We are 19/29. The simple answer is that we’re a full-service hospitality agency, providing drinks, running events and collaborating with some of the biggest and most innovative brands in the world. But we’d like to think we’re more than that too.
The name – and 19/29’s ethos – recall the roaring ’20s and prohibition-era speakeasies. Our founder Angel’s favourite cocktail, the White Lady, was invented in 1919. Its recipe was perfected in 1929.
Finally, no. 19 in the periodic table is potassium and no. 29 is copper. Potassium is something that we need just the right amount of – it’s about balance. And copper has even more obvious link to what we do, playing a vital role in the distillation of alcohol.
So that’s 19/29. A hospitality agency founded on the bedrocks of glamorous, occasionally elicit nights, world class cocktails and perfect chemistry.
About Angel
(founder)
My journey began in 2001 as a bartender at a beach cafe in a small town called Granja near Porto in Portugal. I was very quickly bitten by the hospitality bug, revelling in the look on a guest’s face as they tried a drink that was my own creation.
I moved to London in 2003 to pursue my dream of forging a bartending career, and have been lucky enough to work for venues such as D&D Group, Zetter Hotel and Soho House Group.
I live for challenges and stepping outside my comfort zone. How else to explain accepting a (small) part in the Steve Coogan and Imogen Poots movie ‘The Look of Love’, despite having no acting background, or rollerblading from London to Brighton each year?!
I formed 19/29 in 2019 in a similar spirit of pushing myself. I had the aim of creating a new type of hospitality agency. One which produces world class drinks, events and collaborations, but which always aims to do so with a cheeky, slightly subversive smile on its face. I’m obsessed with seeing people happy, and as you might have gathered by now for me that all comes down to chemistry – the science that helps make truly creative tastes, as well as the vibe between bar staff and guests that can turn a good night into one never to be forgotten.
