COCKTAILS
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Bee Sting
The Bee Sting cocktail is a relatively modern creation that plays on the popularity of honey-based cocktails and the growing trend of incorporating spicy elements into drinks. Its history is...
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Rosé & Red Berry Daiquiri
Summer is the perfect time to enjoy fresh English fruits and what better way to do that than supporting your local fruit farm by picking berries yourself (or get them...
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Raspberry Gimlet
Raspberry Gimlet Recipe This is another twist on the gimlet and uses four ingredients. It is a light cocktail perfect to celebrate valentines’ day or enjoy in the summer with...
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Hot Toddy
The hot toddy is one of the easiest cocktails to help you banish those winter blues. It's a warm sweet drink that you will be craving all winter, especially on...
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Smoked Blood Orange Mimosa
The champagne and orange mixture has been known to have different origins. In 1921, at Buck’s Club in London, the Buck’s Fizz was invented. It was a drink made up...
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Rock Shandy
This is a non-alcoholic drink that makes a wonderful beverage in hot temperatures. It is refreshing, citrusy, with a slight bitter profile. It originated from South Africa and is effortless...
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Vesper Martini
Ian Fleming, the author of the famous James Bond books, invented the vesper cocktail in his 1953 novel, Casino Royale. James Bond 007 ordered the martini in the film whilst...
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Passion Fruit Collins
PASSION FRUIT COLLINS The name ‘Collins’ is appended to any mixture of alcohol, lemon, sugar and soda water. This is our twist on the famous Tom Collins. It is believed...
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The Sgroppino
Sgroppino is an Italian cocktail originating from Venice in the 1500s. It was used as a palate cleanser between courses normally with vodka as the base. We came across this...
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The Breakfast Martini
This is a modern classic that was created by the ‘Cocktail Maestro’ Italian bartender Salvatore Calabrese at The Lanesborough in the 1990s inspired by his breakfast consisting of marmalade toast....
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Lemon Curd Gimlet
I love experimenting with citrus fruit and gimlet and sour cocktails are amongst my favourites. Recently we had a jar of lemon curd left in the fridge that needed to...
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Dirty Martini
The Martini is the undoubtedly the king within the cocktail world. It has a rich history and is likely to have evolved from the Martinez cocktail 1887, with the Dirty...
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The Royal Tea Cocktail
This is a cocktail that was made in 2007 to celebrate the Oscar won by the 'The Queen.' It uses both gin and tea, two items that we drink in...
