To celebrate my parents 40th wedding anniversary they took the whole family to Malta for a week in May. We were lucky to stay at the Phoenicia hotel, just outside the Valletta city walls (literally overlooking them!). I’m writing a few posts about our stay, this one is all about the food, but it isn’t…
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Bobby’s Gin tasting
Another month means another ‘gin of the month’ at The Oliver Conquest and June’s is Bobby’s. So naturally I dragged some friends and colleagues along to the tasting! We met the lovely Sebastian, here popping up behind a wall of Bobby’s Gin bottles! He explained the origins of his gin, a long time family recipe,…
World Gin Day 2015 – where to celebrate!
Wondering where to celebrate World Gin Day tomorrow Saturday 13 June 2015? Here’s a brief list of suggestions! London Junipalooza The gin festival run by the Gin Foundry (this is where you will find me!), unfortunately it’s fully booked out now, but look out for future events The Oliver Conquest On Leman Street by Aldgate East….
Girls Dinner @ Hakkasan
Hakkasan – super shiny My fare ladies decided to continue our girls dinners with an early dinner at Hakkasan mid week. We found a £35 Taste of Hakkasan menu, which includes 3 courses and a cocktail – not a bad offer! A sample of the cocktails we tried The restaurant interior When arriving at the original…
House of Bols
I was very excited to be in the home of genever whilst in Amsterdam. Genever is the precursor to gin so very important in Gin’s history, as we learnt the other week at the Martin Miller’s gin tasting. After our culture hit at the Rijskmuseum I managed to drag Tiva to the House of Bols…
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…
The top 3 travel destinations on my bucket list!
One thing every traveller finds is that the more you travel, the more you want to travel! Comparisons of experiences over a beer in the hostel bar, lead to an ever growing list of places to visit, even if you are up to 52 countries visited like me! (I was lucky enough to travel for…
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…
Clean eating challenge
As those of you that follow me on Twitter & Instagram will know, I’ve been doing the Buzzfeed Food Clean Eating Challenge for the last two weeks. After a hectic few months at work – working late, with an hour commute and an injury stopping me exercising – I found myself putting on weight 🙁 Now that my…
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…