YetAnotherGin

The whispers are true. A few months back we heard of a new bar opening in Birmingham, that had a good team behind it from other venues.

That bar is Bodega, based on Bennetts Hill and opening on the 14th September. It’s from the people behind the Island Bar, Jekyll and Hyde and the Victoria. It’s aiming to be a South American Bar and Cantina, but thats about all we know so far.

Calling those cocktail loving fashionistas. You know about Purl, and you know that Fashion’s Night Out is coming up on September 8th. You do know that right?
What you might not know, is that as part of the night DKNY Jeans are hosting a pop-up bar, with music from New Young Pony Club, Alan Pownall, and Rox.

We have a little penchant for cocktails, as well as fine food.
When you go to Hawksmoor you get the best of both. Great steaks, and great cocktails. It comes as no surprise that Hawksmoor was voted the best restaurant bar in the country.
Over time, due to their success as a great restaurant the bar has become more encroached and now there are only 8 stools to perch upon with your cocktail. So if you do pop by, try and grab a seat and …

Ever opened your spirits cabinet only to find a lack of what you wanted? Or is everyone else just rather organised? My home bar has had some very good times. It seems, too good of a time. It got rather abused, and never replenished.
There was the time that I went to make my self a G&T and I had no tonic. The Negroni, with no Campari/Aperol. The only suitable phrase to describe the state it was in, would be ‘utter shambles’.
At one point, I almost ran …

Gin, a little passion of mine. Tonic, I flirt with now and again. There comes some occassions when I just don’t want a ’strong/hard’ cocktail, and I just need something to unwind with. A glass of wine might suffice, but sometimes a spirit balance is needed.
The issue is, in my day to day job it is apparently unacceptable to drink cocktails at my desk. Therefore when I left work the other evening and had to get the train from London back to London, I couldn’t whip …

Competitions. The dread of those who aren’t conninving and deceitful, well at least when it comes to school sports day and you tripping up your competitor in the moments before that 100m sprint.
Luckily, there are some competitions which interest me a little bit more than the 100m, even if it is extremely likely that Usain Bolt will be creating a new world record. That thing, is cocktail competitions.
Lately it has seemed that some competitions that work on a ‘regional’ basis (east/west london), south west, north etc. managed to …

A pop-up art project café on the top of the Peckham Multiplex – ten floors up in a disused car park – serving up lashings of bitter orange Campari cocktails on wooden benches underneath a tarpaulin looking out across the whole of London. As concepts go, it’s difficult to top, even in this saturated city.