It was a close escape. About 300 women and two men packed into the foyer of the George last Sunday afternoon.
I was saved from seeing Sex in the City and instead spent a few hours in the Melbourne Wine Room. Apparently, the change in clientelle there started the previous Thursday. First one Cosmopolitan, then many many more were ordered.
The crowd was different to usual, well-groomed women mainly toasting each other with sauvignon blanc or Champagne pior to the next sitting of the film. None of the emasculated men had temerity to drink beer although I noticed a couple of blokes managed to slip-in a pinot.
Then it was to Baroq House on Thursday, not to have Jägermeister poured down my throat by a topless dwarf in a top hat, sadly (Yes, he also did gigs at Baroq). But for a much classier cocktail class courtesy of Belvedere Vodka and mixologist Grant Collins from Bar Solutions.
We learnt, we drank and nibbled. How we laughed. And then my team (not named by me) “Two Blonds and a Bloke” came second in the mixology competition. We also made a decent martini and a Moscow mule so I did escape with my masculinity intact, almost. And I’m still avoiding Sex and the City.
Luxury Cosmopolitan Escape
450 mls Belvedere Cytrus (or plain vodka)
100 mls Grand Marnier (or Cointreau)
600 ml Cranberry Juice
Dash of lemon juice
1. Chill a giant martini glasswith ice
2. Fill the bucket with ice. Add the vodka, cointreau (on this occasion) and cranberry juice.
3. Remove ice from cocktail glass. Strain mix into cocktail glass.
4. Top with a dash of lemon. Add a flamed orange zest.
5. There’s enough vodka in this to knock you out. Drink irresponsibly and you will be refused entry to Sex and the City.
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Even though I was a bit past their age demographic, I loved Sex and the City, the TV show. It reminded me of my own rather wild youth (although I wasn’t quite as much of a babe as those four, I did have fun!) But I found the movie pretty disappointing. Where the TV show was witty and charming, the movie was trite and predictable, at least to me. I seem to be in the minority on this opinion (among women at least.)
The movie was fun, but I think I could have given it a miss quite happily if I’d had a jugful of that cocktail of yours to occupy myself…
Kalyn, glad I still haven’t been to Sex and the City yet although there is still a lot of pressure at home. Apparently I like chick flicks accoding to Jackie. Perhaps.
Laura, ajug of that and you’d miss everything.