“An alternative night cap” for St Patrick’s Day, ‘The After Dinner Mint’ features Irish Artisan Dingle Original Gin; distilled with botanicals such as rowan berry from the mountain ash trees, fuchsia, bog myrtle, hawthorn and heather. The London dry style gin is macerated for 24 hours then cut using the...
The second solo restaurant from ex-Gaucho Managing Director, Martin Williams, M Victoria Street will host a pop-up dining experience this month in support of Not For Sale – a global organisation that works to end human trafficking. Taking place from 19th-24th and 26th-29th March, the temporary restaurant inside M RAW...
Launched in 2003, Innis & Gunn has since become one of the UK’s most successful international craft beer businesses. Operating from a site in Perth, Scotland, Master Brewer Dougal Gunn Sharp and his team develop and barrel-age an assortment of beers sourced to over 28 countries. Alongside Innis & Gunn’s core range, the brewery...
As if an excuse for indulgence was ever necessary; St Patrick’s Day falls on a Saturday (17th March) this year. Alongside ‘official’ London celebrations taking place between 16th-18th March – notably including a huge parade – many of the city’s bars and restaurants will celebrate Ireland’s Patron Saint in their...
Though New World wines are undoubtedly punching with the best in 2018, I’ve always been enamoured with Old World reds – particularly Italian. Of course, South America produces some outstanding bottles (Chilean Carmènère, Argentinian Malbec), some English sparkling wines have begun to seriously compete French Champagne and New Zealand is...
Determined to prove that bar-quality drinks can be served at any event, Sam Paget Steavenson (better known as The Rum Runner) creates bespoke cocktails for some of the country’s leading events, bars and restaurants. Having worked with the likes of Ralph Lauren and the Design Museum with British Vogue, The...
The historic heart of Glasgow’s only Microbrewery, Drygate Brewing Co. has been operating since 2014. With a state of the art bespoke 24 Hectolitre Brewhouse and a 250 litre Studio Brewery, Drygate was set up by a team with shared passion for great beer. On site, the brewery also has...
Victoria has never been a synonymous with great food. Home to Mango Tree and more West Cornwall Pasty Co. huts than anyone could ever need, the area has long served as a beacon of terminal disappointment rather than a dining destination. Once upon a time, not too long ago, a...
“Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his 1922 novel, The Beautiful and Damned. On modern life, Ernest Hemingway also claimed: “Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.” I could go on quoting famous authors...