AN OXFORD business is offering a taste of the high life to those who can’t wait for the next James Bond film – sophisticated cocktails, served by an expert.
Oxford Brookes University graduate Tom Abrams runs Shaken and Stirred, offering mobile cocktail bars for parties and product launches.
To add extra spice, the company is now offering James Bond lookalike Chris Cox, who will don a tuxedo and a Walther PPK pistol to become the suave British super spy for the evening.
If you have the money, 007 can even arrive in an Aston Martin to serve your cocktails.
Mr Abrams, a hospitality management graduate, said: “I started as a chef, then by my mid-20s I was running bars. I wanted to do something for myself, so I set up Shaken and Stirred.”
He started working from home in East Oxford in 2007, but after a few years he expanded into a warehouse in Cowley, where he stores 3,000 glasses, glass washing equipment and flat-pack cocktail bars.
He said: “I think businesses are looking for an alternative to expensive places like hotels. ”
Now Steve Guest, a fellow student at Oxford Brookes 14 years ago, has joined the company to promote it via social networking sites, winning it two awards on Twitter.
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