#boaredintheusa Cocktails in London
May 25, 2018
Third time’s a charm. This year’s cocktail extravaganza was hashtagged (as always) with a tip of the hat to the Clash. (See #londonculling and #rockthecasbar entries.)
From our base at the Mondrian London, we headed out to the shard for lunch.
It's time #boaredintheusa departs @MondrianLDN for the shard @sfjacob pic.twitter.com/43allhdz3a
— noplasticshower (@noplasticshower) May 23, 2018
The food at Aquashard is remarkably good. Fuel up!
#boaredintheusa location 0: kir Royale @aquashard pic.twitter.com/nD1vJrc1lB
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After lunch, it was off to the Alchemist. Espresso was in the cards since it was early yet.
#boaredintheusa location 1: iced charcoal latte @TheAlchemistUK pic.twitter.com/G5JyVz5kFC
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Next we paid a visit to our friend Alessandro (and delivered greetings personally from Jacques Bezuidenhout) at Duke’s hotel bar. Simply put, Duke’s somehow makes the best martinis in the world. Better to only have one.
#boaredintheusa location 2: @dukesbarlondon vesper pic.twitter.com/fHehj4QIVs
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Plans called for a visit to the Ritz bar, but we ran into a shoe-ware issue (someone had on trainers that cost as much as a car). So fuck the Ritz. We will be back never.
No worries, the Connaught Bar manned by Micheal was incredibly great. We sat at the bar. Somehow the Connaught became our home away from home with two visits the next day during much fun was had.
#boaredintheusa location 3 @TheConnaught bee's knees pic.twitter.com/avnfbE1Da9
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We paid a visit to Gerry’s Wines and Spirits to amass a treasure trove of Amer Picon and some very old Cuban rum. Graham and insta-graham were a blast. Gin tasting occurred.
Then it was time for prophylactic ramen at Bone Daddies. Great ramen with a rock and roll vibe. Beer seemed like a good idea.
#boaredintheusa location 4 (kinda) prophylactic ramen @BoneDaddiesLDN pic.twitter.com/2mtIi8oqj8
— noplasticshower (@noplasticshower) May 23, 2018
Bar Swift was our next target. Without a reservation we shlepped downstairs. After a round, our waitress took pity on us and gave us a great round booth. Then we got into the George T Stagg 2016. Wise?? Of course it was wise.
#boaredintheusa location 5: @barswift red thing with chambourd…then trouble pic.twitter.com/gqgKvLUsfH
— noplasticshower (@noplasticshower) May 23, 2018
Next up was a visit to one of our all around favorites, the American Bar at the Savoy. Our barman on point at the establishment did what he could to find us some Catoctin Creek rye to use in the Red Lips Rye. He had 24 hours. Sadly, his attempt was unsuccessful, but he did put in a real effort.
We always seem to get stuck at the American Bar for 2 or 3 rounds, after which we head downstairs and transfer our tab to the Beaufort. Two of our party bowed out after the American Bar visit around 10:30.
#boaredintheusa location 6: @TheSavoyLondon American Bar "red lips rye" but a fail on @catoctincreek. 24 hours notice not sufficient. pic.twitter.com/MgRqcvuX5M
— noplasticshower (@noplasticshower) May 23, 2018
It was left for the remaining cocktail enthusiasts to pull all of the weight. Down to the Beaufort we went. Frankly we were not impressed with this visit. Though we love the bar and past visits have been fun (if not expensive as hell), there seem to be too many Russians around for comfort these days.
#boaredintheusa location 7: @TheSavoyLondon Beaufort bar. Silver bullet. And an almost OK neverending story pic.twitter.com/W8FoGFIxEN
— noplasticshower (@noplasticshower) May 23, 2018
Back home to the Dandelyan it was. We made it in time for fernet and a last call that seems to have involved two CR#2’s and six Liberals. These things happen!
Home pic.twitter.com/RYqlagqH9R
— noplasticshower (@noplasticshower) May 24, 2018
So, after all this we somehow ended up opening a bottle of champagne at 2am on the balcony. That was a bad idea.
You would figure that we had learned our lesson, but we had not. The next afternoon after some ramen (medicinal this time) at Monohon ramen we walked over to the Zetter Townhouse for some hair of the dog.
Dog hair pic.twitter.com/UobXDNas69
— noplasticshower (@noplasticshower) May 24, 2018
Which naturally led us back to the Connaught Bar to see Michael again before our fancy night out.
We leave you with a recipe for a Coburg Collins
50 ml London dry gin (no 3)
20 ml lemon
15 ml simple syrup
10 ml fino sherry
2 dashes celery bitters
top up with soda water over big ice.
Followed by an adjusted Coburg Collins (fino Sherry and celery bitters) pic.twitter.com/9EAgSUJTKv
— noplasticshower (@noplasticshower) May 24, 2018
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