Tuesday, 22.5.2012

Mark Jenner at M bar Extraordinary Bacchanologist Cocktail Session in Mandarin Oriental

[16/05/11] 

Mark Jenner, an award-winning Bacchanologist from London, will be in the Mandarin Oriental this Saturday to show you how to make some extraordinary cocktails. What is a Bacchanologist, you say? We didn’t have the faintest clue either but it sounds like someone trying to convince the world they're more important than they are. Amazingly, Google couldn't help but apparently a Bacchanologist is an advanced mixologist who not only creates drinks but is also dedicated to studying their preparation and history.

Leaning on 13 years experience working in Michelin-starred restaurants, Mark will show you how to create four Asian influenced cocktails using No.3 London Dry Gin and The King’s Ginger Liqueur. He will also take you on a brief history of cocktail making and explain bar etiquette.

Bar etiquette was another thing we’d never heard of and refreshingly Google failed spectacularly again with top results including ‘The Pirate’s Guide to Bar Etiquette’ and ‘Dive Bar Etiquette’. So if you’re missing the sound of maternal disappointment, Mark will provide an ample, if slightly less alcoholic substitute for your mother, telling you exactly how to behave.

The cocktail session will be complemented by a dim sum lunch which we're sure will be fantastic – it’s in the MO after all - and the extravaganza is available for just 10 people at HKD888 + 10% service, so if you’re keen you’d better hurry.

Bacchanology? Well I never.


Mark Jenner at the M bar, Mandarin Oriental
Location: M bar, Mandarin Oriental, 5 Connaught Road, Central,
Date: May 21 (Sat), 12pm – 3pm
Tel: 2522 0111
Website: www.mandarinoriental.com