{"id":614,"date":"2016-06-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prixvillegiatu.wpengine.com\/a-drink-for-two\/"},"modified":"2022-09-16T14:26:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:26:23","slug":"a-drink-for-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prix-villegiature.com\/en\/a-drink-for-two\/","title":{"rendered":"A Drink for Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sandra Iskander<\/p>\n<p>Legend has it that the White Lady cocktail was named in The Savoy\u2019s American Bar by Harry Craddock after seeing F. Scott Fitzgerald\u2019s wife Zelda. The bartender quickly made her a drink and when she asked him what it was called he quickly replied White Lady, inspired by her, by her pale skin and her blonde hair. Now the famous bar has created an elaborate cocktail, this time by head bartender Erik Lorincz, inspired by another famous name, Frank Sinatra.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/prixvillegiatu.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/VillegiatureMag_2016-6-7_American_Bar_London_Menu_Pickering_Place-W2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1635 lazy\" alt=\"VillegiatureMag_2016-6-7_American_Bar_London_Menu_Pickering_Place W2\" data-src=\"https:\/\/prixvillegiatu.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/VillegiatureMag_2016-6-7_American_Bar_London_Menu_Pickering_Place-W2.jpg\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1124\" \/><\/a>\n<p>The story goes that Frank Sinatra, a regular at the bar, used to always order Jack Daniel\u2019s on the rocks while others recall that he only drank Dry Martinis. With such conflicting memories the Pickering Place cocktail was born.<\/p>\n<p>Aptly named after London\u2019s last known site for a duel, the cocktail for two serves The Elegant, a gin-based drink, and The Bold, a Jack Daniel\u2019s drink. Served together with an iPad screening a silent movie starring the bar\u2019s team including the bar manager, Declan McGurk, Pickering Place is undoubtedly one of the most original cocktail concepts.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/prixvillegiatu.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/VillegiatureMag_2016-6-7_American_Bar_Londo_Menu_Pickering_Place-Savoy_Lifestyle1_w3.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1634 lazy\" alt=\"VillegiatureMag_2016-6-7_American_Bar_Londo_Menu_Pickering_Place Savoy_Lifestyle1_w3\" data-src=\"https:\/\/prixvillegiatu.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/VillegiatureMag_2016-6-7_American_Bar_Londo_Menu_Pickering_Place-Savoy_Lifestyle1_w3.jpg\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1457\" \/><\/a>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairmont.com\/savoy-london\/\">THE SAVOY\u00a0<\/a><br \/>\nStrand, London WC2R 0EU, United Kingdom<br \/>\n<em id=\"__mceDel\">Tel.: +44 20 7836 4343<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"__mceDel\"><em id=\"__mceDel\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairmont.com\/savoy-london\/\">www.fairmont.com\/savoy-london\/<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/prixvillegiatu.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Logos_sponsors16_md-1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2381 lazy\" alt=\"Logos_sponsors16_md\" data-src=\"https:\/\/prixvillegiatu.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Logos_sponsors16_md-1.jpg\" width=\"1392\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Savoy answers the big question, did Sinatra drink Dry Martinis or Jack Daniel\u2019s on the rocks ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[195,196,24,140,27,31,94,15,28,13,197,144,115,198],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - 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