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Alex Mennie

Alex Mennie

  • Bring a barrel: Designing your own whisky with Holyrood Distillery

    by Alex Mennie November 28, 2020

    According to the Scotch Whisky Association, there are currently 22 million casks maturing in Scotland. That’s enough for at least four casks for every resident, which should be enough to…

  • Luxuriate Escapes: The Culloden Estate and Spa, Belfast

    by Alex Mennie June 19, 2020

    There are few occasions in my life when I’ve felt like a Bishop. Excluding perhaps the university party where I dressed as Gandalf (well, the robes are similar) and any…

  • Making my own whisky: A night at the Black Rock Blending Room

    by Alex Mennie April 14, 2020

    Blended whisky gets a bad rap. Among a certain category of whisky drinkers – usually, it must be said, those with a dangerously limited knowledge of the category – there’s…

  • Exploring Terroir at the K Bar, Kensington

    by Alex Mennie April 3, 2020

    Terroir – A word in the wine world where you have to judge your audience before you start discussing terroir. Pick the wrong time or place and you could end…

  • In search of London’s Opium, Chinatown

    by Alex Mennie February 28, 2020

    It is, perhaps, a little trite to suggest that the denizens of London have had their struggles with opiates in the past. From Phileas Fogg missing a steamer due to…

  • Cocktails at Nine Lives, Bermondsey

    by Alex Mennie December 19, 2019

    Given that so much of what we think we know about modern cocktail culture stems from the work of Ian Fleming, it seems strange that there’s no bar in his…

  • North East Indian fare at Kanishka Restaurant, Mayfair

    by Alex Mennie December 13, 2019

    You, cosmopolitan reader of Luxuriate, are bound to be have noticed that we do love an up-market Indian restaurant! Kanishka in the heart of Mayfair is Atul Kochhar’s latest restaurant…

  • The Luxuriate Guide to: Pairing seafood & sake – a fresh new synergy

    by Alex Mennie November 16, 2019

    Some food and wine pairings are so iconic that even the most ardent oenophobe could reach for them if pushed: bold red wines with steak, dry white wines with fish,…

  • Discovering the delights of Bob’s Lobster, London Bridge

    by Alex Mennie November 9, 2019

    Any week in which you find yourself eating lobster three times is a hard week, and I had certainly put in the hours of research in the northeast of Scotland…

  • Dinner at Tamarind Restaurant, Mayfair

    by Alex Mennie March 25, 2019

    London’s very first Michelin-starred Indian restaurant, Tamarind Mayfair, returns after an eight-month hiatus with an impressive refurbishment.  Since then, it has doubled in size so we dropped by to see…

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    January 12, 2021

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