One of the things I enjoy most about being part of Edinburgh's bar scene is that the people doing the most interesting work in it are not far away. They are on the same streets, at the same events, in some cases a ten-minute walk from Broughton Street. Iain McPherson is the founder of Panda and Sons on Queen Street, which we have written about before as one of the best cocktail bars in the world. He has spent over a decade building a reputation for techniques that push what a

Chemistry Lessons is no longer on the Nectar menu. This article remains because the story behind it matters more to us than most things we have written about, and because I suspect it will find its way back onto a future menu eventually. There is one cocktail that, more than any other, made me believe we could actually do this. Not the first cocktail Panos and I ever made together. Not the most technically impressive thing that has come out of the bar since we opened. Chemist