Cocktail Bar Review: The House Bar

I am in Cocktail Heaven. So far the drinks at House Bar have been good. Really good. But the ‘bar’ has just been raised – I’ve been served the most beautiful gin martini and am utterly, utterly charmed. I’ve had concoctions in 5* hotels in New York that aren’t this delightful.

Cocktail Bar Review: Raoul`s Bar, Oxford

Upon entering Raoul’s it’s obvious this is a bar serious about their cocktail making. On the wall hang certificates about the various awards they’ve won, and the back-bar offers a shimmering multi-coloured plethora of spirits. Their ingredients are a cause for interest – various exotic fruits (they claim to use more fresh fruit than any other bar […]

Submit your own Cocktail Entrant – “Moment of Truth”

Cocktail Name Moment of Truth By: Pekka Välitalo Cocktail Ingredients: 40ml  – Galliano L’Autentico 15ml –  Angostura Bitters 30ml – Lime Juice 10ml –  Agave Nectar 2 Dashes of Absinthe Egg white Instructions: Add all ingredients into the shaker and shake hard about 10 to 15 seconds. Double strain in to chilled coupette glass and garnish with […]

Cocktail Bar Review: American Bar at the Savoy, London

Few bars can claim an historical pedigree as rich as that of the American Bar. First headed up from its opening back in 1893 by Frank Wells, this is a bar as famous for its head bartenders as it is its location and drinks. Ada Coleman took the reigns next, to be succeeded by the […]

Auchentoshan Presents “The Taste Experiments”

If only it weren’t illegal to give kids booze, for the series of masterclasses coming up to explore the concept of taste through scientific experiments from Auchentoshan look set to make being a boffin cool again.Traditional whisky tastings, with their elaborate tasting notes unintelligible to all apart from the most hardened of spirit geeks are […]

Craft Beer Cocktails

Recently I’ve been looking into the world of craft beers and craft beer cocktails, with more and more people asking the right sort of questions over the bar, I’ve been taken a back slightly! Here are the days of the educated beer drinker…(well a few more than normal) so lets give them something to wet […]