Brixton cocktail bars are starting to sound like the pisstake Bar Guide by Chris Morris

[editor]

The guy was well ahead of the curve on this.







Brixton bar here

 

[editor]

Here's the intro (the site is offline so these are screengrabs)

 

[Mr Retro]

The Key is fucking funny

 

[editor]

"Style Bishop."
"Square Bubble Moss Beer"

 

[SarfLondoner]

"shaved horse dancing"

 

[editor]

Utter genius.

 

[teuchter]

If only Chris Morris would somehow do a parody of U75. I'd pay him to do that.

 

[Supine]

Connexity. Brilliant

 

[story]

"shaved horse dancing"

 

[story]

"Style Bishop."

 

[discobastard]

If only Chris Morris would somehow do a parody of U75. I'd pay him to do that.

He is (or was) a brixton resident I believe?

 

[leanderman]

He is (or was) a brixton resident I believe?

Yep. On an imposing road off Brixton Hill

 

[teuchter]

An aquaintance of mine spotted him once in the Nisa on Brixton Hill, I understand.

 

[leanderman]

An aquaintance of mine spotted him once in the Nisa on Brixton Hill, I understand.

His is a spectacular house

 

[teuchter]

His is a spectacular house

Are you he?

 

[leanderman]

Are you he?

Er, nope. And I didn't much like Four Lions either

 

[editor]

Order an Autopilot (£8.50), and the citrous tequila blend in a delicate coupe glass is supplied with a DIY paper aeroplane kit

Bandage of Brothers (snow queen vodka, poppy liqueur, wolfschmidt kummel, sherbert, sweetener, gunpowder) came with a little army man attached via a plaster, and a banger to throw on the floor at any time - the element of surprise and all that.

blowtorched fennel.

Aesthetics are obviously very important to you. What’s the most ‘instagrammable’ cocktail on your menu?For us it is the Deer Hunter, which tells a story most akin to The Shrub & Shutter. It’s a banging cocktail alongside a simple but exciting plate of food. Some of the instagrammable ones we are yet to unleash!

You Can’t Handle Chartreuse (top) which combines Portobello Road Gin, Del Maguey Mescal, yellow Chartreuse, pineapple, lemon and elderflower, served with gummy bears and thyme.

If the senses are experimented with in food, the next step is to bridge the sensual experience between food and drink; and these tasting plates and alco-pairings make for great chat and a solid contributor to an evening spent in Brixton, grazing between bars like this and Three Eight Four.

a delicious mix of gin, pineapple, cardamom bitters and sage leaves served with a quirky pill box of pineapple pills

Hard to work out where Chris Morris ends, really.