I am often asked what my favourite cocktail, bar, spirit etc is and to be honest my answer is always a bit dull. “I don’t have a favourite” I will reply, “it depends on what I am in the mood for”. There are however, bars, cocktails and spirits that I return to over and over again because they really are very, very, good. If you’re looking for something new to try, these all certainly come highly recommended! Click on the product/bar to read my review.
My Top 3′s
I am often asked what my favourite cocktail, bar, spirit etc is and to be honest my answer is always a bit dull. “I don’t have a favourite” I will reply, “it depends on what I am in the mood for”. There are however, bars, cocktails and spirits that I return to over and over again because they really are very, very, good. If you’re looking for something new to try, these all certainly come highly recommended! Click on the product/bar to read my review.
Top 3(ish) London Cocktail Bars
69 Colebrooke Row
Callooh Callay
Happiness Forgets
Zetter Townhouse
Top 3 Hotel Bars
American Bar, Savoy Hotel, London
Coburg Bar, Connaught Hotel, London
The Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Top 3 Classic Cocktails
Martinez
Old Fashioned
Sazerac
Top 3 Cocktail Blogs
Bitters and Twisted
Billy’s Booze Blog
Cocktaillovers
The Gin Blog
Social and Cocktail
Summer Fruit Cup
The Institute for Alcoholic Experimentation
I know that’s 7 but I couldn’t decide!
Top 3 Absinthe
Clandestine (Buy it here)
La Maison Fontaine (Buy it here)
Jade 1901 (Buy it here)
Top 3 ‘Classically Styled’ Dry Gins
No. 3 (Buy it here)
Sipsmith (Buy it here)
Tanqueray No. 10 (Buy it here)
Top 3 Navy Strength Gins
Professor Cornelius Ampleforth’s Navy Strength Bathtub Gin (Buy it here)
Hayman’s Royal Dock Gin (Buy it here)
FEW Standard Issue Gin (Buy it here)
Top 3 ‘Other’ Gins
Gin Mare
Hayman’s Old Tom (Buy it here)
Hayman’s Sloe Gin (Buy it here)
Top 3 Rums for Sipping
El Dorado 15yr (Buy it here)
Flor de Cana 18yr (Buy it here)
Plantation Barbados XO
Top 3 White Rums
St Nicholas Abbey White Rum (Buy it here)
El Dorado 3yr (Buy it here)
Plantation Three Stars White Rum
Top 3 Dark Rums
Gosling’s Black Seal (Buy it here)
Myer’s Dark (Buy it here)
Skipper Rum (Buy it here)
Top 3 Bourbon for Mixing
77 Whisky
Angel’s Envy Bourbon
Maker’s 46
Top 3 Bourbon for Sipping
Blanton’s Gold edition
Elijah Craig 12yr (Buy it here)
Elmer T Lee Single Barrel (Buy it here)
Top 3 Rye Whisky
FEW Rye Whiskey (Buy it here)
Rittenhouse Rye (Buy it here)
Sazerac Rye (Buy it here)
Top 3 Scotch Whisky
Glen Ord 30yr (Buy it here)
Lagavulin 16yr (Buy it here)
The Balvenie Signature (Buy it here)
Top 3 Tequila
Arette Blanco (Buy it here)
Herradura Reposado (Buy it here)
Olmeca Altos Reposado (Buy it here)
Top 3 Bitters
Dr Adam Elmegirab Bitterss (Buy it here)
Dr Adam Elmegirab Bitterss (Buy it here)
London Cocktail Society Bitters #1 (Buy it here)
Top 3 Non-Flavoured Vodkas
Vestal Vodka (Buy it here)
Purity Vodka (Buy it here)
Finlandia Vodka (Buy it here)
Top 3 Flavoured Vodkas
Black Moth Truffle Vodka (Buy it here)
Chase Marmalade (Buy it here)
Sipsmith Damson Vodka (Buy it here)
Top 3 Mezcal
Sombra Mezcal (Buy it here)
Siete Misterios (Buy it here)
Ven a Mi Mezcal (Buy it here)
Top 3 Orange Liqueurs
Cointreau (Buy it here)
Grand Marnier (Buy it here)
Pierre Ferrand Dry Curacao
Top 3 Vermouth
Antica Formula (Buy it here)
Cocchi Americano
Punt E Mes (Buy it here)
Top 3 Things That Didn’t Fit In Anywhere Else!
Mozart Dry Chocolate Spirit (Buy it here)
Kamm and Sons Ginseng Spirit (Buy it here)
Smoke and Oakum’s Gunpowder Rum