Everyone has a favourite bar, the one you compare all the others too, the one that you feel most at home in and the one you’ll never replace.
For us 69 Colebrooke Row embodies all of those traits and this year pioneering drinks creator and author Tony Conigliaro will release a compendium of his award winning work in the drinks world with a cocktail book named after his infamous bar 69 Colebrooke Row. Revealing for the first time the inner workings of the ‘The Bar With No Name’, the book is a celebration of the bar, its cocktails and their clientele.
Five years after opening, 69 Colebrooke Row remains one of the most intriguing and exciting bars in global cocktail culture. Reminiscent of a 1950s Italian café, and influenced by film noir, the bar thrives on the ability to surprise, reinvent and experiment. For Tony and his team, great care has been taken in sourcing unusual ingredients to make each drink entirely unique. From re-workings of classic cocktails such as a Fig Tom Collins and Green Almond Army & Navy, along side cocktails of his own making, the drinks combine bespoke flavour profiles and offer a delicious sensory experience.
Filled with stunning photographs and illustrations, the book includes 40 iconic drinks recipes, which have featured on the menu since opening in 2009, along with the story behind them. It records some of the most innovative serves created by the team at 69 including the Barbershop Fizz – inspired by the refreshing sensation of an open razor shave combining pine-infused gin, birch and vanilla syrup, patchouli-infused mint, lime juice and soda water – and the Terroir – a distillation of flint, lichen and clay. The book also brings to light the world of the bar beyond the drinks: the clientele of eccentric regulars, drinks enthusiasts and locals, as well as the bartenders themselves. Tony comments, ‘the pleasure of drinking in a bar is a pleasure of many kinds. Each of my drinks will tell you a story, if you are willing to hear it.’
The new book is the perfect accompaniment to Tony’s first cocktail publication Drinks: Unravelling the Mysteries of Flavour and Aroma in Drink in 2012. Winner of the celebrated James Beard Foundation prize for drinks writing, Drinks explores the inner workings of Tony’s research collective and flavour laboratory Drink Factory.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY 69 COLEBROOKE ROW!
