Where to go for a great cocktail

published 3 June 2016

796-La-Guarida-big — La Guarida's "gorgeous" roof-top bar in Havana specialises in rum cocktails

Havana

It has recently added a "gorgeous" roof-top bar specialising in rum and fruit-based "tiki" cocktails. The drinks menu has been co-designed by Scotty Schuder, owner of Paris's Dirty Dick's Rum Bar, and Andrew Loudon, a past winner of the International Havana Club Cocktail Grand Prix.

Concordia No 418, Gervasio y Escobar, Havana

Buenos Aires

The cocktail menu tells a familiar story being played out across Argentina: American-style cocktails, such as Martinis, have been pushed out in favour of something a little more local. El Pato is one such favourite a "potent mix of sweet and dry vermouth, gin, Campari, Cointreau and Kirsch", invented in 1954 by Argentina's most famous champion bartender, Salvatore "Pichin" Policastro.

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Avenida Callao 501, Buenos Aires

London

Here, you'll find everything from entry level Rathbone to rare 1950s Taplows and over 400 labels in between, including Finland's small-batch Kyr. There are also more than two dozen tonic waters to choose from, as well as a cocktail menu featuring Aviations and Vespers.

252 High Holborn, London

Mexico City

The menu "spotlights the flavours of Latin America" and sources local ingredients when coming up with its creations. Mafer Tejada is the resident bartender and the first woman to win the accolade of Mexico's World Class Bartender of the Year in 2015.

Alvaro Obregn, 106 Roma Norte, 06700

London's booze cruise

The bus took usfrom Soho to Regent's Park to Aldgate East,from the top-end Meli White House hotelbar to Merchant House, "a hidden gin den in themiddle of the City".

But for Baker, the best wassaved for last. "Aperitivo is a speakeasy-style ginand vermouth specialist, hidden away above theOliver Conquest pub on the City-East End border."It retains "the feel of a local boozer" and has a"pick-and-mix" menu for building the ideal negroni.

£60 per person, including drinks GinJourney.com

Chris Carter spent three glorious years reading English literature on the beautiful Welsh coast at Aberystwyth University. Graduating in 2005, he left for the University of York to specialise in Renaissance literature for his MA, before returning to his native Twickenham, in southwest London. He joined a Richmond-based recruitment company, where he worked with several clients, including the Queen’s bank, Coutts, as well as the super luxury, Dorchester-owned Coworth Park country house hotel, near Ascot in Berkshire.

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