Project Botanicals – Bombay Sapphire

Overview

Bombay Sapphire's annual sit down dinner, Project Botanicals, is returning to Melbourne for another year, celebrating the obsessive and continual love affair that we all have with pairing food and gin. Held at Taxi Riverside in Federation Square, a $49 (plus booking fee) ticket will include a two hour dining session where you'll be served two dishes and two gin cocktails to match. The option to purchase more delicious gin cocktails outside the ticket price is there as well.

Head chef of Taxi Riverside, Tony Twitchett, has specifically designed a menu that enhances and complements the ten botanicals in Bombay Sapphire gin. Expect creative combinations like tempura mussels with salt and vinegar sesame paired with a gin, ginger and cucumber cocktail, and fresh cocktails like the Lemon Collins, with lemon juice, sugar syrup and soda water.

In its third year, Project Botanicals will feature a 'True Artistry' collaboration to engage all five of your senses in a gin tasting. International DJ duo Yolanda Be Cool have created a 'Songs to Drink Gin To' Spotify playlist, featuring a compilation of tracks sampling local sounds from the exotic locations where Bombay Sapphire source their ten botanicals. Along with that, Samantha Taylor, fragrance expert from The Powder Room, has created a gin-inspired perfume. The unisex fragrance is a blend of all ten botanicals in Bombay Sapphire gin – including orris from Italy and lemon peel from Spain.

Project Botanicals runs for two weeks, from September 8 to 18.

Tickets are available via Bombay Sapphire.