Inflight Magazine of Brussels Airlines

Night life

The Pigalle Club (215-217 Piccadilly) is inspired by the dinner clubs of 1940s Hollywood, and has its own 26-piece band with a distinctly vintage feel. The club has played host to acts like burlesque queen Immodesty Blaize, and jazz singers such as Paloma Faith and Lazenby. The menu offers timeless European dishes such as snails in garlic and parsley butter, and confit of duck legs, and even the waitresses are dressed in 1940s uniforms. Expect to pay around €66-€90 per head, depending on who is performing.

Meanwhile in Rome, Supperclub (Via de’Nari 14) is housed in a restored mansion, steeped in a Dolce Vita kind of ambience. Walking into the sumptuously draped club is like finding yourself on

the set of a Fellini film, as Rome’s glitterati recline on white beds, supping smoky martinis. Diners can enjoy classic food with a contemporary twist – think steak tartare with artichokes or passion fruit soufflé. Expect to pay around €65 per head for dinner with drinks

Pumpin’ on the Stereo
Tucked away on a side street in Copenhagen, Stereo Bar (Linnesgade 16 A Norreport STog; tel.  ) is easy to miss, but is definitely worth a look if you’re the nostalgic sort. Understated 70s décor, lava lamps and old fashioned soul music add to the retro atmosphere. It’s a popular pre-club bar, but after a couple of the Stereo’s famous vodka cocktails you may decide to stay put…

Cocktail corner
Time Line

1900 The Daiquiri The classic daiquiri – rum, lime juice and sugar – takes its name from the iron mines of Daiquiri near Santiago in Cuba. It first appeared around the turn of the century, but nobody’s sure whether it was named by the American engineers that worked there, or the US troops that arrived in 1898. Tretter’s Bar (V Kolkovni 3, Prague) serves a delectable strawberry daiquiri.

1920s
Bloody Mary Invented in the 1920s by a barman at Harry’s New York Bar (5 Rue Daunou 2nd Mº Opéra) in Paris, the Bloody Mary – a bracing blend of vodka, tomato juice, Tabasco, Worcestershire sauce and lemon – was originally drunk by American expats who later brought the drink home with them. You can still try it at its Parisian birthplace.

1941
The Moscow Mule In 1941 spirits salesman John G. Martin met proprietor Jack Morgan in an LA bar. Together the pair invented the Moscow Mule by mixing Morgan’s ginger beer with Smirnoff Vodka and lime, reviving Morgan’s ailing ginger beer franchise and doubling Smirnoff’s sales in the process. Try one at Propaganda (Bolshoi Zlatoustinskii Pereulok
15) in Moscow.

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