Edinburgh Cocktail Week has introduced the schedule for the pageant happening October 7-16. The road-up is the largest within the occasion’s historical past and contains 21 pop-up bars within the Cocktail Village, an interactive Mirror Mirror Bar, headline music acts, and quite a few experiential occasions.
“Every year we proceed to develop the pageant by introducing new experiences and partnerships,” mentioned Gary Anderson, managing director of Edinburgh Cocktail Week. “This yr sees our largest and finest program but with so many enjoyable new options and occasions for wristband-holders to take pleasure in.
“With the price of every thing going up, and folks feeling the pinch, we’re proud to supply a pageant that’s inclusive, with superb £5 cocktails at 120 bars throughout the town and free entry to the Cocktail Village. We will’t wait to welcome again native cocktail-lovers, and new guests to champion Edinburgh’s bar scene.”
The Mirror Mirror Bar positioned atop the Glasshouse Lodge is an enclosed shimmering neon area the place visitors will be capable to take pleasure in cocktails by whispering their order to the mirror wall and watch because the cocktail ‘magically’ seems by way of the wanting glass. The wristband holders will take pleasure in cocktails ‘as they’ve by no means skilled earlier than’.
Tickets price £15 per particular person and embrace entry, two cocktails, and a 90-minute reservation, with extra cocktails obtainable from £5.
Moreover, 9 ‘status’ venues have been introduced that may provide festival-goers an ‘elevated’ cocktail expertise created by a few of the metropolis’s world-class mixologists. These venues embrace Hey Palu, Harrods Champagne Bar, and Panda & Sons.
The pageant has additionally launched eating places to its occasion program. Wristband-holders can take pleasure in a complimentary cocktail once they dine at a few of the metropolis’s eating places, together with El Cartel, Superico, Luckenbooths, Dine, and Heron.
The Cocktail Village might be open to wristband holders at Pageant Sq., open each day between 12 pm – 11 pm (BST). Entry is free with a wristband and inside visitors can take pleasure in £5 cocktails from 21 pop-up bars that includes a spread of native and worldwide manufacturers together with Gray Goose, Tequila Rose, Jack Daniel’s, London Essence, and Stranger’s Level Gin – a brand new native gin model that may launch solely on the village.
A brand new addition to the Cocktail Village is a ‘Takeover Bar’ the place a few of Edinburgh’s prime bars collaborate with Bacardi Martini manufacturers; Hey Palu with Bacardi, Commons Membership with Patron, Nauticus with Dewar’s, and Hawksmoor with Bombay Sapphire.
New and bespoke experiences might be provided all through the week, together with a 30-minute expertise referred to as Dramming within the Darkish with The Glenlivet, which is able to take guests by way of ‘a tasting like no different’. The expertise will characteristic expertly curated music and a light-weight present that may replicate the person tasting notes of three whiskies, contained in edible capsules relatively than served in glasses. The sensory whisky tasting expertise might be priced at £10 per particular person.
For extra data, take a look at Edinburgh Cocktail Week’s official web site.
