Gin O’Clock: Matthew Steeples Comment

Gin O’Clock

Celebrate World Gin Day at The Rib Room At 12 noon I often receive a message from my good friend the photographer to the stars, John Stoddart. As a fellow gin aficionado, we regularly raise a toast to one another as well as all manner of others things. After all, as they say: “If […]

By The Steeple Times◆5 June 2012◆2 minute read

Celebrate World Gin Day at The Rib Room

At 12 noon I often receive a message from my good friend the photographer to the stars, John Stoddart. As a fellow gin aficionado, we regularly raise a toast to one another as well as all manner of others things. After all, as they say: “If you can’t have one eleven, have eleven at one.”

gin-lane — Hogarth’s famous print “Gin Lane”

Saturday 9^th June marks a celebration of all things gin as it is World Gin Day™ and I am pleased to share with you news of a brilliant way of celebrating what could become the only invented celebratory day that I will agree to embrace with gusto. The Rib Room at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower is offering a Sloane Street Vesper to all who take their mum to their bar and quote the words “Mother’s Ruin” absolutely free of charge.

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The drink itself consists of a combination of Sipsmith Gin, Pinky Vodka, Americano Cocchi and Lillet Blanc served straight up. The Rib Room themselves describe it as being: “Cheek, chic, pose and poise.”

I’ll certainly be there to celebrate “Gin O’Clock.” Make mine a treble.

The Rib Room Bar & Restaurant, Jumeirah Carlton Tower, Cadogan Place, London, SW1X 9PY. Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7858 7250. Website: http://www.theribroom.co.uk.

Follow The Rib Room on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/RibRoomSW1

For more information about World Gin Day™, go to: http://worldginday.com