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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 pops up at London Cocktail Week with Bombay Sapphire

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From Monday 3rd October to Sunday 9th October Cahoots appeared down the Central Line at Old Spitalfields Market with Bombay Sapphire gin. Cahoots created a bespoke Cahoots vintage cocktail train at the London Cocktail Week Village with their scoundrels on hand to keep guests well hydrated.

The menu was inspired by the adventures of the Famous Five by Enid Blyton, featuring cocktails such as The Captain heads to the seaside! Made with Bombay Sapphire, Bombay Bathwater Brew, Blue Curacao, lemon topped with Fentiman’s tonic; The Captain solves a mystery! Using star of Bombay Sapphire, Amer picon, Kamm & Sons and Martini Fiero and The Captain meets a tropical stranger! Bombay Sapphire, Limoncello, Grains of Paradise, Pomegranate, pineapple and lemon.

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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Inception Group to unveil new club at Bunga Bunga

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To celebrate five years of sheer madness, Bunga Bunga will be launching, Club Bunga, a pastiche of Italy. Club Bunga will be located on the top floor, taking over the space previously occupied by Cocobananas.

Inspired by the glamour of old school Italy, Club Bunga will take over the top two floors of Bunga Bunga and will take guests on a journey through Italy, featuring Statue of David drinking vessels, large Roman statues and inscribed wall murals. Club Bunga will be bringing the iconic Italian stripes, that made newspaper headlines earlier this summer,on the facade of the building, inside. The famous stripes will be painted on all of the walls and will live on in infamy at Club Bunga.

Have a further read here.

Mr Fogg’s Gin Parlour Unveils New ‘Gin Encyclopedia’ Menu

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Mr Fogg’s Gin Parlour has replaced Aunt Gertrude’s Gin Parlour above Mr Fogg’s Tavern. Although separate from the Tavern downstairs, the Phileas Fogg theme continues in the new parlour with it mirroring Victorian Gin Palaces.

In offering 27 tonics and botanicals, the collection allows for more than nine million possible Gin and Tonic combinations, and is intended to be “one of the most discerning gin menus to date”. The encyclopedia is separated into 10 individual categories, including London Dry, Old Tom, Light and Crisp, American, Floral and Aromatic, Fruity, Genever, Barrel Aged, Vintage and Gin Liqueurs.

The Gin Parlour also offers an eclectic cocktail menu. It’s called A Tale Of Tails, for those after something a little more … histrionic. The menu is influenced by period theatre, and the cocktails take their drinkers on marvelous adventures through eras of opulence in the Arts.

For more information or to make a booking please visit: https://mr-foggs.com/gin-parlour/