Category: bars

Rocky Mountain High

It started out as a quiet night drinking some new fashioned Old Fashioneds in Aspen’s J-Bar … Check out on the road in October and we’ll tell you all about it.

Scots wha hae…

These pipers know how to live right. Dropped into the Piping Centre in Glasgow for a weed dram and some gnarly pibroch.

Recognise this?

When was the last time you saw one of these on a bar? They used to be all the rage. The water faucet on the bar at the Pot Still, Glasgow, Scotland.

In the wild – Glenlivet Founders Reserve

August’s malt of the month – The Glenlivet Founders Reserve – photographed in the wild at the Scotia Bar, Glasgow. What a great price for a good dram!What are you watiing for?? Amazon.co.uk Widgets

When the party’s over …

When the party’s over and it’s time to go.Downing the last glass of Sazerac Rye in Milroy’s, Soho. London’s first whisky bar, and still going strong 45 years later.

Taps aff – Finsbay, Milngavie, Scotland

‘Rainy days and Mondays always get me down’ sang the Carpenters, but I never fancied that, so I resolved long ago to make sure I met them head on and hands free. This can lead to some peculiar decisions, so this particular rainy Monday I wasn’t surprised when I found myself confronting the voluminous orange […]

Keeping up with the Joneses

While doing some work with Public, mentoring GovTech start-ups for the GovStart programme – a great initiative from Daniel and Alex with a great team behind them – I discovered the joys of the Jones Family Kitchen in Victoria. (Though I’m sure they’d say the wonderfully renovated Eccleston yards are really part of Belgravia.) Here […]

Cutty Sark

Whisky of the week – Cutty Sark. A large Cutty Sark  by the Cutty Sark on a sunny summer’s evening at the Trafalgar Tavern, an inn that has stood guard by the old Naval College in Greenwich, London for 180 years. What could be finer? Cutty Sark is a range of blended Scotch Whisky from […]

In good company…

August’s malt of the month – The Glenlivet Founders Reserve – photographed in good company at the Pot Still in Glasgow.

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