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The Cramond Inn You come here for the location, rather than the food and service. Located a few miles from the city centre, but easy to get to by public transport, this beautiful rustic Scottish boozer – or pub – is just a pebbles throw the shore. Once you’ve imbibed …

Drunk for a Penny. Dead drunk for twopence. Clean straw for nothing. —Sign outside a London gin shop, Circa 1700 England. 1688. James II sat on the throne. A Catholic, his reign had been one of religious tolerance, increased standards of living for the masses, and reduced tensions with France. …

Head west from London, through suburbs lazily tapering off into farmland and forests, and you will find yourself in the West Country, the umbrella term for the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, and Somerset. In the ’90s, Trip-Hop put Bristol and the region on the map. More contemporary Anglophiles may …

Has this happened to you? You’re scanning the menu at dinner, trying to decide what to eat, and you see that the restaurant is now adding a 20% service charge to every bill. No more tipping. Just 20% on the top, no matter how big or small your party is. …

New Zealand Wine are celebrating Sauvignon Blanc Week. At Drink Me, we’re never one to miss out on the party, so we’re bringing you our top picks of the best Marlborough SB you can find in the UK for less than £10. There is a whopping 18k hectares of Sauvignon …

On January 19th, 2010 a collective gasp was heard in Milwaukee as the news that Pizza Man had burned to the ground the night before. This was not just any neighborhood pizza joint. Pizza Man was an institution, a landmark, and possessor of one of the best wine collections in …

Watch out Scotland, there’s another whisky on the map. And it’s 100% London bred. This whisky’s breaking a particularly long dry spell—this is the first time in two hundred years that London is making whisky. Welcome back to the fold. London was once a proud whisky-producing city. In the late …

Imagine yourself on a desert island, or some kind of cocktail-zombie-apocalypse and you need a drink, natural coconut water, some island-made rum perhaps, zombie brain juice, what 5 pieces of kit would you need on your Mixology survival kit? What are the 5 essential pieces of bar equipment that every …

Many alcohol enthusiasts also happen to be aesthetically inclined. The wine and spirits industry has become a leader in fine design. Wineries and distillers have discovered that their target audiences (you and I) respond well to fine design, and even make purchases based on whether or not a bottle’s label …

Flames erupt from wooden canisters, wrapping the factory in a sheath of oaky smoke that turns incandescent under the ceiling lights. The white oak barrels are charred from the inside, their interiors turned a charcoal black that cracks and blisters under the heat. There is the sound of metal on …

Sleek with a laboratory flask flare, the Menu Wine Breather looks little like its intended task. An oval, disc like base attached to a long cylindrical neck—but what is it: a vase, an inverted funky wine glass, a graduated cylinder and Erlenmeyer flask hybrid, or simply a container for holding …

Scotland is a country forever associated with whisky, and many assume the Scots drink nothing but Scotch. But that couldn’t be further from the truth, particularly when you look at the huge rise of artisan gin taking over the traditional domain of the dram. Although gin is regarded as quintessentially English, …

We all know famed Napa Valley restaurants French Laundry and Meadowood, and boy do we love them. But our local pockets (as much as we would like to) can’t handle a 5-course meal every day. So where do we go? And more importantly, what do we eat when they go …