Champagne

• The Red Lion & Sun is selling Pol Roger in tankards, just like Churchill used to drink it

  

  Champagne flutes and saucers are so yesterday. As of this week, one of North London's loveliest pubs is serving a very special Champagne in tankards instead.

  As The Red Lion and Sun's publican Heath Ball explains, the whole thing came about after one of his friends shared an article about a pub in Adelaide, Australia, that serves Krug by the schooner and sells the most Krug in the country.

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• Bar du Champagne takes over from Avobar in Covent Garden

  

  Should we read something into the fact that Covent Garden visitors' tastes are leaning away from smashed avos and more towards Champagne? That's one conclusion to be drawn from the closure of Avobar which has been replaced by Bar du Champagne from the same owner (although Avobar is apparently moving to a central London location next year). 

  This new bistro and bar is taking up two floors of the

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• Veuve Clicquot are bringing back their Sunny Side Up Cafe, this time to Piccadilly Circus

  

  Last year, Champagne house Veuve Clicquot caused quite the stir with their breakfast cafe pop-up in Soho. Now the team behind that are back with a new offering, this time in Piccadilly. The 2023 iteration of the Sunny Side Up Café will be part of their

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• The Searcys Champagne bar at St Pancras is getting a big overhaul

  

  5/10/22 - updated with new photos

  It's been a prime fixture of St Pancras for an age and now the Searcys Champagne Bar at King's Cross has gotten a fancy new makeover. 

  It's been redesigned with a completely new look (although the basic layout remains similar) with plush booths, marble-topped tables and a new seafood bar. And yes, they do still have their

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• Test Driving the Moët & Chandon Champagne Bar at Harrods - fizz and fashion under the same roof

  

  The largest Moët & Chandon Champagne bar in Europe has just opened at Harrods. We pulled up a stool at the bar to check it out. 

• The Sunny Side Up cafe is a Veuve Clicquot breakfast cafe in Soho

   

  Veueve Clicquot is coming to Soho with The Sunny Side Cafe, a pop-up that's a little different from their standard fare. Yes, there's Champagne (of course) but this is also a pop-up that's their own take on a classic greasy spoon cafe. As you can imagine from the Champagne house, it's going to be very different from the greasy spoons that you'll have encountered

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• The London popup Champagne bar where a glass is just £2.33

  

  Popping up briefly in St Christopher's Place this week is a Champagne bar with a difference. The signage out front doesn't give the game away but Veuve is actually a popup from Aldi, selling the supermarket's own-brand - and award winning - Veuve Monsigny Champagne.

  Billed as "the UK’s cheapest Champagne bar in one of the UK’s most expensive postcodes", Veuve will be open until Sunday to give weary Christmas shoppers

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• Piper-Heidsieck are throwing a prohibition party at Bentley's

  

  If you've forgotten what it's like to go 'Out Out' and worry that you've lost some of your key social skills, then the folks at Champagne house Piper-Heidsieck have come up with a fun experience to ease you back into the fray.

  For three nights in August they'll be running an immersive prohibition experience in the Swallow Street Rooms at Bentley’s Oyster Bar. We popped in last night to try it out and can

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• Bubbleshop by Sandia Chang will sell grower Champagnes and Bubbledogs kits

  

  Bubbledogs and Kitchen Table might be closed for dining in for the moment (although Bubbledogs is on Deliveroo) but there's some good news for Bubbledogs fans. Sandia Chang is launching Bubbleshop which will be the place to go to buy the very best grower Champagnes - alongside a

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• Selfridges now have a Veuve Clicquot Le Tram bar serving up champagne and cocktails

  

  First, we had Claridge's launching their Loubi Express cocktail bar with just eight seats. Now Selfridges have unveiled their Veuve Clicquot Le Tram bar in time for the festive season.

  The oh-so-Instagrammable bar has just 10 seats and will serve up Veuve Clicquot champagne and cocktails

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• Harrods unveil their summer Perrier-Jouet Champagne Terrace

  

  There's no surer sign that summer's on its way than when terraces, all across town, begin to be unveiled in their new plumage.

  Top of your to-try list has to be the new Perrier-Jouet terrace at Harrods which launched to a celeb crowd last week. The fourth floor terrace (we honestly didn't even know it was there) is apparently a sunny spot facing due south west - perfect to sit and sip Champagne in. And when the weather properly bucks up there's an

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• Burger and Lobster's Taittinger brunch features a Champagne Train running along the bar

  

  Now we know there are plenty of fun police out there who hate the idea of gimmicks. But we are not among them and, frankly, this latest conceit at Burger & Lobster sounds like an absolute hoot.

  The Soho branch of the restaurant group has teamed up with Taittinger to launch the Champagne Train - where flutes of champagne are served by a train rolling down a 9m model railway track on the bar itself.

  It's their version of the bottomless brunch. So

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• Bubbledogs gets a revamp with a bigger Champagne focus and new hotdogs

  

  Changes are on the way for Bubbledogs, the hot dog and Champagne bar in Fitzrovia by Sandia Chang (which also acts as a way into the 2-Michelin-starred Kitchen Table at the back). They're closing for a revamp and opening again with much more of a focus as a Champagne bar.

  And this change also means a much bigger focus on Grower Champagnes (they're the smaller producers in the Champagne region).

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• Beef and Champagne - we test drive Charles Heidsieck's new summer pairing at Great Fosters

  Charles Heidseick champagne has joined forces with Surrey hotel Great Fosters for the perfect summer dish paired with their Champagne.

• The St Pancras Brasserie and Champagne Bar is getting its own Champagne school

  

  Just in time for this year's celebrations of the 150 year anniversary of St Pancras Station, the station's St Pancras Brasserie and Champagne Bar by Searcys is getting a fresh new look. Just over a decade after it opened, the new design means it'll now have a Kitchen Bar which will be just the ticket for meetings during the day or evening chef demos using the space's open kitchen.

  One key element of the redesign has been the reworking of the old private dining

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