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Class Bar Awards 2025

Cocktails & Bars

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
Opium's Fortunella Margarita

Cocktails & Bars

How to make Opium's Fortunella Margarita
Fresh, bittersweet, citrusy
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22 February, 2024
Cresent City, Scarfes Bar

Cocktails & Bars

How to make Scarfes Bar's Cresent City
Bitter, boozy and sweet
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19 February, 2024
Cereal Killer, Cocktail Bottle Shop

Cocktails & Bars

How to make The Bottle Cocktail Shop's Cereal Killer
Spiced, citrusy, fruity
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15 February, 2024
Track 50, Speak in Code

Cocktails & Bars

How to make Speak in Code's Track 50
Herbaceous, citrus, complex
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15 February, 2024
How to make Babur's Currytini

Cocktails & Bars

How to make Babur's Currytini
Vibrant, spicy, complex
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14 February, 2024
How to make The American Bar's Bell Pepper Cocktail

Cocktails & Bars

How to make The American Bar at Gleneagles' Bell Pepper Cocktail
Sweet, tangy, spicy
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08 February, 2024
La Louisiane

Cocktails & Bars

Classics: La Louisiane
Clinton Cawood unearths the lesser-known New Orleans classic La Louisiane.
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06 February, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

Modern classics: the Penicillin

The poster-cocktail for modern-era classic creation is the Penicillin by Sam Ross. Clinton Cawood brings the potted history. 
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05 February, 2024
How to make Satan's Whiskers The Ancestor

Cocktails & Bars

How to make Satan's Whiskers' The Ancestor
Sweet, spiced, warm
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02 February, 2024
How to make Eve Bar's Perfect, Three Cherries

Cocktails & Bars

How to make Eve Bar's Perfect, Three Cherries
Cherry, strong, lavish
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31 January, 2024
Irish Coffee, Swift

Cocktails & Bars

Classics: The Irish Coffee
The Irish Coffee is the latest cocktail under Clinton Cawood's microscope. He brings us the history and this hot-cold classic.
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30 January, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

Job advert: Bar manager at Baudry Greene
Baudry Greene, a bar modelled on the European cafés of 20th-century Europe updated for a 21st-century London, is looking for a bar manager with experience in high end spirits.
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30 January, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

CLASS Bar Awards 2024 finalists revealed

CLASS is delighted to announce the finalists of the CLASS Bar Awards 2024, ahead of the ceremony at Battersea Arts Centre in London on April 16th.
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30 January, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

How To Make Bar Antoine's The Pursuit
Balsamic, tropical, harmonious
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30 January, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

International spotlight: Class talks to Native in Singapore
Fresh back from Singapore, Hamish Smith has the questions and Vijay Mudaliar from Native the answers
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26 January, 2024
The Class Bar Awards 2024

Cocktails & Bars

Save the date: Class Bar Awards 2024 to take place on April 16
Class can announce that the Class Bar Awards 2024 will take place on April 16th at Battersea Arts Centre in South London.
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16 January, 2024
Red Light

Cocktails & Bars

Review: Golden Crane, Bristol
Our Bristol-based reviewer Mark Taylor stops by what used to be city favourite Red Light. He gives his assessment of the all-new Golden Crane. 
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16 January, 2024
How to make Apothecary East's Cerebral

Cocktails & Bars

How to make Apothecary East's Cerebral
Calming, woody, bitter
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10 January, 2024

Cocktails & Bars

Review: Satyr, Edinburgh
Scotland reviewer Blythe Robertson finds another gem in Satyr in Leith.
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08 January, 2024
Three Sheets Soho

Cocktails & Bars

Noel and Max Venning to open Three Sheets Soho
Three Sheets' Noel and Max Venning have announced they will open a second site in Soho in March 2024.
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04 January, 2024

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

Cocktails & Bars

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