6 Festive Cocktail Recipes From Our Favourite Bars

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6 Festive Cocktail Recipes From Our Favourite Bars

Words by Emma Pradella and Finlay Renwick

10 hours ago

SOMA

01. Santra Paloma

Ingredients

  • 35ml mezcal

  • 15ml dry vermouth

  • 35ml clementine cordial (see batch recipe below)

  • 2 slices of green chilli

Clementine cordial

  • 1l clementine juice

  • 500g caster sugar

  • 250ml Supasawa

Mix together well and decant into a bottle, then keep refrigerated.

Method

Shake all the ingredients, strain into a highball glass and fill with ice. Top with light tonic and garnish with a clementine wedge.

Bar Leone

02. Caffè Paradiso

Ingredients

  • 60ml cold brew coffee

  • 20ml sweet vermouth

  • 20ml Scotch whisky

  • 7.5ml honey syrup (3 parts honey: 1 part water)

  • 2.5ml Bénédictine

  • Float of salted cream (for 1000g of double cream, mix 1g of sea salt)

  • 1 cardamom, grated

Method

Pour all the ingredients into an Irish coffee glass or your favourite cocktail glass, and add the cream on top, then garnish with the grated cardamom.

Three Sheets

03. Dirty Martini

Ingredients

  • 50ml koseret vodka (see recipe below)

  • 100ml olive oil vodka (see recipe below)

  • 10ml Picpoul de pinet

  • 1ml sugar syrup

  • 1g fleur de sel

Koseret vodka

  • 2.5g rare koseret tea

  • 50ml vodka

Infuse at room temperature for 30 minutes.

Olive oil vodka

  • 20ml olive oil

  • 100ml vodka

Mix together, freeze and strain when the olive oil has solidified (around 2 hours).

Method

Add all ingredients to a cocktail glass with ice and stir thoroughly. Strain into a chilled coupe glass and garnish with three olives on a cocktail stick.

Osip

04. Fig Leaf Negroni

Ingredients

  • 40ml gin (better a floral gin, light in juniper)

  • 25ml Cocchi Storico vermouth

  • 25ml fig-infused Campari

Method

Chill and dilute, then serve over an ice cube. Garnish with a coin cutout from a fig leaf. For the fig-leaf Campari, infuse a bottle of Campari for 2 days with 5-6 fig leaves.

Town

05. Dill Boy Martini

Ingredients

  • 0.1g sea salt

  • 25ml chilled mineral water

  • 10ml Noilly Prat dry vermouth

  • 20ml Aalborg dill akvavit

  • 50ml Luksusowa vodka (or another potato vodka)

Method

Scale the recipe as required and bottle. Place the bottle in the freezer for 2-3 hours before serving. Serve in small martini glass (approx. 4-5.5oz). Garnish with a sprig of fresh dill or a few drops of dill oil.

The Palmerston

06. The Lord Burnsie

Ingredients

  • 50ml Adelphi private stock

  • 35ml Port of Leith oloroso sherry

  • 4 dashes Angostura bitters

Method

Combine the ingredients in a shaker over ice and stir. Serve in a chilled Nick & Nora glass. Garnish with an orange twist.

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