Cocktails & Bars
Cocktails & Bars
Review: Bartenders Lounge, Aberdeen
Class' Scotland reviewer Blythe Robertson heads to one of the UK's hotbeds of talent - Aberdeen.
—27 July, 2023
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Review: Malo, Glasgow
CLASS' Scotland-based reviewer Blythe Robertson heads to Glasgow to try out one of its latest launches.
—17 July, 2023
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How to make an Amaretto Sour
All you need to know about this 70s almondy classic.
—11 July, 2023
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How to make a Manhattan
All you need to know about this stirred down whiskey-vermouth drink from New York.
—11 July, 2023
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How to make The Sun Tavern's Bizarre Love Triangle
Tart, sweet, woody
—11 July, 2023
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Review: Medicine Nights, Birmingham
Class' Midlands reviewer Ellen Manning stops by Medicine's latest location.
—10 July, 2023
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How to make an Espresso Martini
All you need to know about this caffine-spiked party starter.
—06 July, 2023
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How to make an Old Fashioned
All you need to know about the original whiskey cocktail.
—05 July, 2023
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The best food in bars? This is our winner
This award recognises the venue that offers delicious food which complements the drinks and enhances the bar experience – no bar does that better than Tayer + Elementary in London’s Old Street.
—04 July, 2023
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Monica Berg's bar diary: Summer
Monica Berg opens her diary to summer, when watermelons come into season.
—03 July, 2023
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How to make a Negroni
All you need to know about the Italian, three-part classic.
—29 June, 2023
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CLASS Summer 2023 magazine launches
Access the digital magazine here. Not subscribed? Bartenders can sign up for a digital or hard copy here. INSIDE CLASS
—21 June, 2023
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Who is the CBA's Bartender of the Year?
Our Bartender of the Year (sponsored by Savoia Americano) finalists are four of the best drinks-makers in the UK. Mia Kumari - at the American Bar at the Savoy of time of voting - and now Satan's Whiskers took the most votes of any across the country.
—13 June, 2023
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The Class Bar Awards' Best Bar in the UK
The new Best Bar in the North category at the Class Bar Awards was off to a promising start with a strong list of contenders. Schofield's in Manchester prevailed, then went on to win Best Bar in the UK.
—13 June, 2023
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Check out the Class Bar Awards' New Bar of the Year
Passing Fancies took our award for Best Bar in the Midlands & East Anglia (sponsored by The Busker) and also the nationwide gong for New Bar of the Year (sponsored by Hapusa Gin).
—09 June, 2023
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Hear all about the CBA's Best Bar in Scotland
In the Class Bar Awards' new Best Bar in Scotland & Northern Ireland category (sponsored by The Busker), Glasgow and Edinburgh fought it out, with Hey Palu taking the honours.
—08 June, 2023
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And the Best Bar in Wales and the West is....
With bars from Cardiff, Bournemouth, Bristol and St Ives in Cornwall making up our top four, this new Wales and West category at the Class Bar Awards was very competitive, with Lab 22 prevailing.
—06 June, 2023
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Which bar was named Best in London & the Southeast?
London is world famous for its bar scene, so to win here - in the CBA's Best Bar in London & the Southeast (sponsored by The Busker) category - is big. With a final four of award-winning bars from some of the biggest names in the business, the reliably brilliant Satan's Whiskers won out.
—05 June, 2023
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Review: Crossroads
Crossroads was among the few good things to emerge from the pandemic, a compact, subterranean cocktail bar in a former Victorian toilet in Camden. Its new-ish home on Newington Green is comparatively palatial, but with all the charm and pioneering spirit of the original – a quintessential neighbourhood bar with a sustainable, forward-thinking approach.
—01 June, 2023
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The CBAs' Hotel Bar of the Year 2023
With so many hotel bars in the conversation to be our favourites, making a finalists’ list of four in the Hotel Bar of the Year (sponsored by Everleaf Drinks) category is an achievement in itself.
—31 May, 2023
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Meet our Bar Manager of the Year
To many the biggest individual award of the Class Bar Awards, Bar Manager of the Year sponsored by Italicus, was won by James Wheeler, a finalist in the category last year.
—31 May, 2023
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Review: Lunar, Glasgow
Glasgow’s food and drink scene continues its upward trend with the arrival of Lunar, a wine and cocktail bar on the south side of the city. From the team behind popular West End beer shop Grunting Growler, the focus is on fresh flavours from natural wines and seasonally-driven cocktails.
—31 May, 2023
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Review: Velvet at Corinthia London
Velvet was one of the big launches of the last six months. Hamish Smith dropped by this spring to review Corinthia London's latest bar.
—23 May, 2023
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Review: The Commons Club, Edinburgh
CLASS' Scotland reviewer Blythe Robertson pops by The Commons Club
—22 May, 2023