Bar Tram & Bar Trench: PRE WARM UP FOR LONDON COCKTAIL WEEK 2012

2012/07/02

PRE WARM UP FOR LONDON COCKTAIL WEEK 2012

Just to get a Pre-Warm-up for the 2012 London Cocktail week in October we decide to make a brief visit in some of the cocktail bars in London . First stop , Savoy Hotel .

Probably most of the good bars around the world has at least one Savoy cocktail book at the back bar as a recipe reference . As pleople say..."Behind every great bartender (literally) is a roughed-up, stained copy of The Savoy Cocktail Book..." .

We were ready for the classics cocktails . Sazerac , Martinez , RobRoy , Hanky-Panky , BloodyMary , all surround by the jazz music played by the pianist . The last one , Corpese Reviver 2 , morning Glory & Gimlet , we had a chance to have at the Bar , really well excuted by Erick Lorincs .

Next stop , ECC ( Experimental Cocktail Club ) , located in ChinaTown , quite hard to find since it has no sign , just an old little door .

Nice selections of cocktails , good atmosphere with a speakeasy nuance . Cachaca Aged and Mezcal base cocktails are quite tasty .

To start the next night , Callooh Callay . A nice bar with some secrets on it . They have another bar on the second floor . How to come in....that's part of the secret too.

80's style cassete tape menu . 23 top-hits cocktails on the list NOW .

If you want to have a Cow or Chicken : Tramshed is the place , exately , they have only steak or chicken for main dish .

Tramshed building used to be an old electricity generating station for trams . The first thing you see whem you come in is a kind of huge aquarium with a real size Cow & a Chicken in it . And a huge paiting of a cartoon Cow & Chichen on the wall . Just by looking at you can have a guess who made it : the English artist Damien Hirst


Tramshed Menu


Smokin'beets cocktail


Tramshed Wall Paper


Zombie Cocktail served in a picther

A brief visit at Mr Simon Difford office . Surprising how big it is the alcohool arquive .

One of our favorite bar in London . Bar Purl harks back to a golden age of cocktails with a bit of the atmosphere of the 1920's american speakeasy bars . Each cocktail in Purl gives you an experience in flavor and visually .

Last stop , the oldest hotel in London , Langham Hotel . The Artisan Bar

The cocktails were made by the magical hands of Simone Caporale . It's not always that we have a chance to have cocktails made by world top bartenders . it was time to enjoy .