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Where to go for a great cocktail
With the weather warming up, Chris Carter goes in search of the best places around the world to order your favourite cocktail.
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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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.
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