Tasting Britain
5CC Launch Party @ 5cc Singer Tavern, Old Street, London
5cc / Barworks / LDR Creative invited Tasting Britain down to the launch of their latest outlet in City Road, Old Street. As a launch party, what you get is NOT representative of an actual dining/drinking experience, though you get to see what the place is like in a nutshell and basically PARTY HAADO with a bunch of people you have (usually) never met on a limited selection of cocktails. The amount of money that must be rinsed on a launch party terrifies my inner accountant (because we all have inner accountants, right?). Theyâre trying to bring back the Three Martini Lunch - except it this case it was more like the Twelve Martini Missed Dinner.
For those who don't know, the 5CC cocktail bars are basically subterranean, alcohol powered outlets that live underneath more conventional Barworks pubs (this one being the Singer Tavern - a grade II listed pub, dontchya know?). Speaking as a photographer, the lighting in these places is immaculate. Something about the way they design the interior just makes all your shots look like some next level Pulitzer Price winning shit, and without trying all that hard or putting in too much time in Photoshop. Which is nice when you've had a couple of Old Fashioneds and aren't doing too well at the whole 'manual focus thing'
So yeah, we've only visited one other so far, which was 5CC City Of London. That one focuses a little more on whisky (though not to the exclusion of their cocktail menu) and has some next level Scotch. I would like to come back to 5CC Singer Tavern and do a proper review. They supposedly focus on gin (someone tells me they have over 200?), and so we would put their gins to the test. Also the staff are bros and I reckon if they can survive the insanity of a launch night without losing it, theyâre going to do just fine in the long run. Well done (again) Barworks.
Additional fun fact - this area downstairs was the original basement production area for Singer sewing machines (hence the name). You can tell if you look carefully :3
5CC Launch Party @ 5cc Singer Tavern, Old Street, London
5cc / Barworks / LDR Creative invited Tasting Britain down to the launch of their latest outlet in City Road, Old Street. As a launch party, what you get is NOT representative of an actual dining/drinking experience, though you get to see what the place is like in a nutshell and basically PARTY HAADO with a bunch of people you have (usually) never met on a limited selection of cocktails. The amount of money that must be rinsed on a launch party terrifies my inner accountant (because we all have inner accountants, right?). Theyâre trying to bring back the Three Martini Lunch - except it this case it was more like the Twelve Martini Missed Dinner.
For those who don't know, the 5CC cocktail bars are basically subterranean, alcohol powered outlets that live underneath more conventional Barworks pubs (this one being the Singer Tavern - a grade II listed pub, dontchya know?). Speaking as a photographer, the lighting in these places is immaculate. Something about the way they design the interior just makes all your shots look like some next level Pulitzer Price winning shit, and without trying all that hard or putting in too much time in Photoshop. Which is nice when you've had a couple of Old Fashioneds and aren't doing too well at the whole 'manual focus thing'
So yeah, we've only visited one other so far, which was 5CC City Of London. That one focuses a little more on whisky (though not to the exclusion of their cocktail menu) and has some next level Scotch. I would like to come back to 5CC Singer Tavern and do a proper review. They supposedly focus on gin (someone tells me they have over 200?), and so we would put their gins to the test. Also the staff are bros and I reckon if they can survive the insanity of a launch night without losing it, theyâre going to do just fine in the long run. Well done (again) Barworks.
Additional fun fact - this area downstairs was the original basement production area for Singer sewing machines (hence the name). You can tell if you look carefully :3