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Blog Archive for July 2009
Come Dine With Me
It looks like the Want to impress magic has struck again. We were asked to come along to a Come Dine with me dinner, to add a little bit of fun and sparkle, to the evening. Having greeted the three ...
The Big Drink Debate
On June 17th Want to impress helped promote the largest public health debate ever held in the region. This is what the Journal wrote about it; Drinkers and non-drinkers alike are being asked to take part in the North East ...
Want To Impress Works With Robson Brown
Retired Sea Captain launches new show home, and puts down Anchors as first resident at Amytis Gardens On Sunday 12th July, Cussins Ltd officially opened it’s third showhome at Amytis Gardens, and welcomed its first resident, Captain Gordon Stokes. Want ...
We Now Offer Food!
Want to impress Events can not only dazzle your guests with tantalising cocktails served from an amazing bar; but we now can do the same with food! No matter what you have in mind, we can deliver it…the possibilities are ...
Evening Chronicle - If We Can You Can Interview
Cocktail barman mixes business with pleasure Mar 20 2009 by David Old, Evening Chronicle FORMER cocktail barman John Collingwood is hoping to shake up the drinks industry with his fledgling firm. The 29-year-old, from Dunston, Gateshead, is one of the ...
North East Times - Editorial
A FLAIR FOR COCKTAILS Not sure what to do with the bottles of spirits that are collecting dust at the back of your liquor cabinet? Then Want to Impress can help by turning you into a cocktail supremo that Tom ...
Accent Magazine - July's Cocktail Of The Month
This is the first of my Cocktail of the Month features in Accent Magazine. I decided that seeing that it is summer (well it does not look it out of my window), that I should choose one of my favourites, ...
My Story
After six years with Bacardi in a variety of roles, I was made redundant after a restructure in my team. This was a very daunting and unnerving experience, as since the age of 12 (when I was a paper-boy) I ...
Welcome
Welcome to Want to impress My aim is to do what Jamie Oliver did for food, letting you lovely folk learn how easy it is to make great tasting cocktails in the comfort of your own home. So if you ...








