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Class Bar Awards 2025

Cocktails & Bars

Cocktails & Bars

Classic cocktails: The Saturn
Clinton Cawood tells us the story of a classic cocktail which was created in the 1960s and unearthered in 2010.
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21 May, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

How to make Vesper Bar's Thunderstorm
Velvety, herbal, peppery 
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20 May, 2024
How to make Opium's Opium n°10

Cocktails & Bars

How to make Opium's Opium n°10
Refreshing. fruity. citrusy
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15 May, 2024
London Calling

Cocktails & Bars

Classic cocktails: the story of the London Calling
This British classic is a relative newcomer - Clinton Cawood bring us its short history.
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15 May, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

How to make Finders Keepers' Date Night Pickle
Dark, vibrant, bittersweet
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13 May, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

Classic cocktails: the story of the Boulevardier

Clinton Cawood comes with a potted history of this Negroni-like whiskey classic. 
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13 May, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

How to make Lucy Wong's Yangtze Margarita
Tart, sharp, smoky
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07 May, 2024
Bar Lotus

Cocktails & Bars

Review: Bar Lotus, London
Clinton Cawood reviews one of Kingsland Road's latest cocktail haunts. 
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06 May, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

How to make Los Mochis's Oaxacan Midori Sour

Melon, grassy, green pepper
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24 April, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

Spring drinks: making cocktails with Rhubarb
As the season’s bounty becomes apparent across parks, woodlands and verges, the garden offers a chance to flirt with early emerging and versatile rhubarb. Anistatia Miller & Jared Brown have the perfect pairings.
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23 April, 2024
Finders Keepers

Cocktails & Bars

Review: Finders Keepers, Manchester
Reviewer for the north, Dave Marsland, visits one of Manchester's more significant recent launches, Finders Keepers. 
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23 April, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

Review: Verve Lounge, Birmingham
Midlands reviewer, Ellen Manning, stops by Verve Lounge in Birmingham. 
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19 April, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

London, Birmingham and Edinburgh star at the CLASS Bar Awards 2024
Satan’s Whiskers took the title of Best Bar in the UK sponsored by The Lost Explorer at the CLASS Bar Awards 2024, which took place last night at Battersea Arts Centre in London.
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15 April, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

Review: Port of Leith Distillery, Edinburgh
Our Scotland reviewer Blythe Robertson drops in on The Port of Leith Distillery for his latest review.
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10 April, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

Review: Dear Sailor, Manchester
Manchester based writer Dave Marsland makes landing at Dear Sailor in Spinningfields for his latest review. 
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08 April, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

How bars attract homegrown talent

Recruiting career staffin UK hospitality has never been more hard work. But Ellen Manning says, despite the challenges, the right incentives could help nurture the next generation.
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03 April, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

How to make SO Bar's Pick Me Up
Indulgent, fruity, caramel
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02 April, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

Iain McPherson on the all-new Edinburgh Bar Show
Hamish Smith catches up with Iain McPherson on the all-new Edinburgh Bar Show, which takes place 8-10 April
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02 April, 2024
How to make Burlock Rum Room's Sleipner’s Folly

Cocktails & Bars

How to make Burlock Rum Room's Sleipner’s Folly

Fruity, aromatic, citric
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02 April, 2024
The Queenie Martini

Cocktails & Bars

How to make Kiki Lounge's Queenie Martini
Crisp, oceanic, clean
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28 March, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

Review: Hamish Smith heads out on Britain's "most ordinary bar crawl"
A high-profile appointment at a high street bar group turns Hamish Smith's lapsed attention to mainstream venues.
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25 March, 2024

Sponsored Content

Master of Malt Trade launches the Clubman Trophy
Master of Malt Trade, the industry led wholesaler, are launching their own way to recognise those who might get overlooked in the hospitality industry - the Clubman Trophy.
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15 March, 2024
Bea Bradsell

Cocktails & Bars

Bea Bradsell on the real story of the Espresso Martini

To celebrate Espresso Martini Day, Bea Bradsell - recently appointed on-trade director at Glasgow-based agency The Drink Cabinet -  shares the story behind her father Dick Bradsell's coffee-vodka classic. 
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15 March, 2024
Three Sheets

Cocktails & Bars

East heads west - the journey to Three Sheets the sequel

Brothers Max and Noel Venning are taking their established-in-Dalston Three Sheets name to a second London site, in Soho. Hamish Smith finds out what to expect from the entrepreneurial duo.
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13 March, 2024

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The new face of Schweppes
Schweppes has appointed Josh Linfitt as its Prestige GB brand ambassador. He explains what his new role entails and what it means to him.
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07 March, 2024
How to make Fitz's Bar Compass Club

Cocktails & Bars

How to make Fitz's Bar Compass Club

Frothy, short, fruity
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05 March, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

How to make Velvet by Salvatore Calabrese's Above the Clouds
Dry, bracing, fun
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05 March, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

Ticket registration for the Class Bar Awards goes live
UK-based bartenders can now register for tickets for the CLASS Bar Awards 2024. 
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04 March, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

How to make Henson's Bar's PBS Gimlet
Spice, nuts, fruit
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22 February, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

Oriole’s long-awaited comeback announced
Award-winning cocktail bar and music venue Oriole will make its return this March, with a three-month pop-up to launch in Covent Garden ahead of a full reopening.
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22 February, 2024