Ready, steady......what no booze? Yikes!

So leaflets are laid out and the wee legs will be stomping the streets tomorrow handing them out...we will report back....meanwhile here's few photos of how Howies Waterloo was looking at midnight last night as customers were finishing up and we started to Jubilee it up.

Well what a great idea we had to give away lots and lots of boozy cocktails for the Jubilee on Monday 5th and Tuesday 5th June we thought until we realised the liquid of all things Jubilee - aka Pimms - the quintessentially English booze - has all but ceased to exist as everyone in Edinburgh and Aberdeen seem to have snorkelled up all the bottles.

Our drinks suppliers weren't due in so I got online and found the cheapest place to get Pimms and delivered to the door of the restaurant and fast was Tescos.

As a small independent restaurant we don't like going to multinational giant companies but on this occasion it was that or disappoint the hoards of diners who we are expecting on Monday and Tuesday to gargle our delicious British Summer Cocktail. So I ordered 27 bottles. In fact to be accurate 27 litres. And relaxed. Well relaxed as much as you can in this business.

So cut to Friday when the restaurant phoned to say yes Tescos had delivered the Pimms. The grand total of 7 bottles. Talk about that sinking feeling. What? Yup they just put a note in saying no more available.
Blood pressure rising.
3 restaurants a two day holiday extravaganza and no Pimms - well just enough to get me through the day the way this day was going so far so what next?
Well I got on Shank's pony and stomped the streets of Edinburgh. In and out of every likely looking retailer of Pimms and finally almost resigned to failure I spotted Oddbins and sauntered in there. Well thank the Lord I did, I was met by a charming helpful guy who told me he had completely sold out but rather than admit defeat promptly got online to the rest of his network of shops sorted me out there and then for all the Pimms available in the city and made it all so easy I nearly asked him to crack a bottle open then and there and drink it with me!

So the Pimms is onboard, the bunting is up, the flags are flying, Howies Jubilee two day cocktail extravaganza is ready to roll.....so...
Fresh Mint? Check.
Cucumber, strawberry, orange? Check.
Pimms ? Check
Lemonade or ginger ale? Check to both.
Fresh fruit to chop up bobble around in it? Check.
The secret ingredient? Check!

Now all we need is you!
Howies Waterloo. Howies Victoria and Howies Aberdeen - a big juicy cocktail if you eat with us over the next two days. £8.95 for a 2 course lunch. £14.95 2 course early dinner and mains from £6.95 - can't be bad,