Cocktail tasting with
Alice Lascelles

This event is now sold out

Friday 23rd February 2023   7.30 pm
10A South Grove N6 6BS
Entry £32.50 including cocktail tasters and light snacks
Booking essential – click here. There will be no admission at the door on the night.

Join the Financial Times’s Alice Lascelles for a special evening of cocktail tasting and storytelling.  This is the third time Alice has appeared at the Society – her previous, immensely enjoyable, gin and whisky tasting evenings were both sold out.

Discover the secret to a perfect Martini, how the occasional cocktail cock-up can bear fruit and what transformative powers are contained in the humble ice cube. Alice believes cocktail making should be simple and stress free – easy to make with minimal equipment and fuss.  In her Highgate Society demonstration she will show how to make amazing cocktails with just a few basic tools, ingredients and techniques.  The Cocktail tasters will be accompanied by light snacks.

Alice said, “There are hundreds, if not thousands of cocktails in the world, with all sorts of flavours and names.  But most of them are really, in essence, just twists on a handful of classic drinks.  A Mint Julep is an Old Fashioned served over crushed ice and mint; a Boulevardier is a Negroni fortified with bourbon instead of gin; a French 75 is just a simple Gin Sour with a decadent slosh of Champagne.”

Alice Lascelles is an award-winning journalist, presenter and author who has been covering the world of drinks for more than twenty years. She grew up in Highgate and now lives in Kentish Town with her husband and two sons.

Alice writes a popular column for the Financial Times covering wine, spirits and bar culture and can also often be found talking about drinks on the television and Radio 4 programmes including Kitchen Cabinet and Broadcasting House. She loves giving talks and leading tastings and has hosted live events everywhere from the FT Weekend Festival in Kenwood, to the Speyside Festival and the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC.

She is the author of two books (with a third on the way). Her handbook for the home bartender, The Cocktail Edit (Quadrille 2022), was named a 2022 Book of the Year by The Times, The Financial Times, Esquire and Daunt Books. Cookery writer Diana Henry declared it ‘beautiful…a classy, classic book.’  Her awards include Fortnum & Mason Drinks Writer of the Year and International Wine & Spirits Competition Communicator of the Year. She is also a Chevalier of the Ordre des Coteaux de Champagne and a Keeper of the Quaich.