The Anti-Gin Gin Night ~ A Modern African Gin Experience

Think you don’t like gin? Perfect.

This night was designed for you.

Gin has evolved far beyond pine-heavy martinis and outdated stereotypes. At Martini Room, we’re introducing something rarely found in Chicagoland’s northwest suburbs — African gin crafted with native botanicals that bring a softer, brighter, more tropical expression to the glass.

Bayab Gin is distilled using ingredients like baobab fruit and marula, creating layered, modern flavor profiles that feel fresh, unexpected, and remarkably approachable.

It’s not the gin you think you know.

And it might completely change your mind.

Enjoy a curated tasting flight of four half-size signature cocktails, each crafted to showcase a different modern expression of Bayab African Gin:

· Pineapple After Hours – tropical depth with a bittersweet edge

· Pink Savanna – rose, berry, and floral elegance

· Orange Ritual – citrus warmth layered with ginger and botanicals

· Velvet Violet Fizz – airy, refreshing, and softly floral

Each cocktail is thoughtfully presented in curated glassware as part of a plated tasting experience.

Total alcohol equivalent: approximately two full cocktails.

Enhance your evening with an elevated botanical tasting featuring four 0.5 oz neat pours of Bayab Gin expressions:

· Bayab Classic

· Bayab Palm & Pineapple

· Bayab Burnt Orange

· Bayab African Rose

Discover the spirit on its own — then experience how each expression transforms within the cocktails.

Four curated mini cocktails.

Four mini cocktails plus four neat gin pours.

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21+ event. Limited seating available.

· A modern take on gin cocktails

· Tropical African botanicals rarely found locally

· Four thoughtfully crafted mini cocktails presented as a plated tasting

· Limited seating for an intimate, curated evening

This isn’t a traditional tasting. It’s a reintroduction — to gin, to botanicals, and to what a cocktail can be.

Come curious. Leave converted.

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Martini Room, 161 East Chicago Street, Elgin, United States

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