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Cocktail Directory
The best-know, most enduring cocktails of all time.
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- Negroni Cocktail
- Last Word
- Naked & Famous
- Daiquiri (Difford's recipe)
- Margarita on-the-rocks (Difford's recipe)
- Penicillin cocktail
- Mezcal Margarita
- Left Bank Martini
- Poet's Dream
- Dry Martini 'Preferred' (5:1 ratio)
- Californian Margarita
- Martinez (Difford's recipe)
- Dry Martini (15:1 ratio) Montgomery's
- Difford's Fruit Cup No.1 (gin based & Pimm's Cup-like)
- Paper Plane
- Vieux Carré Cocktail
- Whiskey Sour (Difford's recipe)
- Espresso Martini
- La Louisiane
- Enzoni
- Mojito Cocktail
- Singapore Sling
- Ultima Palabra
- Caipirinha
- Sazerac (Difford's split base)
- Tommy's Margarita
- Margarita (straight-up)
- Old Fashioned Cocktail (Difford's recipe)
- Ramos Gin Fizz
- Pisco Sour (Difford's recipe)
- Rum Swizzle
- Irish Coffee
- Gimlet (Difford's recipe)
- Three Dots and a Dash
- Daiquiri (frozen)
- Añejo Old Fashioned
- Gin & Tonic
- Manhattan (Sweet)
- Midnight Stinger
- Brown Derby
- Garibaldi
- Bobby Burns (Difford's own)
- M & M
- Blood and Sand (Difford's recipe)
- Royal Bermuda Yacht Club
- Satan's Whiskers (Straight)
- Mint Julep
- Honeysuckle Daiquiri
- Canchànchara
- Scotch Sour
- Air Mail
- Ford Cocktail
- Rum Old Fashioned
- San Francisco (Café Royal)
- Vesper Dry Martini
- Rum Punch
- Twentieth Century
- Pina Colada (Difford's recipe)
- Banana Calling
- Spritz Al Bitter (Spritz Veneziano)
- Grog
- Affinity
- Daiquiri (on-the-rocks)
- Bradford Martini
- French 75 (Difford's recipe)
- Tuxedo (Difford's recipe)
- Pisco Punch (Difford's recipe)
- Dry Martini (7:1 ratio) Embury's
- Silk Stocking
- Bronx (Difford's)
- East India No.2
- Dry Martini (10:1 ratio)
- Mizuwari
- Bloody Mary (Difford's recipe)
- Dry Martini (15:5 dumped) Franklin
- Gin Basil Smash
- Amaretto Sour (by Jeffrey Morgenthaler)
- Mai Tai (Trader Vic's)
- Corpse Reviver No.2 (Savoy Recipe)
- Champs-Elysees Cocktail
- Closing Argument
- Queen's Park Hotel Super Cocktail
- Paloma
- Bramble
- Chartreuse Swizzle
- Hemingway Special Daiquiri (Papa Doble)
- Old Cuban
- New York Sour
- Painkiller
- Boston Sour
- Tia Mia
- Eastside Gimlet
- Missionary's Downfall
- Clover Club
- Picante de la Casa (Soho House Tonic)
- Golden Cadillac
- Margarita (frozen)
- Fish House Punch
- Strawberry Margarita (frozen)
- Sangaree (Sangria)