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Class Bar Awards 2025

Cocktails & Bars

How to make The American Bar's Gooseberry

Cocktails & Bars

How to make The American Bar at Gleneagles' Gooseberry
Refreshing, sweet, tart
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27 June, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

How to make Vesper Bar's Sunkissed Summers
Aloe vera, citrus foam
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25 June, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

How to make Babur's Himalayan Spring
Spirit-forward, sweet, zingy
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20 June, 2024
How to make Samba Room's WABI-SABI

Cocktails & Bars

How to make Samba Room's Wabi-Sabi
Light and floral
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18 June, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

How to make Vesper Bar's Morning Sunshine
Herbal, fruity, floral 
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06 June, 2024
How to make BiBo's Strangers in Scotland

Cocktails & Bars

How to make BiBo's Strangers in Scotland
Fruity & floral notes, herbal, fresh
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31 May, 2024
Zest

Cocktails & Bars

International spotlight: CLASS explores Zest in Seoul
South Korean bar Zest has quickly built an international reputation, debuting in The World’s 50 Best Bars in October. Hamish Smith learns all about the bar from its co-founder, Demie Kim.
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22 May, 2024

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