The Bar With No Name

The Bar With No Name

69 Colebrooke Row

Open since June 2009 an award winning cocktail bar located on a backstreet of Islington.

Identifiable by an outdoor lantern, it is a unique cocktail bar housed in one intimate room.

The cocktail menu uses esoteric ingredients that have been developed in Drink Factory - the research and development laboratory located near to Broadway Market.

http://www.69colebrookerow.com

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The Bartender With a Lab Coat - The New York Times

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Mr. Conigliaro does, in fact, occupy his own world around the corner from 69 Colebrooke: the Drink Factory, a liquid laboratory he started in 2005 that is now in a building that once housed Pink Floyd’s recording studio.

There is a centrifuge; a rotavapor, for distilling; an induction heater; a cold smoker; a dehydrator; and a thermomix, the ultimate blender, among other pieces of equipment, all of which Mr. Conigliaro uses to draw moisture, flavors, aromas, fibers and even smoky notes out of ingredients.

“I am an artist and a romantic, but not a scientist,” said Mr. Conigliaro, who went to art school and fell into the drinks trade because he was trying to finance his studio work by bartending on the side.

With the Drink Factory, Mr. Conigliaro moved his work to a higher level, leveraging himself in the drinks world with the likes of the celebrated molecular chefs Ferran Adrià of El Bulli and Heston Blumenthal of the Fat Duck (both good friends).

Harold McGee, himself a groundbreaking cook, the author of the 1984 book “On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen,” and one of the first writers to look at the chemistry of cooking, spent a week in 2012 at the Drink Factory, at Mr. Conigliaro’s invitation.

69 Colebrooke Row | Headed By Cocktail Genius Tony Conigliaro

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69 Colebrooke Row | Islington Bar The intimate cocktail bar found at 69 Colebrooke Row is known as “The Bar With No Name”.

The problem with this being that people need to refer to it as something, so its name has actually now become, “The Bar With No Name”.

Yes Cocktail genius Tony Conigliaro is the mastermind behind the bar’s pioneering drinks menu.

69 Colebrooke Row | 69 Colebrooke Row, London N1 8AA Like cocktails?

Check out our guide to the best London cocktail bars.

The Bar With No Name, Islington | Culture Whisper

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The Bar With No Name, Islington The Bar With No Name, Islington 69 Colebrooke Row, Islington is a veritable treat for cocktail connoisseurs.

We suggest getting a seat at the bar, for these mixologists are a joy to watch: each cocktail is created with as much care and attention as its taste suggests.

The Manhattan Steel Corp was our favourite with almondy maraschino liqueur, dry essence (for the perfect mouthfeel) and a delightfully fuchsia cherry.

There is something quite magical about this place.

The perfect pre or post dinner stop off, it’s bound to turn you out onto the street feeling like you’ve discovered one of London’s hidden treasures.

69 Colebrooke Row Bar Angel London Reviews | DesignMyNight

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I had to try numerous times to get in to this elusive bar, finally nabbing an early spot thinking it would still be busy.

We were the only ones (bar one of the waitresses friends getting comped drinks) in the whole venue.

The service was good, the drinks were really nothing special - definitely not worth £12.50 a pop.

I would try Colebrooke Row again, later in the day, but i'd be afraid the crowds would prevent the great service.

Fay Maschler reviews Untitled: Raising the bar for tapas | London ...

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Untitled on the main drag in Dalston — also part of what could be called Tony Conigliaro’s bashful group that includes two Bar Termini — should stop being such a shrinking violet not just because of its witty complex cocktails and cool for school (of Andy Warhol) décor, but the food overseen by chef Rob Roy Cameron.

Joe is excited to see that only one beer and one cider are on offer and waxes lyrical — “that cider is exquisite…not something I’ve said about cider before” — after trying Oliver’s Pomona from Herefordshire.

Bulldog sauce — the Japanese riposte to our HP — coating small edamame pods threaded onto a skewer for grilling introduces a determinedly savoury note also carried by clouds of dark gnarled seaweed in tempura batter served with ponzu dipping sauce.

Cured duck with liquorice teriyaki sauce toys with the taste buds in a charming persuasive way but the two masterpiece assemblies are lamb brioche and aubergine with miso and hazelnuts.

Here is where The Highland Rogue (Rob Roy) has taken on the Japanese and conquered them.

Top 10 classic cocktail bars in London | Travel | The Guardian

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To the uninitiated it might seem that London has suddenly embraced cocktails, yet the city has always been a quiet, constant bastion of the cocktail, and the birthplace of numerous classics: from the white lady, the collins and the hanky panky to modern staples such as the espresso martini, breakfast martini, and the bramble.

Classics in London were once rare outside hotel bars, and though more and more are showing up in casual surroundings, hotels still dominate the cocktail scene.

• Cocktails from £16.50, 1C Portland Place W1, 020-7636 1000, london.langhamhotels.co.uk No London bar has undergone such a radical – and to the untrained eye, invisible – transformation in living memory as the Rivoli.

• Cocktails £19, 150 Piccadilly W1, 020-7493 8181, theritzlondon.com At this new New Orleans-inspired bar, the top-selling cocktails are the hurricane, the sazerac and – a personal favourite – the grasshopper, which was created a stone's throw from the Mississippi river at Tujague's by the owner Philibert Guichet around 1919.

com Created by London's mad cocktail scientist Tony Conigliaro, 69 Colebrooke Row is a diminutive corner bar on an Islington side street near Angel tube station.

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