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Signature Serves On tour
Ruby's Dalston
Diving for Pearls in Dalston: Jerome Colas, bartender at Ruby's in Dalston, demonstrates his take on a Donn Beach tiki classic, the Polynesian Pearldiver. French-...
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Tales of the Cocktail 2013
Spirited Awards Shortlist
diffordsguide has been shortlisted four times for Spirited Awards at this year's Tales of the Cocktail convention in New Orleans. Editor Ian Cameron has been name...
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Quality Chop House
Open since 1869, this quirky Victorian restaurant has been reborn with new owners. It now boasts a fabulous wine list and nails a short list of cocktails.
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Alexander & James
The luxury spirits website that's a portal to the world of Diageo Reserve, offering gifts, unique barware and rare spirits in addition to the core Reserve portfolio
Also new this week...
Spirited Reviews
Tuesday 21 May 2013
I've just come back from the Manhattan Cocktail Classic where I sourced a curious collection of spirits and liqueurs. Samogon Camotoh Russian Grappa 45% alc./vol. P...
New Bars in... London
Tuesday 21 May 2013
A new speakeasy from the team behind the Mayor of Scaredy Cat Town, plus a Victorian restaurant reborn for 2013. King of Ladies Man Address: The Breakfast Club, 5-9 B...
Alexander & James
Tuesday 21 May 2013
Diageo recently took the unprecedented step of launching a website to retail its own luxury spirit brands. Alexander & James, named for whisky makers Alexander Walker II...
Copa de Cava
Tuesday 21 May 2013
A new City bar claims to be London's first properly dedicated to cava. Copa de Cava Address: 33 Black Friars Lane, London EC4V 6EP Tel.: +44 (0)20 7236 1518 Type: C...
Earlier features...
Rekorderlig Summer Cocktail Competition
Tuesday 14 May 2013
Cider is the epitome of a British drink, originally made with home-grown apples throughout South Wes...
Wray & Nephew: overproof rum can be a base spirit too
Tuesday 14 May 2013
It's one of the most recognisable flavours in the world of rum, it's practically cornered the overpr...
Spirited Reviews
Tuesday 14 May 2013
A mystery whisky from Glenlivet, a gin by a pub company, a bright-blue minty sambuca, cherry-flavoured Southern Comfort and a fantastic Norwegian aquavit. Bols Honey Liq...
Daily Cocktail
Tuesday 14 May 2013
Next week we'll be raising a toast across the Irish Sea to commemorate the Northern Ireland Peace Deal, enjoying a cocktail for King Henry VIII and lugging a towel around...
An egg-shell-ent little gadget
Tuesday 14 May 2013
Here's something to get egg-cited over. This time-saving gadget is designed to make separating egg y...
Bursting champagne myths
Tuesday 14 May 2013
The way most people pour it is wrong. And the glasses we drink it from are wrong. Think you know abo...
The Mayor of Scaredy Cat Town
Tuesday 14 May 2013
Kate Jackson demonstrates the King Yellowman's Answer. Kate, 30, has been bar manager, or Mayores...
New Bars in... London
Tuesday 14 May 2013
The first bar and restaurant has opened in London's tallest skyscraper, while a new townhouse-venue gives you five levels to choose from. Oblix Address: Level 32, The...
Beer reviews
Tuesday 14 May 2013
Brews with bad attitude, an alcohol-free beer from Warsteiner, and a new ale from Sambrook's Brewery for Renaissance Pubs, marking its tenth birthday. Warsteiner Premium...
Pint-sized Cocktails
Tuesday 7 May 2013
Sam Dunne, bartender at Rotary, near Old Street, demonstrates a pint-sized Margarita. Containing 120ml alcohol, the drink is not for the faint-hearted, but it's a rece...
Sam Ross and Michael McIlroy
Tuesday 7 May 2013
Michael McIlroy and Sam Ross, long-serving bartenders of Milk & Honey, New York, on tearing apart on...
Daily Cocktail
Tuesday 7 May 2013
Plenty to celebrate next week, and for a change it's mostly all positive. There's World Cocktail Day and Manhattan Cocktail Classic - just in case we needed an excuse to...
Spirited Reviews
Tuesday 7 May 2013
A new gin from the accomplished Langley distillery, another from a small pot still in Brooklyn, and a curious collaboration between French and Japanese drinks-makers ar...
Page of Shame: Kansas Clean Distilled Whiskey
Tuesday 7 May 2013
Our Page of Shame hall of fame has a new entrant. Step forward Kansas Clean Distilled Whiskey. Not f...
New Bars in... London
Tuesday 7 May 2013
A cocktail bar at Libertine, the former Chinawhite, where the list has been created by the imaginative team behind Purl and the Worship Street Whistling Shop; and the rev...
Top 100 Cocktails
Tuesday 7 May 2013
We continue our countdown of the world's top 100 cocktails - from the deliciously fiery to the simple and sweet including a potted history of how naval rations and scurvy...
News Shots
Tuesday 7 May 2013
Selfridges relaunches Wine Shop plus new Harry Gordon's Bar Selfridges has opened a brand new Wine Shop on its lower ground floor, fully one third bigger and with more t...
Heir to an icon:
The BACARDI LEGACY 2013 Cocktail Competition
Friday 3 May 2013
Bacardi Legacy is one of the few real 'Grand Slam' competitions in bartending, and is itself a succe...
The Semi-finalists: building their
own legacy
Friday 3 May 2013
This year's 19 semi-finalists and their legacy cocktails showcased the creme de la creme of global b...
The Grand Final: the winning cocktail for 2013
Friday 3 May 2013
Eight of the world's best bartenders made it through to the 2013 Bacardi Legacy final, their names p...
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