by mark | May 6, 2016 | News
Fun day filming at the Musée de l’Absinthe in Auvers-sur-Oise with La Fée Parisienne, Marie-Claude Delahaye and Emmanuel Maubert of French TV Channel, France3. The programme will be shown on 5th June at 11.25 on France 3 Normandie, France 3 Val-de-Loire, France...
by mark | Mar 24, 2016 | News
This Easter Sunday falls on the 93rd anniversary of Absinthe’s ban in Germany. Of course the ban was lifted some time ago, in 1991, when Germany adopted the EU rules on thujone in spirits – but it’s worth remembering that it has not always been so...
by mark | Mar 18, 2016 | Cocktails, News
The 50 days of Albert Adria’s residency at the Hotel Café Royal will come to an end in two weeks. Tickets sold out fast, but you can still book yourself in to experience the incredible cocktails created by the acclaimed chef. Albert Adria’s...
by mark | Mar 4, 2016 | Cocktails, News
Written by George Rowley It is with sadness and regret to hear of the passing of Dick Bradsell, an icon of modern cocktail culture and the London scene. I first met Dick in the nineties, when I imported craft beer and Becherovka from the Czech Republic: I called him...
by mark | Feb 26, 2016 | News
Who spotted Mr Venus (from Our Mutual Friend – played by Omid Djalili) sitting with a glass of absinthe in the finale of the BBC’s Dickensian series? We were pleased to see what looks like a well prepared measure of traditional absinthe, in a classic absinthe glass,...
