For most of my cocktail-drinking life I’ve ignored the Old Fashioned and yet, over the past year, it’s become one of my favourite cocktails. Made with just a base spirit (usually bourbon), sugar and bitters, …

My bottle of triple sec has been abandoned on my bookshelf (which stores more liquor than books these days) and the reason is the Tommy’s margarita.
This is my new favourite summer cocktail (not that we’ve …

I fell in love with mojitos in the back streets of Barcelona’s Gothic quarter. There, in a dark tiny bar barely larger than a closet, a man stood behind a counter with bags of ice, …

It might have a French name (which stands for “water of life” as well as describing a style of fruit brandy) but Eau-de-Vie feels more like a 1930s-style American bar, complete with dark wood, great …