Virtual tour: Cole's

Death in the Afternoon

You know it’s a strong drink if Ernest Hemingway reportedly invented it. He wrote, “This was arrived at by the author and three officers in the H.M.S. Danae after having spent seven hours overboard trying to get Capt. Bra Saunders’ fishing boat off a bank where she had gone with us in a N.W. gale.”

What was that? All you need to know is that it's made with absinthe and chilled Champagne.