JawBox gin debuts at the 5* Culloden Estate & Spa, Belfast
As bars look to new ways to satisfy their clientele while keeping them safe, the Culloden Estate & Spa in Belfast has found the perfect outdoor solution. The luxury five-star hotel, part of the Hastings Hotels group, has teamed up with Belfast gin producers, Jawbox, to provide an outdoor bar experience featuring an impressive converted shipping container set in the stunning hotel gardens.
The bar, used at numerous events in London, hasn’t yet had its debut in Northern Ireland, the home of Jawbox. Given the current climate, the team at Jawbox Gin reached out to Hastings Hotels with the offer to use it, giving locals and guests a unique social setting as lockdown begins to ease.
Hastings Hotels, which has been voted Ireland's best luxury hotel group for the past two years, will locate the outdoor bar next to the five-star Culloden Hotel’s bistro in the hotel’s gardens, the Cultra Inn. As well as serving the award-winning Jawbox gin, the bar will offer beer and wine with food in the Cultra Inn.
“We were bowled over by this very kind gesture from Steven in Jawbox which really will help to maximise the beautiful surroundings at the Culloden’s Cultra Inn. It will also allow us to enhance the enjoyment and safety of visitors to the Culloden at a time of restrictions and social distancing. The word has been spreading fast and we’ve already booked a number of small parties for the summer months.” Howard Hastings, Managing Director of Hastings Hotels.
The Hastings Hotels collection consists of seven hotels, with four in Belfast, including the five-star Culloden Estate and Spa, the world-famous Europa Hotel, the four-star Stormont Hotel and Northern Ireland's tallest hotel The Grand Central Hotel. The Slieve Donard in Down underneath the Mourne Mountains, Ballygally Castle on the Antrim Coast and the Everglades in Derry complete the Hastings portfolio.
Culloden Estate & Spa (hastingshotels.com / 028 9042 1066) offers rooms from £100 per person on a B&B basis.
