The drinks arrive on a mat that the phone scans like a QR code. To see the cocktails come to life, bar goers will have to download an app, called Mirage, to their iPhone or Android. The menu will also include the Dogstone Brew, a gin-based cocktail served in a glass coffee cup that appears on the app alongside Monty Python-esque imagery. The London Evening Standard shared photo previews of the cocktails as they would appear on the app, which included the Calavera, a tequila-based cocktail surrounded by Dia de los Muertos skeletons in a mariachi band, and the Wheatfields With Fizz, a simple, wheat-colored cocktail on a backdrop filled with references to Van Gogh paintings. In an apparent grab for social media shares, the drinks will be real, but appear on your phone screen with virtual art that reflects the cocktails’ themes and flavors. According to the London Evening Standard, the chef, who has three Michelin-starred restaurants in London (Pollen Street Social, Social Eating House, and City Social), thriving restaurants in Asia, and opened clubhouse the Clocktower in New York in 2015, is launching the first-ever “augmented reality cocktail menu” at the bar at City Social, his restaurant on the 24th floor of London’s Tower 42. to the endBritish chef and restaurateur Jason Atherton is dipping his toes into the virtual reality game.
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