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…
Gin
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…
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:…
The Sacred drink: Gin
After a long break, my first gin of the year at The Oliver Conquest was only on the 3rd March! I know over 2 months without a visit – I think that’s a record, at least for when I’ve actually been in the country. The first visit of the year coincided (not by accident) with…
Gin club outing : Gin Journey
Oh ok then!!  I’ve been working all hours on the day job recently and the time to actually report back on our Gin Club outing on the Gin Journey has been woefully short.  But finally here it is! Only 3 months late…. :s  So the Gin journey started at Merchant House –…
Urban Villas opening
I’ve recently been working out in Brentford at a client’s, so when Urban Villas sent an invite to their launch party ‘sleep over’ it was the perfect fit. I dragged Laura out to Brentford to enjoy the hospitality and check out the hotel. On arrival there was free prosecco whilst we waited for our rooms,…
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…
Gin & Tonic cake
Last year I tasted gin and tonic cake for the first time at The Oliver Conquest, along with some scrumptious fruity gin truffles, but I took a long time to getting around to baking it myself! My first attempt was for the work bake-off before Christmas and all was going smoothly before I managed to…
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…
Half Hitch Gin Tasting
New Year New Gin! The Half Hitch Gin tasting at The Oliver Conquest actually happened before Christmas, but its been so busy so I didn’t get a chance to post about it before now… Now I’m super excited about Half Hitch as it combines two of my passions – gin and Camden! Its made by…