Places are 69 for an entire evening of free flowing cocktails and food. It would make a lovely birth

Last week I stayed as a guest at Ten Manchester Street , an elegant townhouse hotel in Marylebone. Tucked away on a quiet side street, yet within walking distance of the most fun parts of London, makes it an excellent location for a weekend in the city.
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The food is decent and reasonably priced, especially if you opt for the set menu. My baked halibut with lemon and rosemary potatoes was delicious, as was the seafood pie. If you're a smoker, you'll appreciate the semi-outdoors enclosed cigar terrace which is so cosy that you'll feel like you're off somewhere exotic on holiday. Try the Tobacco Road cocktail, made with rum and tobacco liqueur, which tastes so smoky that I expected a puff of smoke to appear when I breathed out. In the morning, you can help yourself to the continental breakfast or order a full English which, I'm told, features the best black pudding EVER.
But you're not here to hang out eating. Staying here means easy access to Selfridges , the Wallace Collection , the shops of Bond Street and Oxford Street, the Sherlock Holmes Museum , Atherton Cox (best lash extensions and brow threading in London) and Regents Park. Basically, all the best bits of London stratosphere hotel and casino are in tottering distance. Rooms start at 149 per night - if you're really splashing out, you can get a garden terrace room for 249.
Time your visit for one of their monthly cocktail masterclasses , held in a secluded area of the dining room. Themed by ingredients, I rocked up to the vodka class. The invitation stratosphere hotel and casino opened in the finest way known to humankind: "your evening begins with a champagne reception".
We each had our own cocktail station complete with various glasses, stratosphere hotel and casino a strainer, Boston shaker and wooden muddler. The table was strewn with tempting ingredients like vanilla sugar syrup, basil leaves, stratosphere hotel and casino lime juice and chopped lemon, and smelled and looked delicious.
Head mixologist Joel Lawrence talked us through how to make three cocktails, including stratosphere hotel and casino a decent vodka martini and a vodka sour. If you're as inept at cocktail making as I am, then don't worry: this evening doesn't take itself too seriously. One instruction was "it should look like the bottom of a pond" as we bashed together basil and ginger, and no-one minded the class coming to a halt for several minutes when I discovered I couldn't unwedge my shaker.
Places are 69 for an entire evening of free flowing cocktails and food. It would make a lovely birthday or hen night treat that you'll be talking about for months. There's a lethal sounding gin and vodka evening on 23 May, and a Pimms and champagne evening on 20 June.
Oh, do, it was so much fun. Beforehand, I d thought 69 was far too much for a cocktail evening - and while it s a lot of money, it s worth it for a special night out. Endless booze and snacks and gossip. Delete Reply Add comment Load more...
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