Classic cocktail recipes

Serving cocktails is a sure-fire way of getting your guests up and on the dance floor

We’ve come up with a selection of stylish and highly sophisticated recipes from some of Britain's smartest bars and hotels...

Classic Champagne cocktail

Recipe from: Indigo Yard, 7 Charlotte Lane, Edinburgh

• Brown sugar cube
• 1/3 measure of quality brandy
• Champagne

Absolutely crushed

recipe from: Lab, Old Compton Street, London, W1

• 1.5oz Absolut Citron
• 3-4 kumquats
• 2 teaspoons soft brown sugar
• ½oz lime juice
• Float Manderine Napoleon
• Float gomme

Serve in large rocks glass over crushed ice

Gibson

Recipe from: The Morrison Hotel, Ormonde Quay, Dublin 1

• 1/3 Martini Bianco
• 1/3 Gordon's Gin
• 1/3 Smirnoff

Serve in a Martini glass, either on the rocks or straight up.

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