It’s that time of the year again and Grey Goose is launching its 2009 Character & Cocktails Bar for in aid of The Elton John AIDS Foundation.

Participating celebrities who have turned their hands to home bar design not to mention each concocting their own cocktails to match, include the multi-talented Roland Mouret, Lily Allen, Lily Cole, Theo Fennell, Patrick Cox and Christopher Bailey. 

Here’s an artist’s impression of Mouret’s Origami Bar which promises to be as much of a feat of  engineering as his super-flattering dresses but if you want to check out the real thing you’ll just have to beg, borrow or steal youselves tickets for the Grey Goose exhibition at The Hospital Club. 

We’re especially excited to see Christopher Bailey’s Stud Bar, which is, he tells us, his own interpretation of British punk – well, if it’s good enough for Mulberry then it’s certainly good enough for us.  Lily Cole is bound to bring some intellectual spin to the proceedings and as for Lily Allen, we reckon the famous party girl has propped up enough bars in her time to acquit herself admirably of the task in hand. 

The Grey Goose hosted exhibition and parties will showcase the celebrity bars at London’s Hospital Club on November 12 and 13 when the space will be transformed into a decadent hybrid of Las Vegas’ Old Flamingo Hotel and New York’s Studio 54 of back in the day.  This year, the event will open its doors to the public for the very first time – it was previously the preserve of invited celebrity guests. 

Ours is one of Mouret’s Japanese influenced green tea cocktails, created with a little help from mixology maestro, Tony Conigliaro. 

Roland Mouret Miracle

Glass: Small coupette
Method: Stir 25 times
Garnish: Folded paper napkin infused with Shiso essence
Ingredients:
40ml Grey Goose vodka (infused with green tea and mint)
25ml Shochu

Or actually, perhaps it’s Christopher Bailey and Peter Dorelli’s effort

Flaming Black Stud

Glass:  Chilled highball
Method:  Place ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake ice. Strain into glass.  Take a small piece of orange skin and flame ils over the surface of the drink.
Garnish with a single floating blackberry
Ingredients:�
50ml Grey Goose Original
25ml blackberry puree
10ml cognac-based orange liqueur
10ml freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 teaspoon balsamic sugar syrup (half sugar syrup, half aged
balsamic vinegar)

Oh dear we really can’t decide.  Best have all of them.  It’s in a good cause. 

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