By Bibendumtimes
Paul Mant & Joe Stokoe
Do you think you can Fake It as a smooth talking, cocktail shaking bartender; or a smart, sophisticated and knowledgeable sommelier?
In 2009, Imbibe Magazine launched the inaugural Imbibe Superstars competition pitting the best sommeliers against bartenders to see who which team could pull off the feat of faking their arch …
Remember running around the Saatchi Gallery last January madly trying to taste over 800 wines from over 200 producers? Remember getting distracted by sculptures, Twitter tastings, winemakers, spirits and everything else that was going on? Recall producing one of the amazing 300 canvases visitors produced that we featured on Art Attack Fridays on this blog?
Well, it’s time to do it all over again – only this year things are a little …
If you’re new to the blog you might not have a clue what Art Attack Fridays are all about. Well earlier this year, before our Handmade Annual Tasting, we sent our customers and staff a blank canvas each with the simple brief…attack it with art! Every Friday we celebrate someone’s efforts. It could be a topical canvas, or just one that someone here really likes.
This week …
This stunning Handmade effort from Bincho Yakitori was unique amongst all the canvases that we received. The art of creating lifelike food models is common in Asian cuisine and this was an absolute beauty. It was selected this week by Jenni Lockett who said:
“They used real sushi and I don’t know how they managed to preserve it. Excluding the soy syrup that started dripping 2 weeks later, I …
Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit’s Friiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiday! It used to be our fave day of the week because it’s the only one beginning with ‘F’ before one beginning with ‘S’. But that was before Art Attack Friday hit the scene.
The canvases from the ‘Handmade by Bibendum’ Annual Tasting are once more under the spotlight and this week the chosen one has a very simple, but effective message. Basically…’If I’ve got a …
The Bibendum Annual Tasting just keeps on giving! On the day we were very happy to welcome Siobhan and Rebecca who tramped down from the Beeb with a massive camera and tripod combination. And the results of their handiwork made it up onto the front page of the Business section on the BBC website this morning.
You can see the full video here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7861552.stm
Please make sure you …
It was a tasting like no other. It started with a man called Documentally zooming a tiny camera into the faces of tasters and finished with a man in Manchester taking his shirt off.
The one consistent feature was the wine. The group of bloggers and Twitterers in London joined others around the country in tasting Delicato Old Vine Zinfandel, Laurenz V Friendly Gruner Veltliner and Dinastia …
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