Drinks
21.02.12 - New Canteen drinks menu
Raise your glass, say ‘cheers’ and get your timing completely wrong as you down your beverage an embarassingly long time before everyone else, making you look like an impatient drunk.
Because our new drinks menu arrives on the 29th of February.
The switched on among you will realise that the 29th is a leap day, the 366th day in the year, when normally there are 365.
And if another day isn’t a reason to have a drink, we don’t know what is. Just think of all that extra sleeping, eating and watching Masterchef you can do.
Just as well you’ll have a new wine list stocked with good, great and brilliant reds and whites, not to mention fine roses and sparkling wines, as well, to help you get through it. Cheers.
17.11.11 - Bullace and wild cherry gin nearly in
Have you heard? We’re making our own sloe gin. Except we’re not using sloes; we’re using perfectly ripe bullace and wild cherry plums picked in King Stag, Dorset.
We’ve already covered these rare wild hedge fruit in gin and sugar (not too much – ours won’t be sickly sweet, thanks to a recipe belonging to Canteen co-founder, Patrick Malone’s mum) and we’re leaving them for as long as we can resist.
We turn the jars every day and very soon we hope to be straining the grog, creating our very own Canteen gin to serve in our branches, as well as some delicious, alcoholic jam. We’ll also be leaving some grog alone to mature and serve next year. The first batch should be ready sometime in December. We’ll let you know as soon as it is.
04.07.10 - Wine tasting at Baker Street: Cellar Club
Wine. We love it.
And, luckily for us, we get to spend hours choosing our favourites from around the world.
From Chapel Down in Kent to Tiddy Widdy Well in McLaren Vale, Australia – and lots of places in between.
But enough about us. How about you?
Because if you’d like to learn the basics, top up your knowledge or maybe just have a bit of fun, then sign up to one of the Cellar Club events we’re holding at your Baker Street Branch.
16 September – Beginner’s guide to wine (£10): Spend an evening with our experts and get a great introduction to the various grapes and wines, without having to go on an expensive course.
14 October – Meet the grower (£10): Meet the passionate people behind the wine. Get closer to what happens during the journey from grape to glass. And experience for yourself different wines and vintages.
18 November – Winemaker’s dinner (£45): Dinner + wine + the thinking behind the dinner + wine combo = insight into the selection process.
20 January – Wine quiz (£10): Time to put everything you’ve learnt to the taste test, post New Year detox, natch.
There are only 30 places for each event so book now by emailing cellarclub@canteen.co.uk
27.06.10 - Canary Wharf beats Wimbledon
It’s £2.50 for 10 strawberries and cream at Wimbledon this year so raise a glass of Nyetimber British sparkling wine to our staff at our Canary Wharf branch.
They’re offering FREE, yes FREE, strawberries and cream Eton mess with every purchase of this delicious West Sussex tipple during the tournament.
If you’re lucky, you’ll be able to watch the tennis on the big screen in the square outside – from your seat.
With grunters like Sharapova playing, we’re not sure how you’re supposed to get any work done with that, ahem, racquet, going on.
So why not call a time out and enjoy a refreshing drink and free pud on us?
Find out more about Canary Wharf summer screeningshere.
28.04.10 - Mm, British beer
Great British food needs a Great British brewer.
And in Meantime London, we’ve certainly met our match.
You just know you’re going to have to try a brew when its maker says its sole concern is to:
‘put before the consumer the most exciting flavours to be found in beer that they are able to create with the wit and technology at their disposal’.
We’ll drink to that.
Throughout 2010, Meantime offers a range of limited editions.
Right now it’s ‘Famous Belgian’, a 6.5% blonde abbey style ale.
Join us for one*?
*Our beer list also features 20 of the UK’s finest bottled beers, stouts, ales, ciders and perrys. Cheers.
02.06.09 - Seasonal British summer drinks
The Canteen drinks list follows the food philosophy, inspired by British seasonal ingredients, simplicity of execution, great taste and flavours and is also keenly
priced.
The classic G&T will be given a twist with delicate seasonal fruits infusions, for June and July customers can try an apricot G&T and a plum G&T in August and September.
Canteen Bellinis, created using homemade fruit puree combinations, will include orange & strawberry and strawberry and mint.
The Canteen beer list features 20 of the UK’s finest bottled beers, stouts, ales, ciders and perry’s, offering selected beers on tap along with a selection of hand-pumped seasonal ales and ciders.
Much of the list comes from Meantime Brewery, a small yet visionary microbrewery based in Greenwich: their Grand Cru Wheat and organic Pilsner stand-out among our perennial favourites.
It matters that the beers are definitely food beers.
Rich dark Entire Stout with its strong roasted malt flavour goes well with seafood.
01.10.08 - Great British Bar
Canteen launches its exciting new drinks list that celebrates British ingredients and flavours such as rhubarb, apple, pear, cider brandy, elderflower, lavender, rose and mint.
Highlights include seasonal purees for prosecco Bellini’s which pair evocative flavours such as apple with lavender or rhubarb and the Canteen G&T is given a whole new dimension by infusing gin with delicious seasonal fruits to create an exceptional flavour; gin flavours include bitter lemon, raspberry and rhubarb.
Canteen’s new beer list features 20 of the UK’s finest bottled beers, stouts, ales, ciders and perry’s, offering selected beers on tap along with a selection of hand-pumped seasonal ales and ciders sourced from microbreweries.