The American Bar in which famous London hotel introduced the Cocktail to the capital?
"Coleman and Ruth Burgess. They were replaced by the naturalised American Harry Craddock, who had worked the service bar for five years while the women worked the front bar. Craddock later wrote The Savoy Cocktail Book, which included Coleman's recipe for the Hanky Panky. In February 1926, five London newspapers published the story of Coley's retirement from bartending. In an interview with The London Daily Express, who called her ""England's most famous barmaid"" and The Queen of Cocktail Mixers"", Coleman estimated she had served one hundred thousand customers and poured one million drinks. After Coleman left the bar, some cocktail"
"Devil Wears Prada"", ""Hannah and her Sisters"", ""The First Wives' Club"", and ""Gossip Girl"". King Cole Bar The King Cole Bar is an upscale cocktail lounge in The St. Regis Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Many mixologists believe the Bloody Mary made its first U.S. appearance in the King Cole Bar. The drink was then called ""The Red Snapper,"" after originally being invented by Fernand Petiot at Harry's New York Bar in Paris, France. Others contend that the iconic drink, now one of the Official Cocktails of the International Bartenders Association, was indeed invented in the King Cole"
"King Cole Bar The King Cole Bar is an upscale cocktail lounge in The St. Regis Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Many mixologists believe the Bloody Mary made its first U.S. appearance in the King Cole Bar. The drink was then called ""The Red Snapper,"" after originally being invented by Fernand Petiot at Harry's New York Bar in Paris, France. Others contend that the iconic drink, now one of the Official Cocktails of the International Bartenders Association, was indeed invented in the King Cole Bar. Originally, the King Cole Bar was about fifty feet (15m) east of the"
"Capital Hotel Capital Hotel is a small 5-star hotel in London, England. It is located at 22–24 Basil Street, Knightsbridge, and is known to have been visited by The Queen. It was established by David Levin in April 1971. The Capital Hotel is a townhouse hotel with 49 individually designed rooms. It features the work of designers such as Nina Campbell and David Linley. The Capital is known for its classic English style, and has eight suites and a two floor penthouse. In 1974 the hotel's restaurant, The Capital Restaurant, was one of the first three hotel restaurants in London"
"to its large collection of memorabilia. Every wall and surface is covered with an intriguing collection of artefacts, knick-knacks and signed celebrity photographs donated by patrons and guests over the years. The American Bar also has a private cobbled courtyard for al fresco dining opportunities. During the 1930s most West End hotels in London renamed their bar ‘The American Bar’ in an attempt to attract the business of the increasing numbers of North American visitors. These intrepid travellers brought with them such exotic drinks such as Manhattans, Sidecars and Martinis, which the bar is famous for. Most hotels have renamed"
"Jumeirah Carlton Tower The Jumeirah Carlton Tower is a hotel in London, England. Owned and managed by the Emirati firm Jumeirah, it is located on Cadogan Place next to Sloane Street and close to Harrods, Harvey Nichols and central Knightsbridge. There are three restaurants and bars which include The Rib Room Bar & Restaurant, and Chinoiserie. The hotel opened on 5 January 1961 as The Carlton Tower, managed by Hotel Corporation of America. In 1970 that chain was renamed Sonesta Hotels, and the hotel was briefly renamed the Sonesta Tower Hotel. UK-Based Lex Hotels assumed management in 1971, and the"
"and that it does bear a striking resemblance to the gin punches served at London clubs like the Garrick in the first half of the 19th century. Confusion over the cocktail's origins continued as American writer Charles Montgomery Skinner noted in 1898 that the Tom Collins had made its way to the ""American Bars"" in England, France, and Germany, where the American invention stimulated curiosity in Europe and served as a reflection of American art. As time passed, interest in the Tom Collins diminished and its origins became lost. Early on during the 1920s Prohibition in the United States, the"
"customers away to a theater date or a ballgame after drinks or dining at the Stork. He changed the meaning of the hand signals frequently to avoid regular patrons' being able to read them. Guests dined on the finest wines and cuisine, and it was known for its Champagne and caviar. The club gained worldwide attention for its cocktails, made by chief barman Nathaniel ""Cookie"" Cook. Cook invented dozens of cocktails at the bar, including the signature ""Stork Club Cocktail"". Today the ornamental bar of the Stork Club is to be found in Jim Brady's Bar in Maiden Lane. The"
"Sachertorte. Others have achieved fame by association with dishes or cocktails created on their premises, such as the Hotel de Paris where the crêpe Suzette was invented or the Raffles Hotel in Singapore, where the Singapore Sling cocktail was devised. A number of hotels have entered the public consciousness through popular culture, such as the Ritz Hotel in London, through its association with Irving Berlin's song, 'Puttin' on the Ritz'. The Algonquin Hotel in New York City is famed as the meeting place of the literary group, the Algonquin Round Table, and Hotel Chelsea, also in New York City, has"
"Joe Gilmore Joe Gilmore (19 May 1922 – 18 December 2015) was one of the longest running Head Barmen at The Savoy Hotel's American Bar. He was born in Belfast and moved to London in 1938. Gilmore started as a trainee barman at The American Bar in 1940 and was appointed Head Barman in 1955, a position he held until he retired in 1976. Over his years as Head Barman, Gilmore invented numerous cocktails to mark special events and important guests, a longstanding tradition at the American Bar. Gilmore has invented cocktails in honor of a number of royalty, politicians"
"Richmond Design Group. Today The Dorchester has five restaurants: ""The Grill"", ""Alain Ducasse"", ""The Spatisserie"", ""The Promenade"", and ""China Tang"". Alain Ducasse's restaurant is one of the UK's four 3-Michelin-starred restaurants. Afternoon tea, a tradition which has taken place at the hotel since its opening in 1931, is served every day of the week at five in the afternoon in ""The Promenade"" and the ""Spatisserie"". Harry Craddock, a well-known barman in the 1930s, invented the ""Dorchester of London"" cocktail here at the Dorchester Bar. A well-lit plane tree stands at the edge of the hotel in the front garden, and"
"and cocktail bar in its northwest corner. The main entrance to this space was at the corner where the two diagonal walls of the hotel met at the corner of Connecticut Avenue and DeSales Street. In March 1948, the retail area was taken over by the hotel and expanded into a much larger bar and dining space named the Town and Country Lounge. Over the next four decades, the bar became a favorite of Washington politicians and power-brokers. ""The Sunday Times"" of London rated Town and Country as one of the ""star bars"" of the world (alongside the Polo Lounge"
"David Collins, opened. The hotel also has a swimming pool and Asian-inspired spa managed in conjunction with Aman Resorts. Other changes include a new Espelette Restaurant, with a covered terrace, and the Coburg Bar, managed by Andreas Cortes. The Connaught Bar is run by mixologist Agostino Perrone, which has received several international awards including World's Best Cocktail Bar at the coveted Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards in both 2012 and 2016, the only bar in the world to have won it twice. The Connaught (hotel) The Connaught in Mayfair, central London, is a five star hotel, located in Carlos"
"Alexandra Hotel, Knightsbridge The Alexandra Hotel was a hotel at what is now 25–27 Knightsbridge, London. It was originally the Wallace Hotel, and opened in 1858 on the site of what had been a pub, the White Horse, and soon acquired two adjoining houses to allow expansion. It was bought in 1863, by the Alexandra Hotel Company Limited, formed specifically for that purpose, and the much-enlarged and remodelled ""opulent"" hotel, probably designed by the architect Francis E. H. Fowler, opened in 1864. During the night on 11 May 1941, a large bomb went through five floors before exploding in the"
"Café de Paris (London) The Café de Paris is a London nightclub, located in the West End, beside Leicester Square on Coventry Street, Piccadilly. The Café de Paris first opened in 1924 and subsequently featured such performers as Dorothy Dandridge, Marlene Dietrich, Harry Gold, Harry Roy, Ken Snakehips Johnson and Maxine Cooper Gomberg. Louise Brooks made history when she worked there in December 1924, introducing the Charleston to London. Much of the early success of the Café de Paris was due to the visit of the then Prince of Wales who became a regular guest, often dining with notables from"
"D. Rockefeller, Theodore Roosevelt, C.V. Vanderbilt, Charles A. Pillsbury, Fred Pabst, Charles L. Tiffany, & William Steinway. It was at the Waldorf that Colonel Pepper is credited with introducing the world to the ""Old Fashioned"" cocktail, which was said to have been invented in his honor by a bartender at the famed Pendennis Club in Louisville. The Col. Pepper was a staunch advocate for the whiskey business. He was a vocal opponent of the infamous ""Whisky Trust"" of the 1890s. In 1890 he got the state of Kentucky to change its laws so that he could bottle his own whisky"
"Goring Hotel The Goring Hotel is a 5-star hotel in London, U.K. It is located near Buckingham Palace. The Goring Hotel was opened by Otto Richard Goring on 2 March 1910 and professed to be the first hotel in the world in which every room had a private bathroom and central heating. In 1914, The Goring became the command centre for the Chief of Allied Forces, and contact with President Woodrow Wilson during World War I was made from this hotel. In November 1917 it became the U.S. Army Headquarters in London, as it was adjacent to the American Naval"
"was placed there in 1953. The Criterion Bar is one of only two establishments permitted to serve liquor in G.K. Chesterton's 1914 novel, ""The Flying Inn"". Criterion Restaurant The Criterion Restaurant is an opulent restaurant complex facing Piccadilly Circus in the heart of London. It was built by architect Thomas Verity in ""Neo-Byzantine"" style for the partnership Spiers and Pond, which opened it in 1873. Apart from fine dining facilities it has a bar. It is a Grade II* listed building and is in the Top 10 most historic and oldest restaurants in the world. In the first Sherlock Holmes"
"William. Goring Hotel The Goring Hotel is a 5-star hotel in London, U.K. It is located near Buckingham Palace. The Goring Hotel was opened by Otto Richard Goring on 2 March 1910 and professed to be the first hotel in the world in which every room had a private bathroom and central heating. In 1914, The Goring became the command centre for the Chief of Allied Forces, and contact with President Woodrow Wilson during World War I was made from this hotel. In November 1917 it became the U.S. Army Headquarters in London, as it was adjacent to the American"
"London House (Chicago) The London House was a jazz club and restaurant in Chicago located at the corner of Wacker Drive and Michigan Avenue, in the London Guaranty and Accident Company Building, 360 N. Michigan Ave. It was one of the foremost jazz clubs in the country, once home to such luminaries as Oscar Peterson, Ramsey Lewis, Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, Marian McPartland, Dinah Washington, Cannonball Adderley, Erroll Garner, Ahmad Jamal, Nancy Wilson, Barbara Carroll, Bobby Short and many others. On the occasion of its 20th anniversary in November 1966, Frank Sinatra, Jr. headlined the club in his Chicago debut."
"Kimpton Fitzroy London Hotel The Kimpton Fitzroy London is a historic five-star hotel, located on Russell Square, Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden. It was known for much of its life as the Hotel Russell. The Hotel Russell was built in 1898 by the architect Charles Fitzroy Doll and opened in 1900. It is distinctively clad in decorative thé-au-lait (""tea with milk"") terracotta and was based on the Château de Madrid on the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. Its restaurant, which was named after the architect but is now called Neptune, is said to be almost identical to the"
"Plaza Hotel in New York. He is often credited with inventing many other cocktails, including the Bloody Mary, sidecar, the monkey gland, the boulevardier, and an early form of the French 75. As of 2011, his descendants continued to run Harry's Bar. Harry MacElhone Harry MacElhone (1890 – 1958) was an early 20th century bartender, most famous for his role at Harry's New York Bar in Paris, which he bought in 1923. MacElhone was born in Dundee, Scotland, on 16 June 1890, He began working at Ciro's Club in London after World War I and published ""Harry of Ciro's ABC"
"Ritz Fizz The Ritz Fizz was created as the Ritz-Carlton hotel chain's signature cocktail in 1934 upon the repealing of prohibition in the United States. It was first concocted in the bar at the former Ritz-Carlton Boston Hotel (renamed the Taj Boston on January 11, 2007) in Boston, Massachusetts. In a Champagne Flute glass mix: The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Montreal makes their version with 1/2 oz. (12.5 mL) of apple liqueur instead of the Amaretto and Blue Curaçao and garnishes it with a sugar cube dipped in raspberry liqueur. This is probably due to copyright infringement since the Montreal Ritz-Carlton"
"Dick Bradsell Richard Arthur ""Dick"" Bradsell (4 May 1959 – 27 February 2016) was a London bartender noted for his innovative work with cocktails, including the creation of many new drinks now considered to be modern classics. ""The Observer"" described him as the ""cocktail king"", while ""Waitrose Food Illustrated"" compared him to celebrity chefs and the ""San Francisco Chronicle"" credited him with ""single-handedly (changing) the face of the London cocktails scene in the 1980s."" Bradsell was born in Bishop's Stortford, England. Bradsell was acclaimed for inventing several new cocktails, including the Espresso Martini, the Bramble, the Treacle, the Carol Channing,"
"referenced the prohibition era as well as 1920s and 1930s in general. With its opening timed for the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, The Cocktail Parlor hosted numerous celebrity parties in its first month of operation. With the March 2014 launch of Byblos restaurant on the Storys building ground floor, The Cocktail Parlor soon closed permanently. Product, previously known as This is London until late 2012, was a multilevel nightclub featuring numerous bars, various private lounges, and a ladies spa all with a capacity of 1,200 people. It was set in a renovated 1936 warehouse at 364 Richmond Street West"
"of the period, known for his Martini, Manhattan and White Lady cocktails. Craddock invented the ""Dorchester of London"" cocktail here in the 1930s. The bar was refurbished in 1979. It was designed by Alberto Pinto with bleached wood, Provençale blue and white ceramic picture panels, and a mirrored ceiling. As of 2012, the bar is curved and is furnished with rich ""blacks, browns and aubergine – combined with lacquered mahogany, mirrored glass and velvet"". In the evenings, jazz is played in the bar. As of 2002, the Dorchester had 460 different wines in stock. A plane tree, with its monumental"
"was acquired by Kandy Hotels Company Limited who undertook extensive enlargements and improvements to the building, in order to make it into a first-class hotel. Notable attractions of the hotel are the Queen of Hearts restaurant, Royal Ball Room and The Pub Royal, the latter being the only British Pub in the city that offers service with old colonial flavor. The Lord Mountbatten Lounge Bar was named after Lord Mountbatten of Burma who was a frequent guest at the Queen's when he was the Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Theatre with the South East Asia Command based in Kandy."
"Chicago Cocktail The Chicago Cocktail is a brandy-based mixed drink probably named for the city of Chicago, Illinois. It has been documented in numerous cocktail manuals dating back to the 19th century. Chicago restaurant critic John Drury included it in his 1931 guide ""Dining in Chicago"", noting that it had been served at the American Bar in Nice and the Embassy Club in London. Whether it originated in Chicago is unknown. Recipes call for brandy; orange-flavored liqueur, such as curacao or triple sec; and bitters, stirred or shaken with ice, which may or may not be strained out afterward. In"
"to the name of the club where it originated—""the ""Manhattan"" cocktail"". However, Lady Randolph was in France at the time and pregnant, so the story is likely a fiction. However, there are prior references to various similar cocktail recipes called ""Manhattan"" and served in the Manhattan area. By one account it was invented in the 1860s by a bartender named Black at a bar on Broadway near Houston Street. The original ""Manhattan cocktail"" was a mix of ""American Whiskey, Italian Vermouth and Angostura bitters"". During Prohibition (1920–1933) Canadian whisky was primarily used because it was available. An early record of"
"Americano (cocktail) The Americano is an IBA official cocktail composed of Campari, sweet vermouth, and club soda. The cocktail was first served in creator Gaspare Campari's bar, Caffè Campari, in the 1860s. It was originally known as the ""Milano-Torino"" because of its ingredients: Campari, the bitter liqueur, is from Milan (Milano) and Punt e Mes, the vermouth, is from Turin (Torino). The name of the drink is an homage to Primo Carnera, who was the first Italian boxer (and the first non-American) to win the world heavyweight championship in the U.S.A. It is the first drink ordered by James Bond"
"Mayfair and the skyline of London from its own private terrace. The 13 Carriage House rooms and suites are located within a historic Grade II listed building, overlooking the private cobbled courtyard. The recently renovated rooms and suites have been decorated with an upscale countryside ambiance by New York designer Alexandra Champalimaud. These suites include the two bedroom townhouse, The Gatehouse, which can be booked as a junior suite, one bedroom suite or the full three story, two bedroom suite. The Stafford is renowned for The American Bar, which is one of the most unique cocktail bars in London due"
"was restored to the grand style of its 1915 heyday, significant changes were made. All guest rooms were converted to suites. In addition, Long Bar, which was a favorite spot of celebrities such as Somerset Maugham, was relocated from the lobby to a new adjoining shopping arcade. Long Bar is also where the national cocktail, the Singapore Sling was invented by bartender Ngiam Tong Boon. On July 18, 2005, it was announced that Colony Capital LLC would purchase Raffles Holdings for $1.45 billion. In April 2010, it was reported that a Qatari sovereign wealth fund bought Raffles Hotel for $275"
"in the first novel in Ian Fleming's series, ""Casino Royale"". In the short story ""From a View to a Kill"" Bond chooses an Americano as an appropriate drink for a mere café; suggesting that ""in cafés you have to drink the least offensive of the musical comedy drinks that go with them."" Bond always stipulates Perrier, for in his opinion expensive soda water was the cheapest way to improve a poor drink. Americano (cocktail) The Americano is an IBA official cocktail composed of Campari, sweet vermouth, and club soda. The cocktail was first served in creator Gaspare Campari's bar, Caffè"