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Jo & Jamie are part of the Met Bar A-team. Jo James heads up Marketing & Public Relations for both of Como Hotels & Resorts’ fabulous London properties; Metropolitan London and The Halkin. Nearly three years into her dream role, Jo has enjoyed her creative input in keeping both hotels at the forefront of the London scene. Jamie is the Met Bar’s star Membership Secretary looking after the 3,000+ members, and securing the best parties in town. After a career start in Fashion PR, Jamie brings his ‘bleached & blazer’ approach to the Met Bar unleashing a fresh cocktail of fashion zest to all he does!

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24 Jul

An Awsum show featuring the great ‘Dynamo’

Posted by Jo & Jamie from the Met Bar in Clubs, Comedy, Music, Pubs & Bars 1 Comment
JA showSix months ago when Met Bar loyalist, Jonny Awsum, announced that his dream was to become a TV presenter, we first congratulated him on the marvelous idea to publicise the quick-wit and quite simply rather strange sense of humour we had come to love, but we knew that his first appearance had to be on a stage here!

On Wednesday night Episode 5 of The Jonny Awsum Show took place with its winning formula of anarchic comedy, celebrity guests, live music and the infamous Rock & Roll raffle. ‘RE-DRAW!’ – Sorry, you just had to be there on the night! Think Jonathan Ross meets Generation Game meets School Panto BUT on acid! It is a spectacle that can only be truly appreciated by all those who have witnessed a show first-hand.

Wednesday night was electric with guests including outstanding British magician, Dynamo, whose celebrity followers include David Beckham, Kings of Leon and Jay-Z (we are all still baffled by his crazy mobile phone disappearing, and re-appearing in a glass water bottle trick!) plus live music from Beans on Toast, and singer-songwriter Jersey Budd. Best-selling author Suzanne Portnoy also popped in for a second appearance with a sneak preview from her new erotic memoirs.

Jonny is taking August off due to a bi-annual trip to L.A to meet with his psychedelic track-suit outfitters, and catch up with his Hollywood celebrity pals. He will be returning to the stage on Wednesday 16th September, holiday photos and all! For now, “Goodbye from the Jonny Awsum show….”

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16 Jul

Met Bar’s cocktail launch party

Posted by Jo & Jamie from the Met Bar in Clubs, Eating Out, Pubs & Bars, Special Events 3 Comments
The Smokey Sanchez

The Smokey Sanchez

At the Met Bar, we take our drinks (and drinking) very seriously so it was natural to feel that the conception of our new cocktail menu could not be launched in any other way than in true Met Bar style – with one hell of a party!

On Tuesday 14th July, we treated 100 very special guests to an exclusive preview of the new menu that features innovative categories such as Light & Aromatic, Medium & Spiced, Full Bodied & Spirited and Bubbly & Beautiful. A rather clever idea so that one can decide upon their choice of cocktail depending on mood, in crude terms of how quickly they need an alcoholic-hit or personally I (Jo) have more romantic notions of how well the categories befit me and my form…

Gorgeous pin-up and songstress Esme Bianco opened the party with a rendition of Sooner or Later (her 17 inch, blood red corseted waist made Madonna at the 91 Oscar’s look like Little Miss Muffet!), then a few more feverish songs to set the scene for one long, hot party.

Over three hours, guests were taken on a tasting journey from a sparkling English 76 (we had to go one better than a French 75), to a fruity Amaro Dolce, a refreshing Tea-juana Lady, a Sidecar named Desire (moving, or perhaps swaying is the more appropriate term from light to medium), to the more serious Hugo (he’s smoother than Jack) and our version of the classic Margarita, The Smokey Sanchez.

With ten cocktails down, it was time for a game of Chocolate Roulette – rather large shot glasses filled with Valrhona’s finest drinking chocolate spiked with various spirits based on our new METIFESTO or the ten drinking commandments according to the Met Bar (or only whilst wearing sequins if according to Jamie!).

As the night drew to a close, Esme performed her grand finale striptease to a delirious crowd, or at least they seemed to be when trying to pronounce ‘Home-made Falernum’ after ten cocktails, our parting gift from the new Met Apothecary (a selection of devilishly good syrups to spice things up). And no we assure you, it is only for use when drinking…

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9 Jul

Slow Club LIVE at The Met Bar

Posted by Jo & Jamie from the Met Bar in Clubs, Music 4 Comments

Becci and Charles of Slow Club

A love of music is pre-requisite for the team at the Met Bar, as much as we may not share a love for the same music (Jamie and I are far too young to remember Echo and the Bunnymen!); we can’t fail to recognize talent when it comes along. And so it happened last week when first hearing new girl-boy duo Slow Club’ live from Glastonbury.  The recount of their performance quickly turned into full gone approval that they simply HAD to play in the Met Bar.

The rest is history. Last night as if by the magical tones of Slow Club and the beat of their drums, they (Becci & Charles to us fans) appeared on our stage to perform to a full house. Members, friends, music executives, radio producers, all who had gathered to see them perform at our exclusive gig, were treated to the delightfully innocent, quirky humour of their lyrics and punky folk-pop sounds. They finished their set off with their trade-mark sing-a-long crowd mingling, although I think Becci was particularly making a bee-line for Duncan James in the audience, but I couldn’t really say!

Fresh from Glastonbury, and about to set off on festival tour madness at V, i-Tunes, and Latitude later this month, they also have their debut album ‘Yeah, So’ out this week. Check them out on www.myspace.com/slowclub. You will not be disappointed!

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2 Jul

Model behaviour at The Met Bar

Posted by Jo & Jamie from the Met Bar in Special Events 3 Comments

Jeremy Healey and Patsy Kensit at the Met BarHaving caught our breath from last nights model behaviour, we can report on the launch party for Leni’s Model Management (previously Quintessentially Models), which took place at the Met Bar, naturally!

Added Dimension Events created a live installation where guests were treated to an unseen behind the scenes peak at the backstage of a catwalk show. On this hot summer evening, it was only befitting that the models stepped into the Met Bar sporting only this season’s sexiest lingerie. First stop was hair by Brooks & Brooks and make-up by Jemma Kidd. Then, after their first sashay on the runway, they were styled by Clare Watson from new style concierge service Miss Dress, in bright ethereal dresses by Orion, before taking to the podium for their final shot, drawing attention from all in the room.

Meanwhile, guests including Hugh Grant (and his mystery blonde model friend “Cynthia”), Danni Minogue, Terri Seymour, Jeremy Healy and Patsy Kensit sipped on ‘Luscious Leni’ cocktails created by the fabulous Met Bar Mixologist’s and gorged on low-fat cupcakes. As DJ Jeremy Healey’s electro-punk disco tracks filled the air, the party spilled onto Park Lane with Holly Willoughby and Chloe Madeley delaying their Nobu reservations to join in the fun!

As the party came to a close around midnight, guests were last seen clutching their bulging goody bags filled with sweet treats made by James Middleton’s (Kate’s brother nonetheless) very own hands, and beauty products galore (um Jamie – where was mine?!).

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24 Jun

A Hofftastic time for the Met Bar at the Quintessentially Summer Party

Posted by Jo & Jamie from the Met Bar in Special Events 2 Comments

David Hasselhoff

With recovery time now over, we can share our tales from last Thursday, when the Met Bar team headed to the Quintessentially and Perrier Jouet Summer Party held at the Orangery at Kensington Palace.

Greeted by belly dancers clutching magnums of Belle Epoque champagne as well as several eager photographers, a certain young hot blonde companion (yes that’s you Jamie) got papped in his bright pink and purple peony jacket. As the evening began, models Lily Cole and Poppy Delevigne mingled with Blur’s Alex James and Razorlight’s Johnny Borrell on the terrace, but after the champagne glasses were topped up a few times, the hot summer’s night and decadent setting started to work it’s magic. On stepping back into the palace, we were greeted by a sea of guests who had been transformed by make-up artists into characters from the Beautiful and the Damned. I (Jo) chose a feverishly feline look to match my vintage leopard-print clutch and then headed to Prangsta costumiers for a complete Las Vegas showgirl makeover, whilst Jamie became a male-courtier from the age of Marie Antoinette – sadly we are not at liberty to share the pictures!

Other frankly bemusing sights included; “Live art” in the form of a living mummy being carried on a stretcher through the party whilst several guests prodded him in compromising places to see if he really had been set in plaster! Once night had truly fallen, an unlikely star of the show appeared when The Hoff rocked up with his daughters, ‘The Hoff Drops’(pictured above). Guests were clamouring to get a piece of Mr Hasselfhoff, and Jamie was even told by one ferocious fan to “get in line” when he was only trying to catch a waiter for yet another top up.

By 11pm the palace had run out of champagne all together but with one call from the Met Bar, a fresh shipment of Perrier Jouet arrived via London’s finest for the thirsty guests.

At 1am the Belle Epoque-decorated slick fleet of Jaguars whisked the VIP guests off to the Met Bar for the after party with Roger Taylor from Duran Duran already on the decks. More guests followed our lead back to the bar for more debauchery, and by 2am the bar had hit capacity. The party continued long into the early hours; needless to say it was champagne headaches all round on Friday morning!

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