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Class Bar Awards 2025

Cocktails & Bars

Cocktails & Bars

Bar openings you may have missed: inside Nessa Soho
Hamish Smith features a recent launch that went a little under the radar: Nessa in Soho.
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04 January, 2024
Charlie Brown's

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Review: Charlie Brown's, Glasgow
Class' Scotland bar reviewer Blythe Robertson is in Glasgow to check out Charlie Brown's. 
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01 January, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

How to make The Coral Room's Finnegan
Spicy, herbal, tart fruit
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20 December, 2023

Cocktails & Bars

Review: Atelier Coupette, London
Hamish Smith drops in on Soho's latest cocktail bar - Atelier Coupette 
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20 December, 2023

Cocktails & Bars

Winter drinks - but not as you know them
Tyler Zielinski looks at some alternatives to traditional cold-weather drinks.
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19 December, 2023
Nico de Soto

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Nico de Soto on returning to London and opening Wacky Wombat
Globetrotting bartender Nico de Soto of famed bars Mace in New York and Danico in Paris has landed in London. Hamish Smith is at Wacky Wombat to hear about his new digs under Daroco in Soho.
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19 December, 2023
Satan's Whiskers

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Mastering the bar experience: Kevin Armstrong on ten years of Satan's Whiskers

Hamish Smith takes a seat next to Kevin Armstrong at Satan’s Whiskers to hear one of the lesser-told stories of bar success.
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13 December, 2023
How to make a Paloma

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How to make a Paloma

An introduction to this refreshing tequila long drink.
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11 December, 2023
How to make a Boulevardier

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How to make a Boulevardier
The background and lowdown on America's answer to the Negroni.
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11 December, 2023
Remember the Maine

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Classics: Remember the Maine
Clinton Cawood unearths the dusty old classic Remember the Maine, which in constitution is not dissimilar to the Manhattan.
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04 December, 2023

Cocktails & Bars

Modern classics: The Old Cuban
Clinton Cawood's latest investigations into modern classics takes him to Audrey Saunders' Old Cuban.
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04 December, 2023

Cocktails & Bars

Classics: The story of the Corpse Reviver #2
Clinton Cawood takes a trip down memory lane with the Corpse Reviver #2.Bright and bracing, this century-old classic certainly lives up to its name, having brought countless drinkers back to life over the years, particularly in bygone times when a morning cocktail was a more common means of undoing the effects of the night before. It’s a revivifying drink at any time of the day though, for those suffering near-fatal hangovers or not.
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01 December, 2023

Cocktails & Bars

How to make Finders Keepers' Forest Fruit Sbagliato
Vibrant, bittersweet, fruity
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23 November, 2023

Cocktails & Bars

How to make Atelier Coupette's Spiced Melon Margarita
Spicy, citrusy, smoke
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23 November, 2023

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Havana Club Cocktail Maestros Q&A

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14 November, 2023

Cocktails & Bars

Review: Rum Ex Machina, Manchester
Reviewer for the north, Dave Marsland stops by a bar of one of the biggest venues to launch this year - Diecast. 
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13 November, 2023
How to make The Alchemist's Pea-Cante

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How to make The Alchemist's Pea-Cante
Spicy, serious, agave
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09 November, 2023
How to make The Absent Ear's Pond Stretchers

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How to make The Absent Ear's Pond Stretchers
Enchanting, wistful, vini-great
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01 November, 2023
How to make Park Hill's Pearl Martini

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How to make The Pearl at Park Hill's Pearl Martini
Rich, textured, complex
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01 November, 2023

Cocktails & Bars

Review: Red Light, Manchester
CLASS reviewer for the North, Dave Marsland, stops by Red Light in Manchester.
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31 October, 2023

Cocktails & Bars

Review: Silures, Cardiff
CLASS' new Wales bars reviewer Rachel Hendry hits up Silures in Cardiff.
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26 October, 2023

Cocktails & Bars

First look at Jack Wallis, Martyn 'Simo' Simpson and Chris Tanner's new Soho bar
Chris Tanner, Jack Wallis and Martyn ‘Simo’ Simpson, the guys behind Denmark Street’s latest opening, The Dram, want you to have fun.
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19 October, 2023
How to make Apothecary East and East London Liquor Co.'s Fig & Date Old Fashioned

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How to make Apothecary East's Fig & Date Old Fashioned
Warm, rich, sweet
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17 October, 2023

Cocktails & Bars

Review: Lucky 7, Birmingham
Ellen Manning passes by Rob Wood and Kyndra Vorster’s latest Birmingham creation.
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17 October, 2023

Cocktails & Bars

Review: Nipperkin, London

Tyler Zielinksi reviews one of the big new launches of the year - Nipperkin at 20 Berkeley.
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12 October, 2023

Cocktails & Bars

Review: Mama Funki and the rise of the neighbourhood bar

Are neighbourhood bars now as good as their inner city contemporaries? Hamish Smith hasn't got far to go to find out.
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11 October, 2023
How to make Arcade Food Hall's Rhubarb Americano

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How to make Arcade Food Hall's Rhubarb Americano

Bright, refreshing, bittersweet 
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26 September, 2023
Negroni classical

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Classics: Making sense of the history of the Negroni
Our series on Classics stops in on the Negroni. How much of this old cocktail's yarn is true, we'll let cocktail writer Clinton Cawood be the judge
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26 September, 2023

Cocktails & Bars

Century Bar launches menu inspired by Scottish countryside
The Gleneagles Hotel’s Century Bar has launched The Great Adventure Book, drawing on the Scottish countryside as inspiration.
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21 September, 2023

Cocktails & Bars

How to make The Dark Horse's Infinite Daiquiri

Photo: Amanda Wan Winchester
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21 September, 2023