Shaken Cocktails – Become champion of the bar in your own home

Everything is available on subscription these days and I do mean everything. Coffee, razors, beer – life’s essentials.

All of these services offer a hassle free delivery of a commodity product and a hassle free extraction of cash from your bank account. It’s a ‘life hack’. An efficiency saving. One more thing to tick from the never-ending to-do list.

Eventually, offering a commodity, these services falter. A freezer full of granules, a bathroom cabinet full of unused shaving foam, a waistline billowing over your belt. And I’m paying for this ‘privilege’?!

Shaken Cocktails is one of a growing number of subscription services aiming to offer something different from this cupboard full of essentials.

Turtle Bay – Walthamstow

Turtle Bay does the sort of things that make a chain restaurant seem attractive. Bright colours, clean tables, friendly (and far too attentive) staff and well-priced dishes that will see £20 cover three courses. It’s the reason I’ll visit Pizza Express. Nothing attention grabbing, just inexpensive food, located in a city centre and usually well placed for a pre-cinema dinner.