SPIRITS: Red Carpet Cocktails

AS THE brain behind the drinks carte for the Theatre Awards, our new drinks columnist and gastro-consultant to the stars, Douglas Blyde, was charged with authoring a good-looking playlist for the palate. A catwalk of cocktails calculated to en-verve the mood. With starry events, libations need to be as considered as the lighting, music and company. Here, they range from at first, clear and crisp, to cosseting then ultimately reinvigorating as the evening wares on, with non-distracting, chilled glassware kept classic in design and easily cradled, and garnishes fragrant and unobtrusively minimalist.

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