Author Archive for Ellie Broughton
Staff Writer Ellie Broughton grew up drinking at Oxford’s award-winning cocktail bar at Raoul’s, the Duke of Cambridge and the Sound Café (RIP) and has never lost her taste for an expensive margarita. A feature writer by day, she has previously written city bar guides for the US, UK and Ireland and during her MA in journalism started her own blog about East End cocktail bars (motherbrown.wordpress.com). Ellie will be writing a weekly blog post on news, events, and everything in between; you can follow her own twitter @___ellie.
London Cocktail Society Christmas Party
Last week the London Cocktail Society Christmas party marked the end of a high-flying first year with a party at Callooh Callay.
Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Most bartenders don’t need to be educated about absinthe – but there’s no doubt that their customers do.
The Nightjar: new Old Street speakeasy
I have no doubt that the bar will be a magnetic jazz and cabaret venue when it launches, but what kncked my socks off was the cocktail menu.
A tale of two tastings
Chester Brown, brand ambassador for Mount Gay, was named the world’s best ambassador for the spirit; El Dorado’s Stefanie Holt the best in the UK, but the differences between the two stuck out like cocktail umbrellas in a Old Fashioned.
