Had a pretty good one earlier this week: Ciroc, a little dirty, blue cheese-stuffed olives at Bob's Steakhouse in the Omni Hotel in San Francisco.

My favorite is still a vodka martini (with your choice of vodka) with blue-cheese stuffed olives (you can see my preference) at Red Square at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. The vodka is nice and cold, and the top of the bar is even made of ice!

For non-traditionalists, you can find all sorts of great stuff put in martinis nowadays -- I had one recently with anchovy-stuffed olives. Excellent!

By the way, this is off-topic, but I just discovered the "Bloody Mary Bar" at Mon Ami Gabi at the Paris in Las Vegas. What a great innovation -- they bring you your choice of vodka, and then the do-it-yourself bar has a handful of tomato juices/bloody mary mixes, dozens of hot and worcestershire sauces, dry spices, all different types of veggies, etc. I would highly recommend it, and have never seen anything like it.