What do you do after growing up in Rwanda, Burundi and Japan and then studying BA in anthropology from the London School of Economics? Why, you snap up a job at the nearest London pub as a bartender and come up with innovative cocktails that even have Viagra in them!

When celebrated mixologist (he insists he is just a bartender) Ulric Nijs offers us this story by way of introduction, we figure quickly that whatever else the evening is going to be from here on, “normal” won’t figure on our list. And we are not wrong.