HotelChatter - Tag: Hotel Cocktails

New York : The Empire Hotel Celebrates Chuck Bass With Gossip Girl Cocktails

JetSetCD — 2009-11-23T16:33:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/Tartlet.jpg" class="top"> If you've been paying attention in the slightest to this most recent season of Gossip Girl, then you'll have noticed how New York's <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Empire+Hotel+NYC/local/1578">Empire Hotel</a> has become one of the characters, after it was bought by Chuck Bass. Now that the hotel is making appearances on TV, the real life property believes it should embrace the connection by debuting "Gossip Girl cocktails." Concocted by the Empire's cocktail consultant Somer Perez, there are drinks for each Gossip Girl main character (even the dudes!). You can find them being served in the hotel's Lobby Bar, and each cocktail is $15. There's even an "XOXO" cocktail, with secret ingredients they'll never tell. After the jump, the rest of the

New Orleans: Attention Tweens Over 21: Celebrate Twilight's 'New Moon' at Whiskey Blue Nola

juliana — 2009-11-13T09:24:26-05:00

Do you love, like really love "Twilight"? Have you read all the books front to back, twice? Are you holding countdown parties to the "New Moon" movie at your house? Would you turn immortal forever for Edward Cullen? And more importantly, are you over the age of 21?

Because that's how old you will need to be to attend the New Moon mania that's going on at Whiskey Blue New Orleans inside the W Hotel. All week long the trendy hotel bar will unabashedly embrace the "Twilight" craze and it's not entirely about Edward, Bella, and Jacob. There is an actual new moon happening on November 16th.

Miami : Droppin' It Low at Hotel Victor's 'Frost Bite Thursdays'

globetrotting gourmet — 2009-11-12T09:28:14-05:00

Temperatures may be dipping in some parts of the country, but the scene is still steamy in South Beach, where Hotel Victor the forecast is always cool on Frost Bite Thursdays.

Since its July launch, the weekly event’s been such a smashing success that the hotel recently added Garden Zen Thursdays for low(er)-key party hoppers. The way it works is Frost Bite goes on downstairs in the lobby, while Garden Zen takes place on the Vue Terrace right across from the pool. Feeling pepped up or played out -- there's a party for whatever your Thursday mood at Hotel Victor.

London: Cocktails Are Cheap If You Make Them Yourself at The Cumberland

juliab — 2009-10-29T10:07:14-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/carbonbar.jpg" class="top"> Were liking <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Guoman%20Hotels">Guoman Hotels</a> "cold weather means booze" approach this winter. Last week they announced the launch of their <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/22/72012/563/hotels/Get_Drunk_for_Charity_at_London_s_Guoman_Hotels">charity cocktails</a> at their four London hotels; this week, its the news that <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Cumberland+-+A+Guoman+Hotel/ian/114408">The Cumberland</a> are starting up private mixology classes at their trendy Carbon Bar. Hoxton Pony founder and BBC mixologist Andy Pearson is the man behind it again hes devised the classes and "trained the bar team" (though we hope they wouldnt need much training, what with being professional cocktail mixers in the first place). Anyway, sign up and theyll whip through the history of cocktails over a Bellini, before letting you loose on eight cocktail recipes: four classic, four contemporary, including

London: Get Drunk for Charity at London's Guoman Hotels

juliab — 2009-10-22T09:19:28-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/All_cocktails_1.jpg" class="top"> Weve had London hotels getting <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/16/93732/173/hotels/Go_Culture_Andaz_London_s_Reader_In_Residence_is_Up_for_an_Award">literary</a>, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/9/30/71724/9507/hotels/London_s_Hotels_Are_About_to_Get_Arty">arty</a>, and now it looks like theyre getting a conscience. Guoman Hotels, which owns four in the centre of town the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Royal+Horseguards+Hotel/local/1373">Royal Horseguards</a>, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Cumberland+-+A+Guoman+Hotel/ian/114408">The Cumberland</a>, Charing Cross and the Tower have commissioned one of the UKs top mixologists, Andy Pearson (co-founder of the ever-trendy Hoxton Pony), to create a new list of cocktails for their hotels. And 100% of the profits will go to charity. The charities in question are The Household Cavalrys Charitable Fund and Help for Heroes, both of which help injured British servicemen. And the drinks? Theres one for each hotel. The Cavalry Cocktail at The Royal Horseguards has port, cognac, Grand