Cocktails
London’s new Ginstitute: Quench your thirst for knowledge
Holding class in a pub is a guaranteed means of getting students to rock up – especially when the subject is gin, Amy Laughinghouse discovers.
By Amy Laughinghouse, published on 21 December 2011
Masters of Maraschino: The quest for the perfect Luxardo Maraschino cocktail
Dublo’s been drinking again. Heavily.
By Dublo, published on 21 December 2011
Does French Harry know how to make a Martini?
Week seven in Paris, it was time to check out the Martini situation in this city. Where to start? Harry’s New York Bar of course. A Paris institution, Harry’s was founded in 1911. This is apparently the world’s original Harry’s Bar, ‘birthplace of the Bloody Mary and other legendary cocktails’. So, one Friday night after [...]
By Patito, published on 20 October 2010
French cocktail chic: A fabulous night at the Curio Parlor
Two weeks in Paris and one group of bars had been recommended to us more than anywhere else: Curio in the 5th, Prescription in the 6th and the Experimental Cocktail Club in the 2nd. With a weakness for cocktails, we simply had to try them out. As it turned out, one of our colleagues has [...]
By Patito, published on 22 September 2010
A Zuma-tastic farewell to London
This is it. Not in the Michael Jackson sense. But our farewell to London. Three years, eleven months and eight days after arriving in the Big Smoke, we find ourselves once again, passport in hand at the Eurostar terminal. In the intervening years, the terminal has of course moved from Waterloo to St Pancras. Other [...]
By Patito, published on 25 August 2010
Bond’s drink: Martini at Dukes
We thought we knew all about Martinis. As a founding member of the Dry Martini Club (DMC to its friends) we have spent the last four years researching, making, re-making and tasting Martinis. What more could we learn? As it turns out, quite a lot. And we’re going to share it all with you. Right [...]
By Patito, published on 4 August 2010
Fabulous and flirty at Dean Street Townhouse
When you have a hot date in London town, you need to pick somewhere special. And in a city where you’re spoilt for choice, that could be any number of places. But for Mr Fling’s visit to London one venue stood out: the oh-so-cool Dean Street Townhouse in the heart of Soho. Owned by the [...]
By Patito, published on 2 June 2010
Introducing the Lovestruck cheat
When we signed up to lovestruck.com we committed to go on six dates to give this thing a proper chance. Date number four was due to be last week, with a certain Simon75. A Derbyshire lad, he has been in London for ten years. We emailed for a month or so and just as we [...]
By Patito, published on 19 May 2010
A Lovestruck date with all the taboos at the National Portrait Gallery
They say there are three topics you should avoid in polite company: religion, politics and money. On our third Lovestruck date which lasted barely two hours, we tackled them all. Ouch. It was a sunny Saturday afternoon in London. Sri Lankan Ali, a software engineer with an interest in photography was charming on email and [...]
By Patito, published on 12 May 2010
Friends reunited at Belgo Centraal
A lawyer, a lobbyist, a scientist, a banker and an IT guy met up on a Friday night. Well, that’s what we are now. Back in 1994 we were class mates and frolicking teenagers. We hadn’t seen each other in over ten years but through the wonders of Facebook we were in touch again and [...]
By Patito, published on 5 May 2010
