Cocktails & mixed drinks

Cocktail Finder

Find cocktails with specific ingredients, combinations of ingredients, by bartenders, by style, by rating...

Cocktails Made Easy

Make 100s of cocktails at home just using things from your pantry, a 10 Bottle Bar + your favourite base spirit: vodka, gin, whiskey, rum, brandy etc...

3 Ingredient Cocktails

Most of the enduring classic cocktails comprise just three ingredients e.g. rum+lime+sugar=Daiquiri. A few, such as the Negroni consist of three equal

Cocktail Hall of Fame

The following 262* cocktails are preeminent and best-known of the 5,000+ cocktails on Difford's Guide and, subject to ingredients, these are all cocktails

Eight Sessionable Summer Spritzes

For when the night is young, and staying sober(ish) means longer catch ups and more time spent with friends.

Original Tequila Sunrise

Tequila notes shine with delicate berry fruit (and depending on your ingredients subtle vanilla) in this delicious 1930's version of the Sunrise.

Australia's Top Ten Cocktails 2021

2021... better known as 2020 the remix. Plenty of lows, lockdowns and homemade cocktails, as well as celebrations, reopenings and drinks shared with friends.

The Original Venetian Spritz: Select Spritz

Select is often credited as the very first Italian bitter to be added to the Spritz formula, thus forming part of the Original Venetian Spritz. This traditional

How to drink Italian this summer

There's a word in Italian, sprezzatura, which translates badly in English, or rather doesn't have a translation at all. It roughly means something crafted

7 Cherry Cocktails for Christmas

Cherry is a very Australian festive flavour, with bowls of the ripe fruit a memory for most Aussie kids around Christmas time. Now that we're older though,

Cocktails from The Pantry: Gin Edition

Savoury ingredients are rarely used in cocktails, instead we rely heavily on fruits and syrups, but there's several ingredients you've probably got tucked

Cocktail Pantry Staples: Sugar Syrup & Agave

What ingredient does a Tommy's Margarita, a Porn Star Martini, a Bramble and an Old Fashioned have in common? A sweetner. Often the after-thought of most

Mastering the French Martini with Chau Tran

Co-owner of Sydney’s beloved Burrow Bar and newly opened restaurant Cash Only Diner, Chau Tran is also a formidable bartender who has worked everything

How to Make the Best Gin & Tonic

Six hacks to take a regular G&T and give it the biggest glow up of Summer 2021.

Smoke & Mirrors (mezcal-based)

A Mezcal Margarita with chili, ginger and pineapple, mellowed by a splash of foaming egg white.

Piña Verde

Green Chartreuse blended with coconut and pineapple – yummm.

How to Match Cocktails & Dishes: Cherry Edition

These three simple pairings, with easy to make cherry liqueur cocktails at their heart, will become your go-to staples for aperitifs, hosting friends and

How to: Upgrade Summer Aperitivo (with just 3 drinks)

Summer and its much-missed aperitivo hour is almost back, you can see whispers of it in the parks at 4pm, and on balconies and in backyards across the

Six Easy Cocktails to Make with Chambord

Whether you’ve got a bottle and are looking for inspiration, or are deciding whether or not to invest, these six easy drinks will make you fall in love

The Best Tequila Cocktails Invented in Australia

Australia has some of the world's most inventive and creative bartenders - something Patrón tequila revealed when they put a call out for recipes as part