• About The Hedonist
  • Bar Talk-Where we’re drinking
    • The Polo Bar @ The Westbury
    • Pink Chihuahua
    • 69 Colebrooke Row – Review
    • The Bar at the George V Paris – Review
    • Duke’s Bar – Review
    • Bassoon Bar – Review
    • Banca – Review
    • THE EGERTON HOUSE BAR -Review
    • The Lucky Pig – Review
    • Beagle – Review
    • 214 Bermondsey – Review
  • London Restaurant Reviews
    • Caractère – Review Notting Hill
    • Patri – Review
    • Villa di Geggiano – Review
    • African Volcano @  Great Guns Social  
    • Beso – Review
    • Padella – Review
    • 28°-50° London Wine Workshop and Kitchen – Review
    • The Goring – Review
    • Freakscene – Review
    • CUB – Review
    • Tsukiji Sushi – Review
    • COYA Angel Court – Review
    • Nutbourne – Review
    • Galvin Bistrot de Luxe – Review
    • Palatino – Review
    • Lao Café – Review
    • Galvin at The Athenaeum – Review
    • 7 Park Place – Review
    • QP London – Review
    • Cinnamon Bazaar – Review
    • Chinese New Year @ Hakkasan
    • Dinner by Heston Blumenthal – Review
    • The Ritz @ Xmas – Review
    • Coriander – Review
    • El Parador – Review
    • Inamo – Review
    • Ostuni – Review
    • Chai Wu – Review
    • Shotgun BBQ – Review
    • Ormer Mayfair – Review
    • Review-The Angler
    • The Harcourt – Review
    • Pizzicotto – Review
    • The Painted Heron – Review
    • All Star Lanes – Review
    • Kurobuta Harvey Nichols – Review
    • Bangalore Express – Review
    • Zero Degrees – Review
    • Chakra – Review
    • Cottons Caribbean Restaurant and Salon de Rhum – Review
    • Lotus – Review
    • Charlotte’s W5 – Review
    • Massimo – Review
    • Brasserie Les 110 de Taillevent – Review
    • The Dalloway Terrace @ The Bloomsbury hotel – Review
    • Plum + Spilt Milk – Review
    • Bella Cosa – Review
    • Roka Aldwych – Review (with Bookatable)
    • Brasserie Gustave – Review
    • Muga – Review
    • Barrafina – Review
    • Charlotte’s Place – Review
    • The New St Grill – Review
    • The Lockhart – Review
    • Kêu – Review
    • The Richmond – Review
    • Allan Pickett @ Sanderson – Review
    • Scents of Summer Afternoon Tea @ The InterContinental London
    • Tartufi & Friends @ Harrods – Review
    • The Five Fields – Review
    • West Thirty Six – Review
    • Evoluzione @ Hotel Xenia Kensington – Review
    • Rex & Mariano – Review
    • Kitchen Table @ Bubbledogs – Review
    • John Doe – Review
    • Ceru – Review
    • Kouzu – Review
    • Enoteca Rabezzana – Review
    • Old Tom & English – Review
    • The Wallace – Review
    • Zaika – Review
    • Xmas at Boulestin – Review
    • Crocker’s Folly – Review
    • The Cavendish – Review
    • Laurent-Perrier at The New Angel – Review
    • Assado – Review
    • The Life Goddess – Review
    • Bubba Gump Shrimp Co – Review
    • Ember Yard – Review
    • The Palomar – Review
    • Blanchette – Review
    • Cannizaro House – Review
    • 1901 Restaurant at Andaz – Review
    • Notting Hill Kitchen – Review
    • The Guildford Arms – Review
    • Curry for Change @ Cafe Spice Namaste
    • Chotto Matte – Review
    • Lyle’s – Review
    • The Clove Club – Review
    • Quo Vadis – Review
    • Polpetto – Review
    • Osteria dell Angelo – Review
    • Amsterdam-Johannes Restaurant – Review
    • The Worlds End Market – Chelsea
    • Brigade Bar & Bistro- Review
    • La Polenteria – Review
    • Mele e Pere – Review
    • La Mancha – Review
    • The Well – Review
    • Harrods The Salad Kitchen – Review
    • Layla – Review
    • See Sushi – Review
    • Pescatori Mayfair – Review
    • Flesh & Buns – Review
    • Grain Store – Review
    • Acciuga – Review
    • Pizza Pilgrims – Review
    • Les Trois Garcons – Review
    • Little Social – Review
    • Review-Ametsa with Arzak Instruction
    • Review-Balthazar
    • Reviews-Brasserie Zedel
    • Review-Copita
    • Review-Hawksmoor Air St.
    • The Glasshouse – Review
    • Review-Coya
    • 214 Bermondsey – Review
  • Travel
    • Tuscany
      • Tuscany-A Florentine Feast with Anna Bini
      • Tuscany-Olive Oil Pressing in Pistoia-Olio Nuovo
      • Tuscany-Pecorino and Ricotta from the Pistoia Hills
  • Music
    • When A Gig Goes Wrong – Pop Music’s Hall of Shame

The Hedonist

The London Gin Club at The Star at Night-Soho

July 20, 2012 by Adrian 1 Comment

Follow @Hedonisttweets

The London Gin Club at The Star at Night-Soho

 The Star at Night, 22 Great Chapel Street, London, W1F 8FR      
thestaratnight.com info@thestaratnight.com
thelondonginclub.com thelondonginclub@gmail.com
The Crossrail development has bitten a huge chunk out of Soho with the upper end of Dean St being completely flattened. Fortunately untouched although right on the edge of the action is Julia Forte’s The Star at Night, a boho little bar that doubles as the HQ of The London Gin Club. How those four little words make my heart sing… and when Julia invited me to the launch of their Gin Jaunts menu, two flights of four gin and tonics, I knew where my duty lay. The bar room is a period piece with red tile flooring and old rather than distressed wooden fittings. Antique tinplate adverts line the walls and there is a basement to cope with larger crowds or events.

Disaffected revolutionary barstaff

The bar staff  have the look of disaffected revolutionaries who have traded in their Uzis for a life serving the nobler cause of mixing the perfect drink. Sophisticated  Sohoites should give thanks that they have chosen to ply their trade at The Star at Night rather than servicing the stupid rich in London’s hotel bars as the quality of both the ingredients and blending is very high.

        The G&Ts all featured the award-winning Fever-Tree Tonic; Fever-Tree are the new kids on the block in the world of mixers and their products stand out from the sugary fakeries that most bars serve allowing the spirit flavours to come through. Unusually the drinks were all served in balloon glasses, rather than the usual highball, which Julia insists are the best for allowing the gin to come to life and certainly made the physical act of drinking easier…possibly too easy…
Gin is essentially the same spirit as vodka that has been redistilled sometimes several times over with added botanical essences the most well known of which is juniper, but the Gin Jaunts menu offers the happy imbiber the opportunity to try out more subtle and interesting combinations.
Amongst my favourites of the …eight that I drank were the Sacred featuring Sacred Gin created by distiller Ian Hart in his Highgate home which features 12 different botanicals including juniper, cardamon, nutmeg and frankincense given a citrus twist with a garnish of grapefruit and rosemary.

Hendrick's

The Hendrick’s is a more widely available gin with infusions and garnishes of rose petal and cucumber.

Bloom

For those of you with a sweeter tooth the Bloom is just the ticket. It’s a London Dry Gin with botanicals of chamomile, pomelo and honeysuckle with a strawberry garnish. I can also recommend the delicious Rangpur flavoured with the rare Rangpur mandarin lime and the boutique Scottish Caorunn which somehow transports you to those boggy peat filled moors of the distant imagination-or maybe that was just the gin talking.
All in all a great time was had by all and The Hedonist can heartily recommend The Star at Night/ The London Gin Society for pre-dinner drinks or a night out in its own right. It’s great to go to a place where the concept hasn’t been imposed by external consultants and that has an sense of integrity in its pursuit of excellence.
The London Gin Club
The Star at Night
22 Great Chapel St
Soho
London W1F 8FR
0207 494 2488
www.thelondonginclub.com
www.thestaratnight.com
The Hedonist drank as a guest of The London Gin Club

Filed Under: Restaurants & Bars

Trackbacks

  1. 214 Bermondsey - Review - The Hedonist says:
    May 10, 2013 at 1:21 pm

    […] The London Gin Club at The Star at Night-Soho […]

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Tags

Acciuga Belgravia Brighton Bruno Loubet Camden Chelsea Chiswick Cocktails Covent Garden Curry D@D Fitzrovia Gallery Mess gin Hackney Harrison's Harrods Hoxton Indian Islington Italian Japanese Kensington King's Rd London London-Unattached Marylebone Mayfair Namaaste Kitchen Negroni Notting Hill pan-asian Peru Peruvian Pizza Restaurant sake Sam's Shoreditch Sloane Square Soho tapas The Hedonist The Saatchi Gallery Tony Conigliaro

Copyright © 2023 · Magazine Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in