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Alex Wilder

Inception Group wins Best Hospitality Group Of The Year…. and more…

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We are incredibly honoured and proud to have won 3 awards in the past 2 weeks. As the group continues to grow we hope our collection of awards will follow suit! As Co-Founder Duncan Stirling said#WeAreGoingToNeedATrophyCabinet !

London Lifestyle Awards: Best Hospitality Group 2014, 2015, 2016

To win it once was very special, then to follow up last year with another win was a complete surprise but to win it an unprecedented three times is truly amazing. We are very proud to win Best Hospitality Group in London once again.

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2016 Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR): Inception Group – Late Night Drinks Award 2016

We were delighted to attend the 2016 Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) Late Night Awards and honoured to win the award for Late Night Drink against some fierce national competition including Be At One, Dirty Martini (Covent Garden Restaurants), and New World Trading Company.

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Imbibe Drinks List: Mr Fogg’s – Themed Drinks List Of The Year 2016

‘ What really made venue stand out was how they interpreted their chosen theme and carried it through to every single element of their drinks list; from their carefully curated spirits choices to cleverly named cocktails, original recipes and creative drinks list design’.

To see the other shortlisted competitors click here.

BungaTINI Opens!

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BungaTINI is an all day trattoria and bar open from 7am-1am serving coffee, breakfast, lunch, aperitivo, dinner, drinks, and everything in-between.

Inspired by a neighbourhood back-street Italian bar/pizzeria, it serves a delicious range of home-made pastries, pizzas and classically simple regional dishes available to eat in or take away. The bar houses a large selection of Italian wines, beers, proseccos and vermouths and also serves a range of cocktails perfect for either an aperitivo or digestivo.

Downstairs, it offers a more informal bar setting with high tables and a counter to eat and drink at whilst the trattoria with restaurant tables is upstairs looking over the bar below.

Buon Appetito!

For more information click here.

Cahoots Pop-Up at London Cocktail Week

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We are very excited to announce that Cahoots will be creating a pop-up bar at London Cocktail Week this October.  The Scoundrels have teamed up with Bombay Sapphire to create a bespoke Cahoots vintage cocktail train at the Cocktail Village located in Old Spitalfields Market from the 3rd to the 9th of October.

As guests step aboard, and all tickets are checked, the journey from Cahoots in Soho to Laverstoke, the home of Bombay Sapphire’s gin distillery begins. Using flavours and ingredients from the allotments of London to the green fields of the home counties as inspiration, Cahoots at London Cocktail Week will be an immersive experience focused around the artistry of gin & tonic.

The menu will be inspired by the adventures of the Famous Five by Enid Blyton like you have never seen her before… Featuring cocktails such as The Captain heads to the seaside! The Captain solves a mystery! and The Captain meets a tropical stranger! Each cocktail served at the London Cocktail Village will come with a night watchman ticket, for guests to hop on the night tube to Cahoots in Soho for speedy entry and a complimentary night tube cocktail after 11pm any night of the week. 

Cocktails at the LCW village and Cahoots Soho will be priced at £5 with wristbands. Cahoots Soho will be serving cocktails with a slice of pie for £10

For more information and tickets please click here.

Sir Ranulph Fiennes speaks at Mr Fogg’s Explorer Series

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Mr Fogg’s Explorer Series has been running for two years and seen the likes of Bear Grylls, The Tempest Two, Bill Colegrave, Robert Swan OBE, Simon Reeve, The Turner Twins and many more give talks. Monday 19th September however was the pinacle. Mr Fogg personally invited Sir Ranulph Fiennes to speak at his residence and is grateful to Johnnie Walker for supporting this event.

Sir Ranulph also gave an interview to The Evening Standard when he was at Mr Fogg’s Residence on Monday for our Explorer Series. Click here to read it.

Mr Fogg’s Pop-Up at LAPADA

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Mr Fogg’s Pop-Up bar returned to the LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair, Berkeley Square again this September, following a successful collaboration in 2014 and 2015.

The pop-up bar is modeled on Mr Fogg’s Resicence with LAPADA dealer Charles Wallrock of Wick Antiques furnishing the pop-bar with artworks, objects and furniture that would have been collected during the period, as well as de Gournay wallpaper.

Along with a selection of classic cocktails, Mr Fogg’s will an extended menu throughout the day. Champagne Lanson, Bombay Sapphire, Whitstable Bay beer and Fentiman’s botanical soft drinks will be the tipples of choice for antique hunters

To see more photos click here and read about it in Tatler here.

Bunga Bunga Turns FIVE

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Thursday 9th September marked our 5th birthday at Bunga Bunga and the launch of our new club on the 1st and 2nd floor. Thanks to all who came, especially to Martini and Peroni for supporting the event.

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Cahoots 1st Birthday

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On Saturday 14th May the scoundrels of Cahoots ventured forth from their illicit subterranean Soho hideout to celebrate their 1st Birthday on the good ship HMS Belfast. It was a spiffing evening of high spirits, scoundrels and swing.

Upon arrival, the Captain of Cahoots greeted guests with delightful Veuve Clicquot champagne before heading up the apples and pears to the upper deck for a BBQ feast, complete with delightfully British cuisine circa 1946. The evening was then filled with classic cocktails made with Bombay Sapphire gin and Bacardi Carta Blanca rum, black market liquor and post war favourites served in hip flasks, milk bottles and old mugs. The wildest cats in town entertained guests all evening long, including performances by the Shirt Tail Stompers, the Roustabouts, Carradine’s Cockney Sing-a-Long and the Hotsie Totsie’s all the way from 1940s New York City.  

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Maggie’s Top Gun 30th Anniversary

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On Thursday 12th May Maggie’s members attended a private screening of Top Gun to mark the 30th anniversary of the iconic film coming out. Members drank special Bacardi cocktails both at the cinema and then at the after-party at Maggie’s. Everyone was given a Maggie’s + Bacardi branded jumpsuit and aviators of course! For more photos click here.