Tag: alcohol
Pleasure December 2016
Crawling Through Clubland: St James's
One of London’s most prestigious area, St James’s, plays home to a number of fine establishments. Now, under the guidance of The Crown Estate, a handful of new rakish haunts…
Pleasure October 2016
The Silva Standard: Brian Silva
Balthazar’s revered bartender tells The Rake how to make four of America’s finest cocktails.
Pleasure October 2016
Straight Out Of Louisville: Woodford Reserve
As The Rake celebrates ‘America The Beautiful’, it’s only apt that we focus our attention on one of the nation’s most illustrious examples of a true Kentucky straight bourbon, Woodford…
Icons October 2016
The Bootleg Brethren: Prohibition's Heroes
How the lesser-known ne’er-do-wells of The Prohibition wove, with their antics, some of the richest folklore in American history.
Speed October 2016
Motors & Mixology: Bentley Celebrates London Cocktail Week
In this bespoke feature, The Rake explores Bentley’s intriguing collaboration with The Connaught on a new cocktail that encapsulates all that is remarkable about the automotive marque.
Pleasure September 2016
In Good Spirits: The Sipsmith Distillery
Founder Sam Galsworthy describes Sipsmith as a place “where old meets new and the two hit it off really quite spectacularly.” A sentiment that matches that of The Rake’s so…
Icons September 2016
Hemingway’s School of Hard Drinks
“Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary…” The Rake examines how Hemingway’s…
Code November 2015
I Drink, Therefore I Can
Alcohol, the abstemious naysayers claim, is a harmful depressant which impairs cerebral faculty. Try telling that, though, to the manifold writers, artists and other luminaries – not to mention a…