Cosmo Bar

Salim Khoury joined the American Bar at the Savoy in 1969 and spent more than 30 years there before he was made its 10th head barman in 2003.

In 1992 he was named UK Barman of the Year for a drink dedicated to Princess Diana, the Blushing Monarch, and it is still on the list here. From 2015 he came back to The Nai Harn every year to train the bar team himself, and after he died in 2021 the bar began pouring a Martini in his honour — stirred, never shaken, the way he always insisted.

The bar keeps its own cold-drip coffee, brewed daily and bottled by hand in 3 single-estate roasts — Ethiopia, Rwanda and Thailand — each poured for a different note: floral and bubblegum from the Ethiopian beans, blackberry and grape from the Rwandan, dark chocolate and sugarcane from the Thai. It runs alongside the cocktail list for anyone who wants a slower drink before the evening starts.

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