The bar manager of this long standing establishment may be young, but his age belies his experience and sophistication. According to himself he grew up tending bar, and you can tell.
For the re-opening of the bar he designed a selection of signature cocktails around the history of Trondheim and Britannia’s place in it. Every detail of each cocktail – content, creation and presentation – plays a role in the story it tells.
A simple ad in the paper announced the opening of Britannia in 1870. The cocktail Origins is designed with an imaginary grand opening in mind, using ingredients that would have been available at the time with a contemporary twist. It is made with Britannia’s very own Ayala champagne. While the collaboration with the champagne house of Ayala is recent, it came about as a result of discovering joint history between the two establishments that were started within a decade of each other all that time ago.
