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Mojito recipe (Barcelona style) Mojito recipe (Barcelona style)

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, …

Eau-de-Vie – Darlinghurst Eau-de-Vie – Darlinghurst

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 …

Lynchburg Lemonade cocktail recipe Lynchburg Lemonade cocktail recipe

To be perfectly honest, I never even heard of this cocktail until I had it at Ivy. Named after the Tennessee town that gave us Jack Daniels, this cocktail combines bourbon, Cointreau, lemon juice and …

Paloma cocktail recipe Paloma cocktail recipe

When it comes to Mexican cocktails most people think of margaritas – yet according to Christophe Lehouz, the owner of Pocket Bar, in Mexico it’s the Paloma cocktail that’s arguably more popular.
It could be because …

La Dura Vita cocktail recipe La Dura Vita cocktail recipe

The history behind many liqueurs sounds like something out of a Hollywood script, filled with alchemists and monks tinkering with herbs, roots and flowers in order to make distilled elixirs – and when you taste …

Tiki cocktail recipes (and the winner of last week’s Appleton Estate rum competition) Tiki cocktail recipes (and the winner of last week’s Appleton Estate rum competition)

It would be irresponsible of us to announce the winner of last week’s competition, in which a tiki mug from Tiki Farm and three bottles of Appleton Estate rum were up for grabs, without also …