London Cocktail Week

London cocktail week was a great opportunity to try out bars and cocktails that you hadn’t yet got around to checking out or test driving and it also provided a perfect excuse (if you needed one) to get out and about a few nights in a row to squeeze in as many £4 discounted drinks as you could in one week!

Being a hopeless decision maker I loved how the cocktail tours took that out of my hands. The bars and the drink choice all lined up for me! Just follow the trail, stroll into a bar, no faffing around with menus waiting for everyone to decide what they want, ‘2 of the London cocktail week cocktails please’ and hey presto! It also made me try things I wouldn’t usually give a go. True, this doesn’t always work out, but for the most part it was a journey of discovery without too many unpleasant surprises!

Highlights (naming but a few) were Opium, Gerrard Street, a snug little bar located in the heart of China Town; Venn Street Records, Clapham, cocktails and live music on a side road off the main drag of Clapham High Street; and what an opulent treat it was to sip an £8 Belvedere cocktail at the China Tang bar in the Dorchester Hotel.

A thoroughly enjoyable experience and I can’t wait until next year’s event!

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