Bartenders

Durham Atkinson

Type

Bartenders

WHERE ARE YOU FROM?

Sydney, Australia

WHERE DO YOU/HAVE YOU WORKED?

In London, Milk & Honey, Happiness Forgets, Hawksmoor, High Water (coming soon) & The Hops & Glory

FAVORITE BARS?

The Southampton Arms, Hawksmoor Spitalfields, Hix Soho

FAVOURITE DRINK?

Silver Gin Fizz, or a Rochefort 10 Trappist beer.

Bad ass barman/rock n roll moment?

I don't know if its suitable for this publication.

Ever done it on a bar?

Surprisingly no.

What's next for you?

I've recently teamed up with Bobby Hiddleston from Milk & Honey and The Dead Rabbit. We're opening our first cocktail bar in Dalston called High Water. We're currently open, getting ready to refurb and have a demolition party.

Best/worst chat up lines you've heard at a bar?

A girl once asked if she could wear my shirt in bed, she did.

Tell us a secret or something we don't know?

3 drinks that should never been created - a Dry Manhattan, Pegu Club, The Bloodhound. They're all ridiculous, should die and never be seen on a menu ever. Your palate is a joke if you like any of these.

If you were to make a barchick cocktail, what would you put in it?

2 beers, 2 shots of rittenhouse rye and I'd pull up a stool for a chat.

How do you like your Martini?

Delmonico, 2:1 gin, martini dry, dash of orange bitters and the tiniest hint of 1:1 sugar syrup.

What did you want to be as a kid?

An Astronaut, I still do, One day I'd like to do the Virgin galactic tour.