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I knew just clashed with the eyes of honesty that I would like to update the house on the farm in Kent – because nothing says “make yourself at home”, just as you give your guests without a drink (and trusting them, moreover, to put it in their tab). Hidden in one of the jewelry drawing rooms, the grass was equipped with Vermouth Dolon, local white rocks, beer, wine, olives and a shaker. There were lemons (still glowing leaves), cold Campari soda and truffle crisps, and some pruning vieille for digestifs. I mixed a Martin, torn it up to my room and settled in a scratch game, healthy from the tinkling jazz.
“We wanted the update to feel very calm, as if you stayed in a friend’s house, so having a honesty bar seemed like a natural thing to do,” says its owner Ruth Leigh. “Some nights will go there and there is an improvised party vibe with people who make friends and hang.”
Honesty bars are also an essential part of ETT Hem, Hotel Townhouse with 25 bedrooms in Stockholm. It has three-one for each living room with bronze and wood from the studioilse and equipped with local souls and vintage deans filled with ready-made cocktails. There is also a choice of wines, the beer of self-tics of ETT hem and the champagne that rests in an ice bucket.
Visitors record their drinks in a small notebook. “We believe in honesty and work well,” says Märta Nacheson, director of ETT hem pr. “ETT hem means” at home “, so it was very important for us to create that environment.”
The charm of an honesty bar is that he allows to play guests and wait; To mix a cocktail for yourself or to pour a round of drama for friends after a day passed away wildly treading. The honesty bar in the House Lundies in the remote north of Scotland is designed precisely for its drawing room-to-side bypass by the Kyle of the Bharrich language and castle. Informally arranged on a side table, it contains dean of single malt and Isle of Harris Gin. There is also a second honesty bar outside, between both. Similarly, in the Kenmare Hotel Park in County Kerry, which has one of the largest collections of whiskey in Ireland, there is a whiskey cabinet in the bar that is always open to guests to explore.
Maybe you would prefer your rule from the pool – in this case there can be Sastre in Ibiza. The bar in this bleached agritorism contains local hierbas (anise liqueur) and mezcals. “It is a beautiful romantic atmosphere under the palm trees,” says owner Bibi van der Hout. “Created has created a very household feeling, holiday.”
Favorite Coombeshead food farm in Cornwall uses her grass to display seasonal cocktails and home -made vermouths. “There is always the risk that guests will drink more than they said or do not put it in the tab,” says Hannah Joyce of the farm. “But we think it’s worth using that chance to get that convincing feeling.”
Something particularly special about the sense of mutual trust that creates a proper tape, payer, honesty. But there is also a childish pleasure derived from a grass that is comprehensive. In Newt in Somersset, guests staying at the farm garden complex can help themselves for everything in the municipal bar, from green juices to jinn of the love of wealth itself. And in Emory, the first single hotel in London, where prices start with 1,140 pounds per night, you get a “Emory Assistant” who will send free drinks to your suite 24 hours a day. Spirits – in Dekanrara 100 ml – include Japanese Hibiki whiskey; Wines include Bags 2018 Pauillac de Lynch. Last minibar.
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