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THE AMERICAN BAR’S NEW FACE

Source: Pippa Guy (right) is just 25 and the first woman to hold the position since Ada Coleman, who created the Hanky-Panky cocktail, back in the early 1900s

As with famous people, in real life the American Bar in the Savoy is smaller than you might expect. London’s oldest surviving cocktail bar— so named because it serves “American-style” mixed drinks—is a peculiar shape, curved like a pill capsule that has been pinched in the middle. Its decor is art

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