Luxuriate: The Culloden Estate
The liberal application of stained glass and gothic windows, as well as the grand luxury of the Lough Bar (once the chapel), will leave you feeling regal and bordering on saintly for the duration of your stay.
Luxuriate: Black Rock Blending Room
Making my own salty sea breeze of a whisky – with a touch of peat smoke, chocolate malt and sherry-soaked machair – at Black Rock.
Luxuriate: K Bar, Kensington
You have to judge your audience before you start discussing terroir. Pick the wrong time or place and you could end up with a reputation for pomposity, verbiage and downright pretension. In the right circumstances though, it’s the only word that works.
Luxuriate: Opium, Chinatown
The top online search result for “Opium London” may lead you to a jade green door on Gerrard Street, but your initial impression may not suggest a chic 1920s inspired cocktail lounge.
DesignMyNight: Angel’s Share, Edinburgh
Formerly known as The Hudson, Angels Share is the hotel that’s bringing modern Scottish food and the freshest local ingredients to Edinburgh’s West End.
Bar Tab: Scarfes Bar, Holborn, London
On a cold December night, there is plenty to be said in favour of the warm glow of the refined Scarfes Bar at London’s luxury Rosewood Hotel
Cocktail Cherries
Let us show you how to make our delicious amaretto cocktail cherries at home
Luxuriate: Nine Lives, Bermondsey
Nine Lives in Bermondsey may be the closest you’ll get to drinking on Ian Fleming’s Caribbean estate without leaving central London.
Luxuriate: Kanishka, Mayfair
The ‘seven sisters’ of northeast India find representation in Atul Kochhar’s latest Mayfair restaurant.
Hoxton Hot Toddy
This recipe comes from the rooftop garden of the Queen of Hoxton pub in East London. Every winter this rooftop retreat is converted into a cosy party spot with a different theme from the ‘SKYEHALLA’ of 2017 to the Parisian boudoir-inspired wigwam of 2018. Whatever the theme, this simple hot toddy recipe is a winner. Hoxton Hot Toddy (per drink) 35ml blended Scotch whisky 5ml ginger liqueur (we use King’s…