Downton Abbey Cocktail Party
Watch the Season 3 premiere of Downton Abbey live on KQED at Elixir, one of San Francisco’s most historic bars while sipping period cocktails from 1920s London.
Celebrate the return of the Grantham clan as the English country estate enters the 1920s and a new era post-WWI.
1920s Classic London Cocktail Party
Elixir mixologists will craft old time mixed drinks from the legendary Savoy Cocktail Book from 1930 which features 750 cocktails made famous in London during the 1920s. Special guest bartender, Erik Ellestad, who is one of the few to make every single cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail book, will make an appearance making a few Savoy drinks with Plymouth Gin during the show.
Downton Abbey Season 3 Premiere & 1920s Cocktail Party
Sunday, January 6, 2013 (8p cocktails, 9p screening)
Elixir, 3200 16th St, SF
FREE with RSVP>> Funcheap Insider Deal: Get $2 off 1920s period cocktails
About the Savoy Cocktail Book (1930)
Synonymous with style, elegance and sophistication, the Savoy is unsurprisingly also the birthplace of some of the most famous cocktails in the world.
During the 1920s and ’30s, prohibition-dodging Americans visiting London for tea-dances and “mixed drinks” (cocktails), made the bar at the Savoy their home. Here they were entertained by legendary American barman Harry Craddock, inventor of the White Lady and populariser of the Dry Martini.
Originally published in 1930, the Savoy Cocktail Book features 750 of Harry’s most popular recipes. It is a fascinating record of the cocktails that set London alight at the time – and which are just as popular today.
