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The Connaught bar
The World's Best Dry Martini? A visit to The Connaught Bar in Mayfair, London.
London, the perfect city for a weekend during all times of the year. When we visit the city, it is the beginning of December, and wherever you turn your eyes are beautiful decorations that reveal that Christmas is near. One reason to go to London is their wide selection of bars and restaurants.
The bar at The Connaught Hotel in Mayfair, The Connaught Bar, is well known for its long list of cocktails and exclusive decor that brings the mind back to the twenty's with classic elegance. If you want to have a drink somewhere, this is where the flavors are combined for the best possible experience. They have previously won awards for the world's best bar and we understand why: here you get a drink out of the ordinary.
Maybe you've thought about where to go to get that luxury feeling? Where to go if you want something extraordinary and want to take a break after walking the London streets? This is absolutely the place to go.
One enters through the hotel reception and then take a left at the beautiful bar. Here it is filled with stucco ceilings and exclusive details. What The Connaught Bar is best known for is their Dry Martini, produced on a drink cart with a choice of five different flavors, which vary depending on the time of year. Just this time there were, among other things, cardamom, coriander, tonka and lavender.
The drink trolley is being rolled in and you are allowed to smell all the different flavors to flavor the Dry Martini with. Then they take a number of drops with a pipette of the seasoning and marinate the perfectly domed glass in this essence. You can then choose the different spirits you want in and also choose if you want lemon or olives in your drink.
You can see, in their habitual movements, that they have long practiced serving the drink "The Connaught Style" when they stir in the drink with a movement that is beyond the ordinary. To get the best possible taste in their drink, they make a strip of lemon zest that the gin has to circulate to get all the flavors. Et Voilà, a drink out of the ordinary. The Connaught Bar in Mayfair is well worth a visit.
