The Cocktail Party is as Fashionable as it Has Ever Been
PHILIPPINES Restaurant and Wine Bar:
Date: 3rd October, 2010
Cocktail parties may have taken a little break during the more casual decades of the 1960′s and 1970′s, but since then they have regained their popularity with full strength. Wine and beer are still popular beverages, but there has been a tremendous resurgence in the popularity of mixed drinks.
For the busy host, a cocktail party is a convenient way to entertain any kind of guest list ranging from neighbors to business associates. The typical time for this party is only two hours. Because of the fluid nature of this party (no pun intended!) you can mix guests who might not feel comfortable sitting across from one another at a three-hour dinner party.
My favorite part of hosting a cocktail party is that you can experiment with a wide variety of food on your menu. Since everyone will be eating only little tastes, if they don’t like something, you can be confident that there will be plenty of other choices for them. Everyone is likely to find something they will enjoy.
But returning to the most important part of the cocktail party, the cocktails, I asked fellow guide Colleen Graham, About’s Cocktail Guide, to let us in on what the most popular drinks are these days on the cocktail circuit. Below is a list of her choices for current favorite cocktails. Be sure to check them out along with her tempting photos for each drink.
- Cosmopolitan – A fun, pink drink that was popularized on the HBO series Sex and the City.
- Dirty Martini – Don’t worry, you won’t need to wash after this drink. But with the addition of olive juice, this drink has a salty bite to it.
- Chocolate Martini – This drink has special appeal to anyone with a sweet tooth. But it doesn’t look like what you’d expect.
- Apple Martini – I don’t know if this would count toward your 5-a-day fruit and veggie requirement!
Whether you’re an experienced cocktail party host, or are just stepping into the stylish world of cocktail party entertaining, here are tips to help make your next party a successful event.
- Stock up on plenty of ice. You’ll need it for chilling bottles of wine or champagne as well as serving in drinks on the rocks. A good rule of thumb is plan to have 1-pound of ice per guest.
- Be prepared with an assortment of glass styles to cover the type of drinks you plan to serve. These include wine glasses for wines, juice and water; straight-sided highballs for tall drinks; tumblers for spirits and juices; and martini glasses.
- Have twice as many glasses on hand as guests. For wine, champagne and martini glasses, wine glass charms will help guests to keep track of glasses as they mill about your party.
- For a 2-hour party where you only plan on serving wine and/or champagne, you’ll need to have one bottle for every two guests. Have a mix of white and red varieties. White used to be the predominant favorite, but red is becoming just as popular.
- For a basic bar you’ll want to stock up on vodka, whiskey, wines and beer. For a more complete bar you can add gin, tequila, rum, bourbon, vermouth, sherry, and brandy.
- Don’t forget to stock up on mixers including orange juice, soda, tonic, ginger ale, cola, tomato juice, Tabasco, lemons, limes, horseradish, Worcestershire sauce.
- If you anticipate your guests will be wine drinkers, you can prepare by uncorking a few bottles in advance, and then replacing the corks.
- Consider hiring a bartender to mix the drinks for your party. That will allow you much more time to socialize with your guests. There are even caterers that specialize in bartending services only.
- Have coffee available for any guests that may need a little assistance at the end of the party. Your local taxi company phone number should also be handy and offered to any guests you believe shouldn’t be driving.
- As our Cocktails Guide points out, a cocktail party is not a family event!
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Yats Restaurant and Wine Bar was built by Hong Kong-based Yats International in 2000 to provide a world-class fine dining restaurant, business meeting facilities and venues for private dinners and functions in Pampanga Angeles City Clark Freeport Zone. Pampanga Angeles City Clark Philippines was selected for this restaurant because of safety, clean air, absence of traffic and proximity to Manila and Subic.
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Getting to this fine dining restaurant of Angeles City Clark Freeport Zone Pampanga Philippines
How to get to this fine-dining restaurant in Clark Philippines? Once you get to Clark Freeport, go straight until you hit Mimosa. After you enter Mimosa, stay on the left on Mimosa Drive, go past the Holiday Inn and Yats Restaurant (green top, independent 1-storey structure) is on your left. Just past the Yats Restaurant is the London Pub.
Source: http://entertaining.about.com/cs/horsdoeuvres/a/cocktailparty.htm
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