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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-23T09:54:23.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "spirits.",
    "Ermias Ghebre Kidane",
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    "Lateef Okunnu",
    "London",
    "Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park",
    "Steven Joyce",
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    "after hours | the aubrey, london",
    "Schön! Magazine"
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  "textContent": "There’s something deliciously decadent about slipping into The Aubrey after midnight. The velvet-heavy, low-lit spaces of this late-night izakaya (and award-winning Japanese restaurant) tucked beneath the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park feel like portals into another time. It’s London, but a hedonistic London seen through the sensual, ink-smeared imagination of Aubrey Beardsley, the dandy 19th Century English illustrator and author who celebrated decadence and made it into an art form. When we speak to The Aubrey’s Bar Manager Ermias Ghebre Kidane, it’s clear he carries the same reverence for detail and provocation as Beardsley himself. Born in Rome, now a self-declared Londoner, Kidane has turned the bar into an immersive experience and designed a menu where each drink plays out like a chapter in a scandalous novel. For example, on Halloween, The Aubrey threw an after-party until 3 a.m., complete with DJs and cocktails that felt part séance, part sensory experiment. The current cocktail list reads like a fever dream in three acts: Mythological Women, The Conjunction of Japanese and English Influences and Art Nouveau. Each drink on the menu tells its own tale, featuring ingredients and backstories that linger long after the last sip. The Medusa, with its shimmering gold... Read more »\n\nThe post after hours | the aubrey, london appeared first on Schön! Magazine.",
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