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First evening in Athens first cocktail bar! I joined my sister and her boyfriend yesterday in Athens for a few days of holidays. After a nice Greek coffee down the street in the late afternoon it was nearly time to go for dinner. As none of us felt like doing late we decided on enjoying a pre-dinner drink before going to the restaurant. I came prepared with a list of cocktail bars I had researched beforehand. As I’m the only cocktail aficionado I got to choose which bar to try. After having endured Geneva’s hot and cold weather for the
London is home to many gin distilleries but only one is located in the City: the well-named City of London Distillery (COLD for short). Opened in December 2012 the distillery has a range of 5 different gins: London Dry, Old Tom, Sloe Gin, as well as the special Christopher Wren Gin and Square Mile Gin. Since October 2015, they’re all bottled into bottles shaped after the dome of the City’s landmark: St Paul’s Cathedral. (Since I visited the distillery a few months before, the bottles you can see on my pictures are in the old shape). The general production reaches
Art and alcohol is a well-known association. The consumption of spirits often provides the inspiration for song lyrics or looses painters’ fingers on the canvas. It is also often depicted or sung about. The Clarendon Cocktail Cellar, housed within the Artist Residence boutique hotel in residential Pimlico, takes a twist on classic cocktails with house-made tinctures and infused spirits and new names inspired by famous works of art. The menu is an assortment of coasters with the cocktail’s name and composition on one side and a reproduction of the corresponding painting on the other side. “A Sunday Afternoon on the
Looking for a swanky bar with an intimate setting to take out your date? Fancy a last drink after an evening at the theater or at the English National Opera to cap off the night? St Martin’s Lane Hotel on said St Martin’s Lane houses a smart cocktail bar, aptly named Blind Spot. In true speakeasy manner, the bar is well and truly hidden from view. On entering the hotel you’ll be tempted to follow the lights and the music towards the hotel’s salon on your right or the restaurant on your left, while the door to Blind Spot is
Ever had that thing in the morning when you wake up, know you have to get up but your feet somehow shout “don’t you dare”? Well, that’s me this morning, right this instant. My feet were victims of physical abuse these last two days and I can positively (huh really?) say: they hate me! After years of playing footsie with each other or with whatever mess is located beneath my office desk, they’ve suddenly been asked to dance the complicated back and forth and sideways dance of the bartender. Thanks to my sister’s connections I had the luck to get
– Hey! What should we do tonight? – Let’s go for a pastrami sandwich! Sorry, say what? Pastrami? That doesn’t sound really exciting for a Saturday night, does it ? Well, it depends. If you were in Barcelona and someone suggested this rather curious idea for a night out, I’d say: SAY YES! In the festive El Born district, a bar has recently opened, hidden behind the back wall of a pastrami sandwich bar. Three hints give out its existence (well, besides the address on its Facebook page and shared at the end of this post): the signage above the
