Where to Drink in London
The New York Times runs a nice long piece on where to drink in London. (Print and save it before they make you pay!) There's not a whole lot of new information there as to why it's better than New York (or SF)- bartenders tend to be career bartenders rather than people passing through the profession so there is more consistency in the quality of drinks. The drinks themselves are what you might find in better bars everywhere, with fresh ingredients and bartenders trying to outdo each other by incorporating obscure liqueurs into their cocktails.
There is, however, a nice list of bars in which to drink, that includes more than the ones I've always heard about: Trailer Happiness, Milk and Honey, Lonsdale.
I wonder, though, if the drinks are better overall, or just more consistently good. How good can a cocktail get? Have I tasted perfection already, or is there further to go? I guess I'll have to wait for someone to fly me to London to investigate in person.
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posted by camper at 2/08/2007 03:55:00 PM
2 Comments:
A list of hotel and style bars - you may as well be in New York or Paris, as you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference.
There's a lot that makes London different to SF or NY, but it's not those bars.
When it comes to foo-foo drinks though, don't you think that's the same in SF or NY? That most places that serve expensive, labor intensive, quality cocktails are generally the hotel and style bars?
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