Daniel Craig's Favorite DUKES Bar at Dukes Hotel After Casino Royale (2006) and the James Bond franchise
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The St James's bar where Ian Fleming dreamed up Bond's 'shaken, not stirred' is also where Daniel Craig drinkers go to pour their own Vesper.
DUKES Bar at 35 St James's Place is the documented birthplace of the James Bond martini ritual. Ian Fleming was a regular here in the 1950s; according to repeated press accounts, it was during his routine visits to DUKES that he decided Bond's drink should be 'shaken, not stirred', and many writers credit the bar as the inspiration behind the Vesper martini that Daniel Craig's Bond first orders across the poker table from Le Chiffre in 2006's Casino Royale. Today, DUKES head bartender wheels the martini trolley to your low-lit alcove table and pours frozen gin or vodka directly into a chilled glass, in plain sight, no shaker. For Bond fans tracing Craig's 15-year, five-film Bond run, this is the most direct Bond pilgrimage in London: a martini, served the way the franchise's defining drink order was first written.
Team/Artist: Casino Royale (2006) and the James Bond franchise
Category: bar
Where Daniel Craig Goes: DUKES Bar at Dukes Hotel
cocktail-bar: 35 St James's Place, St James's, London SW1A 1NY
A 1908 St James's institution famous for its tableside-poured martinis. Ian Fleming was a regular here in the 1950s; the Vesper Martini that Craig's Bond orders in Casino Royale is widely credited as having been formulated by Fleming in this very bar.
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The St James's bar where Ian Fleming dreamed up Bond's 'shaken, not stirred' is also where Daniel Craig drinkers go to pour their own Vesper.
Daniel Craig is regularly seen at DUKES Bar at Dukes Hotel (35 St James's Place, St James's, London SW1A 1NY). A 1908 St James's institution famous for its tableside-poured martinis. Ian Fleming was a regular here in the 1950s; the Vesper Martini that Craig's Bond orders in Casino Royale is widely credited as having been formulated by Fleming in this very bar.
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