How to Celebrate 15 Years of Nightjar with Roisin Stimpson and Edmund Weil
Lush Life25 Marras 2025

How to Celebrate 15 Years of Nightjar with Roisin Stimpson and Edmund Weil

Some birds sing at dawn to wake us up, but today we’re celebrating the birthday of a certain nocturnal songbird whose award-winning cocktails, wonderful hospitality, and sultry nightly soundtrack have been keeping London warbling for 15 years.

Today we’re turning our attention to Nightjar, the Shoreditch bar that rewrote London’s late-night playbook.

Joining me are the brilliant duo behind it: Roisin Stimpson and Edmund Weil. Long before Nightjar became a fixture on the World’s 50 Best Bars list, the Top 500 Bars, and every other list, Rosie and Edmund had a dream and the drive to create a place that brought together all their passions.

All their bars, Nightjar, Oriole, and Swift, hold a special place in my heart, and you will see why. I don’t want to reveal too much of their story in this intro, so let’s get right into the episode and have them guide us through the story of Nightjar.

 But before that, if you love Lush Life, we would so appreciate your support by signing up for our newsletter. You can get our advice on anything to do with home bartending, where to drink in every major city, special recipes, and even your very own Lush Life mug! Just head to alushlifemanual.substack.com and sign up!

Now grab that Martini and let’s join Rosie and Edmund!

Our cocktail of the week is the Toronto:

INGREDIENTS

  • 50 ml Woodford Reserve
  • 12.5 ml Fernet Branca
  • 7.5 ml Maple syrup, infused with roasted coffee beans & pecan nut

METHOD

  • Add all the ingredients to a mixing glass
  • Add ice and then stir until chilled and
  • Strain it into a rocks glass.
  • Garnish with cotton candy


You’ll find this recipe and all the cocktails of the week at alushlifemanual.com, plus links to most of the ingredients.


Full Episode Details: https://alushlifemanual.com/nightjar-with-roisin-stimpson-edmund-weil/


-----


Become a supporter of A Lush Life Manual for as little as $5 - all you have to do is go to https://substack.com/@alushlifemanual.

Lush Life Merchandise is here - we’re talking t-shirts, mugs, iPhone covers, duvet covers, iPad covers, and more covers for everything! And more!


Produced by Simpler Media

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram

Get great cocktail ideas on Pinterest

New episodes every Tuesday, usually!!

Jaksot(274)

How One Man Avoided a Lifetime of House Flipping With Sam Carter, Bombay Sapphire, Laverstoke

How One Man Avoided a Lifetime of House Flipping With Sam Carter, Bombay Sapphire, Laverstoke

Our guest today had a moment of doubt. After watching too many episodes of Location, Location, Location, he thought he would switch from making Rum Flips to doing Room Flips. Thank goodness for us, it...

7 Marras 201736min

How to Get from Moss to Martini in Five Years with Gregory Buda, Dickie's Bar, London

How to Get from Moss to Martini in Five Years with Gregory Buda, Dickie's Bar, London

Looking down a microscope 24/7, you could get thirsty. Our guest today did, leading him to experiment more on martinis, then moss, stepping away from a life of botany into one filled with B52s, Bacard...

17 Loka 201727min

How to ride your horse and carriage straight to the Carversville Inn with Lydiann Spencer-Jones

How to ride your horse and carriage straight to the Carversville Inn with Lydiann Spencer-Jones

Every episode of Lush Life Podcast is dear to me and I love meeting so many new people. It’s very rare for me to interview someone whom I have known for at least 15 years. Every Friday night, almost w...

10 Loka 201717min

How to go from Archeologist to Brand Ambassador with Mikey Pendergast, East London Liquor Company

How to go from Archeologist to Brand Ambassador with Mikey Pendergast, East London Liquor Company

His parents both did it and they never wanted our next guest to go anywhere near it. Like kids usually do, he didn't listen. Somehow Mikey Pendergast found himself on a fast track to becoming an archa...

3 Loka 201725min

How to Make a 600 Year Old Recipe Post-modern with Yolande de Bueil and Marc Jean, Bénédictine

How to Make a 600 Year Old Recipe Post-modern with Yolande de Bueil and Marc Jean, Bénédictine

Alexandre Le Grand could teach us all a lesson or two on brand awareness. Lesson 1: find a 300 year old recipe. Lesson 2: remake it for today’s palate, Lesson 3: Market the hell out of it. His first t...

26 Syys 201720min

How to Make Your Way Through All These Gins With Olivier Ward, Gin Foundry, UK

How to Make Your Way Through All These Gins With Olivier Ward, Gin Foundry, UK

He was always been one step ahead of the gin craze. Olivier Ward, our guest today, worked for the powerhouse Hendricks in its early days, wrote one of the first gin blogs, and ultimately founded the H...

19 Syys 201731min

Introducing the Lush Life Podcast

Introducing the Lush Life Podcast

Where can you learn to live life one cocktail at a time? Here on the Lush Life Podcast discover why an old-fashioned is the drink of choice, who is making their own bitters and how ice, or lack there ...

12 Syys 201757s

How to Make a Daiquiri Hemingway Would Drink with Dave Miller, Ray's Bar

How to Make a Daiquiri Hemingway Would Drink with Dave Miller, Ray's Bar

First study English Literature, then move to London and then visit Cuba - at least that’s what our guest today did before making me the Daiquiri of my dreams. Dave Miller, General Manager of Ray’s Bar...

8 Elo 201726min

Suosittua kategoriassa Yhteiskunta

olipa-kerran-otsikko
i-dont-like-mondays
sita
siita-on-vaikea-puhua
kaksi-aitia
gogin-ja-janin-maailmanhistoria
uutiscast
antin-palautepalvelu
poks
joku-tietaa-jotain-2
kolme-kaannekohtaa
mamma-mia
aikalisa
yopuolen-tarinoita-2
rss-murhan-anatomia
rss-palmujen-varjoissa
rss-nikotellen
meidan-pitais-puhua
naakkavalta
loukussa