Though he encountered his share of racism--at one Friar event the chancellor's wife assumed he was a waiter and ordered him to fetch her a gin and tonic--he also had his share of opportunities.
After a fireside gin and tonic and a dinner of dal bhat, or lentil soup and rice.
He guides if you request his services--and you should, because he is an encyclopedia of animal behavior, provokes intellectual and mischievous dinner conversations, and fixes a fine gin and tonic.
If, like me, you are not categorically keen on Southeast Asian beach resorts, it is probably because you have been to Thailand's Phuket or Krabi, where you sat on heel-hammered sands drinking a warm gin and tonic from a literal bucket, wishing you'd discovered the place before the invention of fire-spinning, Katy Perry and laser shows.
Well, that is until you retire at the end of the day to one of the reserves luxury tented lodges for a sunset gin and tonic.
Soft-shell crab with a hazelnut salad, fried oysters with a green-chile-buttermilk dressing, a gin-and-tonic salmon with a subtle juniper aroma: these were creative combinations not often seen on New York menus.
Standing on Fermor's terrace, with its fragments of classical sculpture and its vertiginous view of a turquoise cove of stones, I felt as if the inhabitants of 40 years ago had momentarily gone inside for a siesta and would soon be out for a dusk-lit gin and tonic.
But Akunin, speaking over a gin-and-tonic in a London hotel bar, was perhaps about to disappoint some of his readers.
We were eating lunch in the central tent, washing down slices of tasty wood-fired pizza with glasses of gin and tonic, when a massive, six-ton bull elephant decided to crash our party.
Spanish tapas restaurant Coqueta is offering the Oracle Cocktail (209 Gin, house-made anise tonic, elderflower, lemon, hibiscus and a splash of San Francisco fog) and a Podium Paella, made with squid ink and scallops.
La Barra Bar serves cocktails such as Lady Boca (gin and tonic infused with Andean herbal tea) and traditional match foods like pizza de cancha (a pizza with tomato sauce and oregano) and choripan (an Argentine sausage sandwich).
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