents and an epoch of history. The Boer and The Brit for once in harmonious step.

    Marty’s Virgin Bloody Mary, Cape Town Classic Dry Gin, Black Mamba Cayenne Chilli Sauce and Smoked Oryx Salt. Dip the Droewors in the Funky Ouma’s Chilli Salt and garnish use to garnish.

  • A long standing tradition from my days on stage and after-show parties with Bohemian friends

Cocktail served in a glass jar labeled 'Marty's Spicy Tomato Juice', garnished with green celery leaves, green olives stuffed with pimento, a lemon wedge, and a small shot of hot sauce, on a wooden surface.

‘Smoky Virgin Bloody Mary’ by @delishmonster

  • 1 chilled bottle of Marty’s Virgin Bloody Mary

    50ml Mahalo Amber non-alcoholic spirit

    Lime wedge

    Oryx Smoked Salt

    Grind the Oryx Smoked Salt onto a plate. Run the lime wedge around the rim of your serving glass to dampen the rim and dip the rim of the glass into the mixture.

    In a mixing glass add Mahalo Amber non-alcoholic spirit to Marty’s Virgin Bloody Mary and mix thoroughly. Fill the rimmed serving glass with ice and the Smoky Virgin Bloody Mary. Add your desired garnish and enjoy.

  • Great drink for Sundays

Three tomato-based cocktails with lime wedges and black pepper on a wooden table, viewed from above at Kleinsky's.

Kleinsky’s ‘Bloody Mary Fridays’

  • Bloody Mary Elixirs to the rescue! Vodka, Marty's, pickle brine, celery stick, horseradish, Tabasco, and a pickle spear.

  • Kleinsky’s Delicatessan in Seapoint, Cape Town

A glass filled with a drink topped with a large rasher of bacon, salt around the rim, and a bottle of Marty's Spiced Tomato Juice next to it on a wooden table outside.

The Drinkery’s ‘Hail Mary’

  • Marty’s Spiced Tomato Juice, Tito’s Vodka, raw cape honey, dry vermouth, fresh lime juice, olive brine, cucumber bitters, Maldon sea salt & spicy pork crackling.

  • The Drinkery in Cape Town CBD

Two bottles of Marty's spicy tomato juice, a glass filled with a Bloody Joseph (with Scotch Whisky) garnished with celery, lemon, pickles, and celery, with a Christmas tree and decorations in the background.

‘Bloody Joseph’ by @jeanharkett

  • 60ml Blended Scotch whisky

    120ml Marty’s Virgin Bloody Mary

    15ml freshly squeezed lemon juice

    8 drops of Chilli sauce

    pinch of salt

    Add all ingredients to a shaker and drain into an ice filled glass. Garnish with celery, falafel ball, gherkin and lemon wedge.

  • Save this for a special brunch, like boxing day. You will love it if you like a spicier Bloody Mary.

A Red Snapper garnished with olives, pickles, a sprig of rosemary, and a salted rim, next to a bottle of Virgin Mary spiced tomato juice, on a silver tray with ice cubes.

Marty’s Red Snapper

  • Marty’s with a shot of Gin (London Dry is recommended but you can please yourself) and olives to garnish.

  • Somewhere fancy

A Bloody Maria garnished with a lime wedge and a celery stalk, placed on a decorative coaster with a bottle of hot sauce in the background and green leaves nearby.

‘Marty’s Bloody Maria’ by @jeanharkett

  • Add a 50ml shot of Tequila, a bar spoon of prepared horseradish and a few dashes of Sriracha for a real kick.

  • Best served at home

A tiki mug filled with a Bloody Mary cocktail, garnished with a lime wedge and chili powder rim, with bottles of Bloody Mary mix and limes in the background.

Marty’s Michelada

  • Classic Michelada Ingredients include beer, lime juice, and Marty’s Spiced Tomato Juice, served in a salt-rimmed glass.

  • Anywhere you like