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Where to Find the Best Christmas Cocktails in London

Where to Find the Best Christmas Cocktails
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‘Tis the season to be jolly so why not indulge in these Christmas cocktails full of festive flavours and holiday cheer?

Words Jada De Cinque 

London’s best Christmas cocktails

Novotel Hotel

Where to Find the Best Christmas Cocktails

Novotel has teamed up with Sipsmith to launch one of the most excessively festive Christmas cocktails you’ll find this winter. Guests to Novotel hotels across the UK can get their mitts on a hot gin and tonic drink that tastes and smells like Christmas in a cup. Infused with pine needles, cinnamon sticks and garnished with a fire-smoked pinecone, the ‘Taste of Christmas’ cocktail was created with the award-winning Sipsmith London Dry Gin and has been designed to smell and taste just like a Christmas Tree might… were it drinkable. Alongside this, a hot Sipsmith menu is available to guests, including a Hot Winter Gin and Tonic, Mulled Sloe Gin and a Hot Gingerbread Gin and Tonic.

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Frenchie Covent Garden

The ‘Chapters of Frenchie’ menu at Frenchie Covent Garden takes drinkers on a whistle-stop tour of the three cities – London, Paris and New York – that have inspired chef and owner Greg Marchand throughout his career. Each cocktail tells a story of the city, incorporating a different spirit that has become synonymous with that city. Highlights include the Fall in Manhattan which puts an autumnal twist on the traditional Manhattan, the M’s London, a martini-style cocktail based on Genever – the grandfather of gin, and the Carthusian Truth, a refreshing cocktail based on vodka and aromatic Riesling vermouth.

frenchieconventgarden.com

The Bloomsbury Club Bar

Dingle All The Way

If you’re looking for a cosy hidden gem to warm the cockles this Christmas look no further than the Bloomsbury Club Bar. They’ll be serving a new menu of festive hot cocktails and gin Christmas creations. Forget mulled wine, snowballs and eggnog – this cocktail menu infuses unexpected flavours of the season with award-winning small-batch Dingle Gin and Dingle Single Malt Whiskey. With ingredients such as homemade pine needle soda and caramel pecan tincture, the cocktails promise a contemporary take on the hot toddy and gin Christmas tipple.

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Rail House Café at NovaWhere to Find the Best Christmas Cocktails

Be prepared for a Fizztive Christmas at the Rail House Cafe in Victoria. With warm summer days long gone and the city’s love of gin cocktails at an all-time high, the team at Rail House Café in Nova has created a highly-Instagrammable, luxurious gin-based cocktail to help keep thirst at bay this December. The Berry Fizztive cocktail is an exclusive blend of Christmas cheer and festive sparkle with its delicious mix of warming cranberry liqueur and sloe gin, topped off with crisp, chilled Prosecco; perfect for a cosy winter night in the heart of SW1.

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The Meet

Where to Find the Best Christmas Cocktails

This December, vegan pop-up The Meet has teamed up with Baileys Almande to create decadent vegan treats for London’s Baileys lovers. Chef Dominic Taylor has used Bailey’s Almande to create a warm and rich Bakewell tart hot chocolate which is served with a shortbread crumb rim, a dollop of Raspberry Jam, lashings of dairy-free cream and adorned with shavings of vegan chocolate. For dessert, they will also be serving a luxuriously silky Baileys Almande and ginger pannacotta alongside an electric mix of vegan cocktails.

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Cahoots

Where to Find the Best Christmas Cocktails

Surround yourself with tinsel and fairy lights galore at London’s most exciting cocktail bar. At Cahoots, guests will embark on a unique and immersive 1940’s cocktail bar experience featuring a seasonal special whiskey-based cocktail, aptly called Jack Frost Tippling As He Goes. The tipple, made with Gentleman Jack Bourbon Tennessee whiskey, Martini Riserva Speciale Bitter aperitif, Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey whiskey liqueur, and mulled wine will be on offer for guests to sip whilst enjoying the cosy Christmas decorations.

cahoots-london.com

Barts Cocktail Bar

Where to Find the Best Christmas Cocktails

In Chelsea, Barts speakeasy will be offering a delicious hot cocktail perfect for Londoners who are looking to escape the chill. The cosy hidden cocktail bar, which requires a secret password for entry, will be offering a twist on a mulled wine serve. The drink, called Uncle Barts’ Whiskey Winter Warmer is made with a Woodford Reserve mulled wine that has been infused with festive spices, and then topped with decadent creme de mure, before being presented to guests in a charming teacup with a garnish of smouldering cinnamon – delicious!

barts-london.com

Buns & Buns

Where to Find the Best Christmas Cocktails

As the cold nights draw in, nothing beats a winter warmer by the fire. New Covent Garden restaurant, Buns & Buns will be serving Mulled Wine with a Black Cherry Twist. Served hot, made with rum, cherry liqueur, cherry tea syrup, lemon juice, the smell alone is enough to make your night feel exceptionally festive.

bunsandbuns.com

Native Restaurant

Native will be getting into the festive spirit by shaking up an unmissable Chestnut Espresso Martini. Also on the menu is a selection of English wines and botanic-infused cocktails, such as the Sweet Clover (vodka, lime and ginger beer), and the Carrot and Sea Buckthorn Negroni with English Vermouth – don’t miss out on these delightful drinks.

eatnative.co.uk 

Last Nights of Havana

Last Nights of Havana serves a creamy and warming concoction of the notoriously festive Eggnog cocktail. The Crema de Vie is perfectly infused with Bacardi Ocho Anos Rum, Pistachio syrup, Port and Sherry, topped with Nutmeg and is a suitably rich tipple for the festive season, with plenty of spice and a good kick.

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Beaufort Bar, The Savoy

For a spritz of festive fizz, The Beaufort Bar’s Overture comprises exactly that. The new menu features a refined offering including Champagnes and sparkling wine, expertly prepared mixed drinks and a well-chosen, in-depth whisky selection. The beautiful Overture combines Grey Goose Vodka, cucumber syrup, hibiscus kirsch and tonic, and is topped up with Perrier Jouet Belle Epoque Champagne.

thesavoylondon.com

Skylight

Where to Find the Best Christmas Cocktails

Skylight’s cosy Christmas cocktail – the Skylight Cobbler – is the perfect tipple of choice before skating the night away or getting toasty in one of Skylight’s igloos. Blending Bombay Sapphire, 30et40, lemon juice, peach syrup, sugar syrup and topped off with plum bitters, this festive tipple will take the chill out of any winter evening.

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OSLO

OSLO’s new cocktail menu is brimming with seasonal spices and fruity twists. Guests can while away the cold evenings with the Winter Spritz, a heady mix of Tanqueray gin, and Prosecco with the comforting notes of gingerbread syrup with the fresh zing of grapefruit.

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Quaglino’s

The mixology maestros at Quaglino’s bar have created a special Christmas cocktail for the festive season. Classic, creamy and comforting, Bianco Natale! consists of Cointreau, cacao white, yellow Chartreuse, lemon juice, egg white and chocolate bitters with a dark chocolate garnish.

quaglinos-restaurant.com

Blade

Oat

This Oat-Nog from Blade is a vegan twist on the classic festive tipple. It combines Stagg Jr. Bourbon or Foursquare Dominus Rum (your choice), maple syrup, vanilla bitters, Oatly oat cream, Oatly barista oat milk, organic cinnamon and is garnished with a luxuriously soft date stuffed with pecans.

bladesoho.co.uk 

Ritorno, Chelsea

The Negroni is the perfect winter drink, and its classic blend of vermouth, Campari and gin provides the perfect base for adding a creative spin. Stylish Chelsea bar, Ritorno, has put its name to the tipple with its winter take dubbed the ‘Ritorno Negroni.’ Campari, VII Hills Italian dry gin, Vermouth Rosso and the addition of Figaro Fog Liqueur give the drink a fruity twist this season.

ritorno.co.uk 

Foxlow

Negroni

As the darker winter nights draw in, swap your summery cocktails for cosy winter alternatives. The talented bar staff at Foxlow have created their bespoke Mince Pie Liqueur that gives the classic Negroni a Christmas makeover. Named the ‘Christmas Negroni’ this delicious combination of Campari, Beefeater Gin and Mince Pie Liqueur brings a festive sweet sensation to this classic bitter cocktail.

foxlow.co.uk 

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