Venues

Pretzels and Beer? Scotch and Cigar? How can cupcakes like these not be divinity edibly-incarnate?

The whole of the U.S. condensed to a mere 9-bar bar crawl? Thank the good Leslie Pariseau over at GQ. And then go and see who made the cut…

Shrimpy’s, the latest pop-up from Bistrotheque, has three interesting things going for it: long-term transience, its Ruscha-esque signage, and the entirely fictitious Shrimpy himself.

Little satisfies the trend-trapper like a pocket of perfectly contained micro-trend. Especially when it occurs simultaneously on both sides of the Atlantic. Which delivers us to Bathtub Gin.

The Hendrick’s car still brings a gin-tinged smile and Alex Kammerling has his cocktail ice-cream bike. But this – by Brad Ford, Jim Meehan and Moore & Giles – blows them out the water.

Bare minutes after we finished interviewing Tony C for our inaugural Chaser article, the marvellous Todd Selby put this little beauty online.

Like Central London’s fabulous School of Life – but with more of a sense of humour. The new Idler Academy ticks a few of The Boilermaker’s favourite boxes.

With a little help from Ketel One, Soho’s celebrated Quo Vadis bar is gaining a little sister. Well, not so much a sister, perhaps, as fully re-vamped appendage…

Our friends over at Urban Junkies just published their annual round-up of the year’s best new bars.

Clothing meet booze in the heart of NYC. Could we be any happier?