It seems the latest craze for cocktails is to do away with sweet ones and instead to embrace bitter flavours. This was definitely seen at the London Cocktail Week French Themed close party at Bourne & Hollingsworth Buildings. All of these classic French aperitifs have a bitter edge – and then there was the absinthe…….
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Cocktail crawls with #LCW14
Forget Friday – every night is the cocktail night this week! Earlham street decorated for LCW! This week, 6-12 October 2014, is London Cocktail Week and seeing as I don’t have a job yet I volunteered to help them out from the goodness of my heart – oh and in exchange for a free wrist…
London Speakeasies
So I’m sure that plenty of people know about speakeasies – hidden bars that you need a password to get into. These originated during the days of prohibition in the States when alcohol was outlawed and so bars needed to be sneaky about serving people and hide from the law. Nowadays the main reason for…
My favourite gin bar!
It was World Gin Day last Saturday 14th June, so my friend Kimmy and I decided to celebrate with a warm up event at the Oliver Conquest. The Oliver Conquest is pretty much a gin bar – I think their stock of +180 different gins qualifies them for this moniker – they also serve Meantime…