Wednesday, June 29, 2011

O2 LUX PULSE | LONDON > Lobster + Steak £25 at Floridita


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Latin Passion, Soho Style



Floridita's menu is bursting with fresh seafood and succulent steaks from grass-fed Rose County Black Angus cattle, aged for 28 days and personally prepared by Exec Chef and Master Butcher, Richard Sawyer.  Now you can enjoy the best of both - and for just £25 per person.
For a limited time, Floridita is delighted to offer you half a Lobster served with an 8oz Picanha (rump) steak renowned for its rich, meaty flavour (no wonder it's the favourite cut of meat in Brazil).  Keeping both company is a side of chips
To accompany this culinary feast we recommend you top things off with a bottle of Rosa de los Vientos, an affordable sparkling rosé from Patagonia in Argentina.
Book online here or call 020 7314 4000 (available Tuesday to Thursday and 5:30pm - 7pm Friday and Saturday nights).
Lobster_and_Steak£25



Hot-Hot-Hot on the Floridita Dancefloor



Fridays and Saturdays are always party nights at Floridita - the dressed-up crowd loves getting down and dirty to live sets from the Floridita All-Stars and late-night Latin and funky house grooves from accalimed DJ Ady Jay, live on stage from around half past eleven.
Click here to request a guest list.
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Sones De Oreintes - extended due to popular demand.



Cuban son mixes Spanish guitar with the rhythm and beats of Africa to create infectious music for night-times and dancing, especially salsa.  Made internationally famous by the Buena Vista Social Club, you can catch Cuban son yourself every night in Floridita, played live by the brilliant Sones De Orientes who have flown over from Santiago in Cuba to make your evening truly memorable.

Call 020 7314 4000 or book online.
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100 WARDOUR STREET | LONDON W1F 0TN
020 7314 4000 | info@floriditalondon.com
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

O2 LUX PULSE | > The Experimental Cocktail Club - London




by Dr. Damigo; PhD


The Experimental Cocktail Club, a speakeasy-style bar owned by the same trio of Frenchmen behind ECC's Parisian sister, is the kind of place you whisper to friends about.

The three-floored old Georgian townhouse is set behind a small rusty door in Chinatown - just the place to hide a covert cocktail haunt. Inside, we stumble past a workman to climb a dimly lit stairwell, guided by a sultry French waitress.

Once in, it's all exposed brickwork, low lighting, a heavy hum of late-night chatter and the chink of crystal glasses. Nina Simone's Sinner Man plays gently in the background.
First up, though some time after we order, an Opium Express and a Negroni de Provence arrive.

The former, like a more daring Cosmopolitan made with purple shiso-infused vodka, goji liqueur, goji syrup, lemon and dragon fruit, slips down easily and has a refreshing, bittersweet aftertaste, the poppy seeds adding a delicate crunch. Sadly the Negroni, though embellished with pretty swirls of orange and lemon rind, tastes like soap: the blend of lavender-infused gin and herbes de Provence-infused Lillet Blanc and Suze is overpowering and over-herbed.

Next up: the Renaissance, a nuanced, faintly fizzy mixture of Aperol, Hendrick's gin, home-made rhubarb syrup and champagne. But it is the Havana that really stirs us. A super-smooth blend of Cuban cigar-infused bourbon, bitters and whisky, it tastes like a cigar but has a long-lasting caramel and then whisky flavour that lingers for minutes.

Upstairs is less classy, more cool. A couple get intimate in one corner while gaggles of girls sit about gossiping. The loos are adorned with flamingo wallpaper, and illuminated by lights inside teapots on strings.

It is worth peeking through the small door to the kitchen to see rows of gin bottles and stacks of goji syrup containers lining the shelves. This is a place for serious mixology - there is no flare bartending here. The cocktails are made by French baristas who you can watch at work in overhead mirrors. It is a kind of hush-hush hideaway you might take someone on a second date.

At 11pm, the well-heeled crowd make way for a younger pack in short skirts and stilettos looking for somewhere to continue the party. So at half past midnight we share a Madras Flip - a well-balanced, creamy mix of cognac, five-year-old rum, cream, chai syrup, egg and a light sprinkling of nutmeg - and pad down the stairwell into an almost luminous Chinatown.

Rating: 4 out of 5Victoria Stewart's rating



13A Gerrard Street, W1

Phone: 020 7434 3559

Opening hours: Open 6pm-3am, closed Sunday

Nearest tube: Leicester Square Transport for London

Cuisine: Other

Average price: About £10 per cocktail

A cosmopolitan mix to savour

The Experimental Cocktail Club

Taste the atmosphere — and some intriguing drinks — at a new Soho speakeasy



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