... there are two types of cocktails bars in London, American and English style.American style cocktail bars: They are either in posh hotels and staffed with ponsies who believe that the costumer is there for them (and not vice versa) and they take pride in knowing 13 different shaking techniques. OR. They're speed bars a la TGI Friday's, where most drinks are spiced up with sweet-and-sour mix and the frozen strawberry daiquiris sell like naked girls in Soho.
English style cocktail bars: The bartenders who roam this oak are constantly trying to outgeek eachother by coming up with the most outrageous combination of ingredients in their drinks - wierdest drink always wins, and the one who has gone through the most effort (making a glass out of chocolate, home grown spices, steeping herbs in the most unobtainable liquid you can imagine - the list goes on) wins the competition. They take ten minutes to make one of their cocktails and think it's ok.
I love them both. Like a mother loves her child, a lover loves another and like a pregnant woman loves wierd food - like a bartender loves Jägermeister.
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