
From 1806 to 1980 until 2011 @ BAR 366
1806
Eighteen hundred and six was the year that the word cocktail was first used in print, and on the 13th of May that year, in the Balance and Columbia Repository,
the word was defined for the first time.
However the art of mixing drinks extends much further back than this, there are references in Shakespeare's Hamlet of a Sack Posset, a mixture of egg, cream, dark ale, sugar and spices; with some sixteenth century toffs going so far as to request the inclusion of ambergris or musk. These drinks were the work of master mixologists and some very experimental drinkers.....
1980
According to the father of Molecular Gastronomy, Hervé This, who created the discipline in the 1980s,
"Molecular Mixology is the practical application of the theoretical findings of Molecular Gastronomy to the bar environment."
This was kicked off in October 2005, with the world’s first "Molecular Mixology Master Class" at the Ritz Hotel in Paris, where eight of the world's best bartenders came together to learn from
the father himself, Hervé This.
Committed to innovation and development, Bar 366 hopes to inspire and engage customers and bartenders in this movement around London and widening the reach of this emerging trend.
Bar 366 is about acknowledging all those bartenders and alchemists who have over the centuries gifted us with sumptuous libations that affirm and promote a youthful exuberance with life. Drink, enjoy and be merry!