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If you're not near Borough Market, try the Monmouth Coffee location in Covent Garden, on...Monmouth Street. Saves having to go all the way to Borough Market and everything's just as delicious there. It's the best coffee in London.

A French 75--knocks you out

Gorgeous - I've never made my way there but I'm often in the Covent Garden area. Must give it a try. Would you care to share the dosa place, please?

@kerosena--all my ex-pat friends from the UK only use lemons, never limes in their gin and tonics.

I always keep Bombay Sapphire on hand b/c that is the martini I prefer. Very dry, very cold, up, one olive.

Love Hendrick's for its lighter profile and as the base for a cucumber martini.

One I can no longer find, but which I love for its lovely floral character is the Tanqueray Malacca. Notable absence of juniper, but with an almost viscous body and lovely floral notes. I like to think of it as feminine because it is so perfumey.

The Citadelle gin is different in that it uses the most botanicals, I believe 19 total. The end result is quite clean with a good balance to the juniper.

I like the Tanqueray 10 if a bar does not have the Sapphire.

I'm strictly a Beefeater and tonic girl, always have been! And cafe-peach, I can't tell the difference with diet tonic. It's maybe a little less potent, but a good squeeze of lime solves that! Also sometimes I add a splash of cranberry--Marks and Spencer's, a British department store, makes pink gin that's colored with cranberry, and it's fantastic just with tonic. My mom has always had Gordon's straight on the rocks, but I don't think I inherited that gag reflex!

Gin has properties that other booze does not, not the least of which is that it in above average doses will make one insane...of this I speak from experience. Instead of *the spins* it gives you *the buzz* (Tanqueray in particular) it basically feels like an electric charge going through you and vibrating.

I've seen many a hard drinking type that could handle large quantities of alcohol lose it completely on Gin. The only other booze that rivals it in the inducing of maddness is Tequila/Agave.

Note: The term *Gin blossom* was a canotation of the small burst capillaries on the nose of an alcoholic.

Cadenhead's Old Raj gin with Vya dry vermouth martini (3:1 or 2:1)-- lemon twist, well-shaken. Be careful, though, because the Cadenhead's gin is substantially more alcoholic than regular gin. Hendricks is also tasty, with the strong cucumber element.