Cocktails have been coming in pairs (or triplets?) recently, and we're deep into it. If you, like us, haven't been able to resist the rise of the silver-tray-served Martinis that have been proliferating about town from the end of last year, well, chances are you are in for a treat with this cocktail hour-ready curated edit of 'double' coasters for the It bon vivant. That's right: ICYMI, your drinks of choice are now more often than not served up in, or as, a flight, as it happens with Martinis themselves at moody, underground London cocktail bar No Regret.
But the red velvet-clad Burlington Arcade hotspot isn't alone in leading the trend: at East London's viral, self-professed bistro of the future, Noisy Oyster, too, miniature cocktails tinted in different shades are paraded to the table in series of threes. Elsewhere, instead, beverages are placed atop old-style fabric coasters, largely in crisp linen, for a retro-fueled, nonchalant touch, or monolithic charcoal or marble slabs.
