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East Imperial Tonic Water review

This might be the tonic water you might not find directly. To be honest, I haven't heard of it before. When Florence from our supplier Classic Fine Foods asked me for a meeting, she made quite a mystery about the product, she wanted to let me try. We sat down and I tried - first of all neat - and than with gin [and ice]. I will spare, to bombard you with another story [which might or might not be created in a marketing department ]. But you want to know how it fares? The Presentation: This is just wow. The label coloured in a purple with silver fonts, is just beautiful. The funny thing is, that it comes also in very small bottles - 150 ml. But while the 125 ml of Fentiman's is really too short, the 150 ml seems really to work much better! Kudos to them - they really might have thought about it! However I still would prefer a bottle which is around 180 ml - I love my G&T double - and for a double, 150 ml might just be not enough! Neat: This tonic water seems dir...

Recycled Alchemist post - why popular bars lose their bar-attitude

I wrote this post in October 2012. And things have changed dramatically here in the ME. Fancy bars are rather losing business. Only few al fresco places and greasy spoon venues [pubs] are still successful or even gain more guests. Anyway - it is not only the business, which demands a change in the attitude of bars. Have fun to read this more than 4 years old post... Thursday in Dubai is like Saturday in Europe and the US. Everybody is going out! I am writing this, after the major business - it slowed down, after it was just more than busy, more than crowded - even more than crazy! Lets say it was insane! I don’t want to complaint. The revenue will be very good; we had not too many complaints; it was not too bad. However I just wanted to think loud, what is about bars which are so busy that they become “beyond” a bar!  The attitude of the guests, the loudness of the music, just the vibes are more like a nightclub than a bar. Again, I don’t want to complain beca...