How To Use Your Party Venue For A Truly Memorable Cocktail Night

Posted by District Brasserie on September 20th, 2019

The idea of having a party without cocktails is almost blasphemous these days. Whether it’s a workplace celebration, or just a gathering of family and friends, you’re going to want to have a couple of cocktails on the menu. The key is to find the right venue for the revels. Selecting the right Cocktail Party Venues in Sydney is finding the right atmosphere and ambiance to really take the party to the next level. The right venue can range right across the gamut, with restaurants, farms, and resorts all being excellent options as they can provide you with plenty of accommodation within a close distance of the party itself. After all, no one is going to want to be the designated non-drinking driver at a cocktail party.

No matter how good the drinks are, however, it won’t be a complete party without great food to go with it. Drinking on an empty stomach is not a pleasant experience, and the best cocktails all go with some kind of delicious food anyway. The experience all comes together when the lights are dim, the drinks are chilled and hot food is served.

The best foods to go with a cocktail party are the easy-to-eat stuff that has a strong, clean flavour. You can have lots of delicious stuff in food like roasted chicken, nuts and chips and kebabs. These all work wonderfully well. Just remember that there also needs to be options for vegetarians and vegans, so they don’t feel like string-alongs.

Here are three must-remember tips for making your cocktail party truly something to remember:

Have plenty of ice for the entire event

Cocktails need ice. Whether it’s to chill the wine, or the other critical ingredients, or to go directly into the drink, without ice you’re going to limit yourself… and a lot of those wonderful drinks you had planned are going to not taste so good. A working figure that party planners go with is a pound of ice per person at the event.

Go wild with the glasses

Every cocktail has its ideal glass, and your bartender is going to want to have access to the lot of them. At minimum, make sure there are plenty of juice and water glasses, wine glasses, highballs, tumblers, champagne flutes, martini glasses, and shot glasses. Your caterer or bar staff can clean glasses as you go through the evening, but it’s a good idea to make sure you have two of each glass available at the start of the night – to handle demand as things get busy, and to account for the inevitable breakage or two.

Make sure everyone knows whether it’s full bar, or basic bar, up-front

A basic bar provides enough for the classic cocktails, meaning that your bartender will need to have access to the main wines, whiskey, vodka, beer, and the non-alcoholic juices and waters to mix together. If you want to go all the way, you’ll also need to make sure there’s plenty of gin, sherry, brandy, vermouth, bourbon, tequila, and rum.
Just make sure everyone is aware of what the rules are upfront. People will always play by those rules, but telling them in advance is a good way to kick the mood off on the right foot.

Finally, make sure you’ve got the right team for the job! Finding the ideal cocktail party venues in Sydney is one of the toughest jobs of all, as you need to make sure that the venue will be able to provide a fully-qualified bartender, and ideally the alcohol and glasses so you don’t actually need to think about these things at all.