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showcases and highlights the social life and scene of our beautiful city, covering all the misadventures and shenanigans at various cultural events, mixers, parties, meetups, and local happenings. |
Volume 17: 聽party at in Gastown on May 16, 2011. More photos available on 听补苍诲 .
To promote their gin, Bombay Sapphire organized an exclusive demonstration of prohibition era cocktails and recipes in the theme of a speakeasy party.
UK mixologist Merlin Griffiths showed us how to make some old school concoctions. Food Network host聽 demonstrated some quick and dirty gin inspired recipes including some delicious turkey bites (above).
Lovelies (top left to right) like PR professional along with and all enjoyed the french highballs and Dorothy Parker cocktails.
Among the appetizers served were sweet potato chips, roasted potatoes, clams, and scallops. I was craving something more substantial by the end of a the night and hopped to for some whiskey (bourbon) sours and appetizers.
Friendly faces were abound including and being silly, enjoying some gin cocktails.
host was unrecognizable in her authentic prohibition flabber dress posing with food writer . She did a聽demonstration聽of the classic '20-30s era recipes earlier that morning on .
It was fun socializing with a interesting theme. It reminded me of the Yelp Prohibition Pretend Elite Party at the last year. They even had a pretty good big band style set of musicians to set the mood. There were plenty of lovely people around like blogger Mijune Pak (above posing with Sophia).
You can see (left to right) Merlin, Dawn, and Corbin enjoying a gin cocktail at the end of the night. Thanks and shout out to , finally meeting聽 from , and seeing聽 and from as well. Cheers.
