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Good Stuff #54 | St Patrick’s Day Edition
Ready for St Patrick’s Day? Here’s my latest list of good stuff, in this case all in celebration of Irish drink with a sampling of quality beverages I had the pleasure of trying at a recentSpirit of Sharing tasting event hosted by Irish Ambassador Daniel Mulhall and Bord Bia, the Irish Food Board, at the Irish Embassy in Belgravia. Continue reading
Bombay Masterclass: Profiling the Botanicals
Maddie Salters attends a gin masterclass at The Jam Tree in Clapham. If your prohibition-era proclivities have ever led you to yearn for a night in a private bar cleverly disguised by a bookshelf, you need look no further than … Continue reading
Win a Bottle of Whitley Neill Small Batch London Dry Gin
Whitley Neill is a small batch London dry gin. Inspired by Africa, it is comprised of nine different botanicals including the South African baobab and cape gooseberry. Fancy a taste … for free? I’ve got one bottle of this distinctive and award-winning premium spirit to give away. Continue reading
Perfect Pies + Great Gins at Punch Tavern, Fleet Street
Not my first (or last) time to dine at Punch, I recently paid a visit to see if this 118 year old Fleet Street mainstay lived up to the 2014 Great Taste awards it had won for its pies. I can vouch for the cauliflower cheese pie (£11) and the steak and Doom Bar Ale pie (£13) – both served with ample and satisfying mash, veg and gravy. Puds are ace here too – love the sticky toffee pudding (£4.50).
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New Distillery Tours in Louisiana (OneTravel)
Thirsty for a taste of something local in Louisiana? Two new distilleries in south Louisiana have recently started to offer tours of their facilities along with onsite tastings of their products made with Louisiana ingredients, and a third distillery is … Continue reading
Win a Big Bag o’ Booze!
Ya get a lot of freebies in my profession (if actually I can call what I do for a living a profession). There always seems to be plenty of booze to go around especially! So much so, I’m not quite sure what to do with it. No, I’m no teetotaller and can assure you I’m doing my damnedest to drink my way through all of it. I’ve just got way more than I can get to at the moment. And this is where you come in. Want to help a blogger out and take some of this alcohol off my hands? Keep reading to find out how you can win my Big Bag o’ Booze. Continue reading
London Daily Photo: World’s Largest Gin & Tonic Tasting
Last night Fever-Tree hosted Gin & Tonic Fever. Billed at the “world’s largest G&T tasting”, the event was held at Chelsea Physic Garden and featured well over 100 different gins from around the world to sample along with all of Fever-Trees tonic waters and mixers. Continue reading
Hayman’s Gin and England’s Longest Serving Gin Distilling Family
Sadly, I had to scoot out on the way too early side of a Hayman’s Gin masterclass with fifth generation distiller, James Hayman, a couple of Fridays ago. Luckily, I was able to stay long enough to learn a bit … Continue reading
British Designers Secret Garden Installation at Harvey Nichols Fifth Floor Terrace
Tonight was a perfect evening to be outside with a view of Hyde Park (well a sliver of it anyway) having cocktails and canapes. And that’s how I spent it, taking in a bit of al fresco glamour in Knightsbridge … Continue reading
The Mad Men of Jazz and a Three Martini Lunch at A Fluid State (Londonist)
The Mad Men of Jazz and a Three Martini Lunch at A Fluid State Londonist, November 25, 2010 at 16:30 PM Photo/Tiberiu Arsene Improv jazz, whisky pairings, foodie finds from New York street vendors and a Plymouth gin cocktail bar: it’s going … Continue reading
Competition Winners! Free Taste of London Tickets and Cocktails from Gin Mare (Londonist)
Competition Winners! Free Taste of London Tickets and Cocktails from Gin Mare Londonist, June 15, 2010 9:18 PM And the incredibly deserving and rather witty winners are … READ THE COMPLETE POST TO FIND OUT WHO WON: Competition Winners! Free … Continue reading
Competition Reminder: Free Taste of London Tickets and Cocktails from Gin Mare (Londonist)
Competition Reminder: Free Taste of London Tickets and Cocktails from Gin Mare Londonist, June 14, 2010 10:00 AM Don’t forget! Gin Mare – a brand new super premium gin distilled with Mediterranean botanicals – is offering one lucky Londonist reader a free … Continue reading
Londonist Competition: Free Taste of London Tickets and Cocktails from Gin Mare
Competition: Free Taste of London Tickets and Cocktails from Gin Mare Londonist, June 10, 2010 3:00 PM Gin Mare – a brand new super premium gin distilled with Mediterranean botanicals – will soon be available for purchase in the UK. … Continue reading
Friday with Gordon’s Gin and Trixie Malicious
Gordon’s Gin and the Telegraph reckon that Friday is an exceptionally good day to kick back and have a drink. Burlesque dancer and model, Trixie Malicious, agrees.
Summer Cocktails and Canapés Overlooking Hyde Park (Londonist)
Summer Cocktails and Canapés Overlooking Hyde Park Londonist, August 5, 2009 3:25 PM Tanqueray Tables returns to London with “intimate cocktail evenings” from Monday 10 to Friday 14 August. Londonist checked this cocktails and canapés event last summer and had … Continue reading
Londonist Gets Spanked and Flogged – and (ooh) Kinda Likes it!
Londonist Gets Spanked and Flogged – and (ooh) Kinda Likes it! Londonist, June 19, 2009 9:59 AM Bulldog Gin invited Londonist to tag along to their cocktail party last night at the Brompton Cross location of erotic boutique Coco de … Continue reading