After finishing my clean eating challenge, the lovely Kate at microbarbox sent me one of their variety boxes to try out – perfect timing! The Concept: The boxes include around 4 different drinks and a couple of snacks – similar to a minibar, but obviously smaller – hence the name! You can get a gift…
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Hendricks bus in Bath
It’s not a bus it’s MA’AM – the Mobile Academy of Alchemical Meanderings! Aka a bus Meandering around selling Hendricks cocktails for the tidy price of £4.50! Currently it’s in Bath for a gintastic bank holiday weekend. They are selling three different cocktails – including The Perfect Serve Hendricks and Tonic. This is obviously with…
TASTE Clover Club Cocktail Box
The completion of my clean eating challenge finally allows me to break out the Taste Cocktail box I’ve had hanging around for a while. The idea of this is a box of alcohol and appropriate mixers to make a particular cocktail and variations thereof. Small portions come perfectly wrapped in the box ready for you…
Tasting Ferdinand’s Quince Gin
As part of my favourite gin bar’s promotion of their Gin of Month, The Oliver Conquest holds a FREE gin tasting once a month. This month the only day I had to break the clean eating challenge was to taste Ferdinand’s new Quince gin liqueur. The Ferdinand family – original gin with 30 botanticals on the…
Girls dinner @ Maze
The girls and I have decided to start a dinner club – we basically look for the best deals at the best restaurants London has to offer and then take full advantage! This month we headed to Maze – part of Gordon Ramsay’s portfolio – on Grosvenor Square. The deal was from Open Table –…
Cocktail Crazy in Kentish Town
OMG there is loads going on in Kentish Town at the moment! I decided that Easter weekend was the best time to visit two new subterranean cocktail bars on Kentish Town High Street – Ladies and Gentlemen and Knowhere Special. Ladies and Gents, as you might have guessed, is housed inside an old public conveniences:…
Girls dinner @ Roux at the Landau
Monday night is the new Friday night right?? Well when you have a good deal of £35 for 3 courses & a glass of wine at a prestigious restaurant like Roux at the Landau, Monday night is as good a night as any to try it out! also it’s official – Monday night is martini…
Half Hitch Gin Cocktails
In December The Oliver Conquest’s gin of the month was a local one – Half Hitch from Camden – and I had the chance to taste it with Gin Club with a Reading Problem. This post is focused on the cocktails we drank that evening, so you can recreate them at home 🙂 Gin and…
Mussel Men!
Last month, for a flatmate dinner, Laura and I decided to visit Mussel Men for their Lobster Tuesday’s special. This is a special evening one Tuesday a month at the pop up that celebrates British sea food. Welcome cocktails The menu The deal includes half a lobster with a side, a starter, a welcome drink…
LCW volunteer reunion!
I’ve remained in contact with a few of the people I met whilst volunteering at London Cocktail Week – always useful to know people in bars, to get in, for free drinks etc… And we decided to meet up for some drinks, which quickly turned into a cocktail crawl in East London! We started out…