When I was asked if I would
host a cocktail party in my own house with Social and Cocktail, I didn't need to think twice! I love a good cocktail and I love to host parties...
Basically, Social and Cocktail will provide the cocktail bartender, a mobile bar, cocktail ingredients, glassware, ice etc and will make amazing cocktails in your home for you and your guests.
This is the bar!!!
After agreeing on a date, I was then tasked with selecting 5 cocktails from their
menu, which they've helpfully categorised into
Dessert,
Vodka,
Rum,
Classics and
Non-Alcoholic.
I picked:
- Raspberry Mojito - Raspberry liqueur, white rum, lime juice, soda water, mint, sugar & raspberries
- Passionfruit Daiquiri - Rum, Passoa, Lime juice & sugar syrup
- Cosmopolitan - citrus vodka, Triple Sec, cranberry juice, lemon and sugar syrup
- Toblerone Martini
- Caipirinha - originated in Brazil where they are regarded as the national cocktail and contains Cachaca, sugar & lime
On the night, Evan & Damien arrived with Marc the photographer about an hour before the guests were due to set up the bar.
It was a bit like Transformers... and this is what the box became:
I had decided to use a scoring system for each cocktail for a bit of fun... so we each rated the cocktails in four different categories,
Appearance,
Smell,
Initial Taste and
Overall Impression, giving them a score out of 5.
Evan doing his thing behind the bar!
The Toblerone Martini... really creamy and was so nice! (spot the tache on my son's baby photo in the background!!)
Enjoying my passion fruit dacquiri
Katie had a shot and made her own cocktail...
Half way through we took a break as I had made a big pot of chilli which was warm in the slow cooker and I served with nachos, guacamole, sour cream and salsa. Just as well we all ate, as the evening wore in it proceeded to get messy! By the end of the night quite a few of us were playing Dance Central on the XBox!! Great fun.
So for the scoring...
Katie's comments were the funniest, the Toblerone Martini appealed to her oestrogen and for overall impression for the raspberry mojito, "marry me" was in her notes!!!
Here are the cocktails in order of preference with their total score *drum roll please*
- Passionfruit Daiquiri - 84%
- Raspberry Mojito - 81%
- Caipirinha - 77%
- Cosmopolitan - 77%
- Toblerone Martini - 65%
The Toblerone Martini score surprises me as I really enjoyed it, but I guess it's not to everyone's taste.
Our only real suggestion would be that the order the drinks are served could have been given a bit more thought as we started with the creamy dessert cocktail, whereas it might have been nicer to put this in the middle of the other more alcoholic ones to mix things up a bit.
But all in all we were thoroughly impressed.
The cocktails were all lovely - as you can see from the scores above - and everyone was uber impressed with the service.
I would definitely consider hiring a bar in the future. For £25 per person for 5 cocktails, you can't really go wrong. It's less that what you'd pay if you were in a bar in town and yet you don't even need to leave your house! Fantastic given
the freezing weather and the wait that you can sometimes have in a cold taxi queue! Evan even cleared up after himself and at the end, the glasses, bar etc was all packed up and away it went. Very professional and I'm seriously really impressed. Great value for money I reckon.
The Social and Cocktail bartenders are all professionally trained and they focus on three key aims - service, mixology and entertainment. Evan was brilliant and we were all really impressed! He delivered on all three :-)
We were suffering the next day... so a cooked breakfast was in order!!
We enjoyed a cocktail party at home free of charge in exchange for this review. Opinions, as always, are my own and are honest.
