How to Make a Spy Happy with Benoit Provost, American Bar at the Stafford Hotel

What’s a Frenchman doing overseeing the most American Bar in London? Benoit Prevost has been making Manhattans for 23 years at The Stafford Hotel.  He reveals what’s kept him here all this time.
I sit down with Benoit Provost, the Frenchman who heads up the most American of Bars in London.
Ben invited me for drinks over lunch and talked me through his journey from the Loire Valley to https://thestaffordlondon.com/american-bar/ (the Stafford) - his home for 23 years.
If you haven’t been to the American Bar, you are in for a real treat. Order the White Mouse and toast to one of the great heroes of World War Two. Don’t forget also to toast to the man who brought you that drink, Benoit Provost.
On the next Lush Life podcast, Alessandro Palazzi, the guardian of the myth of the Martini at Duke’s Hotel London, Ian Fleming’s second home, joins me here.
Thanks for listening to Lush Life. For more information and links to everything you heard about plus a bit more, please visit https://alushlifemanual.com/ (ALushLifeManual.com). Follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/alushlifemanual (@ALushLifeManual).  My theme music is by http://www.vibraphonic.com/home.html (Steven Shapiro) and used with permission.
Always remember the wise words of Oscar Wilde, “All things in moderation, including moderation,” and always drink responsibly!

What’s a Frenchman doing overseeing the most American Bar in London? Benoit Prevost has been making Manhattans for 23 years at The Stafford Hotel.  He reveals what’s kept him here all this time.

I sit down with Benoit Provost, the Frenchman who heads up the most American of Bars in London.

Ben invited me for drinks over lunch and talked me through his journey from the Loire Valley to the Stafford - his home for 23 years.

If you haven’t been to the American Bar, you are in for a real treat. Order the White Mouse and toast to one of the great heroes of World War Two. Don’t forget also to toast to the man who brought you that drink, Benoit Provost.

On the next Lush Life podcast, Alessandro Palazzi, the guardian of the myth of the Martini at Duke’s Hotel London, Ian Fleming’s second home, joins me here.

Thanks for listening to Lush Life. For more information and links to everything you heard about plus a bit more, please visit ALushLifeManual.com. Follow me on Twitter at @ALushLifeManual.  My theme music is by Steven Shapiro and used with permission.

Always remember the wise words of Oscar Wilde, “All things in moderation, including moderation,” and always drink responsibly!