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Competition: 3 Bottles of Ish Limão – Brazilian Edition – Up for Grabs!

With the Brazilian World Cup just around the corner, we’ve discovered the perfect gin to shake up your gin cocktails or Gin & Tonics – Ish Limão (Brazilian Edition). Ish Limão is the latest edition to the exquisite portfolio from the The … Continue →

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Cocktail Bar Review: Guanabara, London

The word that springs to mind when describing Guanabara is Intense. This Brazilian themed establishment, located near Holborn tube, is touted as a bar, restaurant and night club, that ‘brings to life some of the amazing colours and magic of Brazil‘. So I … Continue →

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Cocktail Bar Review: Barrio Central, London

Located on Poland Street in the midst of Soho, Barrio Central is already surrounded by a riot of colour, eccentricity, and a hint of tongue-in-cheek fun. This attitude continues as you pass through the door into the bright, candy coloured interior. A … Continue →

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Cocktail Bar Review: Après, London

Oxford St is a peculiar place; so many people and yet so few reasons for them to be there. Sure, there is a Selfridge’s, but I’ve not come across much else worth the trek from the far more pleasant Regent … Continue →

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Win a bottle of Beefeater Gin & Premium Cocktail Kit

To celebrate the launch of Beefeaters Spring/Summer Cocktail collection we have a bottle of Beefeater Gin and a Premium Cocktail Kit for one lucky reader. See end of post for competition details. Straight off the bar-top, Beefeater Gin this week unveils … Continue →

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Cocktail Bar Review: Gillray`s, London

Fancy hotel bars are two a penny in London, and each must work to stand out from the crowd. Some go all art deco on us, others invoke a sense of American glamour, or even high end tropical tiki. Gillray’s, hidden … Continue →

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Cocktail Bartender Interview – Adam Montgomerie

Adam Montgomerie is the Head Cocktail Bartender at Bar Kohl Edinburgh, which turns 20 this year and celebrated in November with a huge party that was the talk of the city. Throughout 2013, Adam and his dedicated team have been … Continue →

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Learn & Taste: Top Events at London Cocktail Week

I love London and I love cocktails so this week I couldn’t ask for more. London Cocktail Week takes place from the 7th to the 13th of October. When it was launched in 2010, London Cocktail Week was created as a … Continue →

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Opening Night Review: Ruskis, London

Ruski’s Tavern, the new soviet kitsch bar and club on Kensington High Street owned by the creators of Bodos Schloss, opened last week to wild applause. The queue for the launch stretched down the high street, with some guests reportedly … Continue →

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Submit your own Cocktail Entrant – London Bridge

Cocktail Name London Bridge By: Omer Gazit-Shalev Cocktail Ingredients 50ml – Tanqueray No10 20ml – St Germain 10ml – Monin Elderberry 20ml – Monin Pear Dash Fee Brothers Grapefruit Bitters Top with Tonic water Instructions Shaken and double strain into a … Continue →

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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 … Continue →

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Herbfest 2013 presents the English Garden Cocktail

Herbest is a brand new botanical experience for visitors to London’s Southbank and is essentially a temporary greenhouse packed with herbs selected with help from Britain’s leading herb expert, Jekka McVicar. Food and drink menus across the city will be … Continue →

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A Cocktail for Eurovision

When it comes to competitions unifying Europe, Eurovision is by far the most fabulous. Sure, football and rugby have their place, but we have a special place in our hearts for the glitzy, zany and downright fun of the global … Continue →

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Cocktail Bar Review: Nightjar, London

Sandwiched between two fast-food establishments, barely far enough from Old St tube for your eyes to adjust to the outside world, is this bar named after a nocturnal bird more commonly associated with open heathland than the urban jungle.

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Cocktail Bar Review: Galvin at Windows, London

They might often be cosy affairs, perfect for hunkering down on a cold winters night, but London’s penchant for subterranean cocktail bars does mean that you are left relying on the aesthetic appeal of your compatriots, or the skills of … Continue →

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Cocktail Bar Review: Volupté Lounge, London

In need of a refreshment? Well look no further then Voluptés Bon Bar! Volupté’s incredible Bon Bon is completely unique and one of a kind; smothered with pick and mix for purchase, candy trees that look oh so delicious doted on … Continue →

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Cocktail Bar Review: Evans and Peel Detective Agency, London

Earls Court is not somewhere known for its cocktail bars, and even less so for its cocktail bars that feel like walking onto a Hollywood set from the olden days. And then pops up Evans and Peel. Entrance to this … Continue →

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Cocktail Bar Review: Floridita, London

Ernest Hemingway was a wise man, he said stuff like, “always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut”. Generally wise men should be listened to and thus I am sure … Continue →

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Cocktail Bar Review: Happiness Forgets, London

It would be easy to make this bar sound like yet another *yawn* speakeasy styled establishment. It’s located in a basement, there is minimal signage to announce its presence, its all low-lit and intimate, and the bartenders are generally of … Continue →

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Cocktail Bar Review: Graphic Bar, London

Graphic is an ultra-trendy Soho bar located in Golden Square just two minutes from Piccadilly Circus, Carnaby Street and Regent Street. Keeping in line with the evident urban, modern vibe that you will feel the second you step into the … Continue →

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Cocktail Bar Review: Callooh Callay, London

Sometimes you just get a good feel about a place from the moment you walk in, and nowhere is this more true than at Callooh Callay. Its understated entrance on a side street in the painfully hip Shoreditch belies the … Continue →

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Bénédictine crowns London’s cocktail champion

Bénédictine Liqueur has crowned Andy Loudon, bartender at London’s 69 Colebrook Row, the winner of their London mixologist competition. Andy fought off stiff competition from five other skilled entrants, to win a once in a life -time paid trip to France in … Continue →

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Cocktail Bar Review: Rules, London

In a city alive with the buzz of the latest opening or pop-up, there is something reassuringly comforting about an establishment that has been open since 1798. That sure is a long time by anyone’s standards and so it is … Continue →

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Cocktail Bar Review: LAB Bar, London

In a city where new bars crop up faster than cress on wet tissue paper, there is something reassuringly familiar about a bar that has been around as long as Lab. This old timer has been around since before cocktails … Continue →

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