Cheers to the Best of 2018!
Let’s celebrate with a toast to the most amazing cocktails of the year. The most memorably delicious for me were enjoyed at bars in London, Oxford, and Pittsburgh.
Please note, this list merely reflects how I chose to spend my time during the year and is comprised of well established and brand new venues as well as businesses that are somehow related to where work and play took me.
Items appear in alphabetic order, not ranked.
Best Cocktails
The Bonaparte | The American Bar
The Stafford London, 16 St James’s Place, London SW1A 1PE
Remy Martin VSOP, Martini Riserva Rubino, Fernet Branca, crème de cacao, cinnamon syrup
The Ginger Gear | Behind This Wall
411 Mare Street, London E8 1HY
Seedlip Spice 94 (rich and allspice-y), CBD honey and ginger syrup, apple and cinnamon kombucha, apple wood smoke, and candied ginger … non-alcoholic
The Last Stand | The Whitfield
Ace Hotel Pittsburgh, 120 South Whitfield Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15206, USA
Del Maguey Vida Mezcal, Old Overholt Rye, demerara, orange bitters, Aztec Chocolate Bitters
TCT Chocolate Fashioned | The Coconut Tree
76 St Clement’s Street, Oxford OX4 1AW, UK
Bourbon, arrack, chocolate bitters, coconut ice (when the ice ball made of coconut ice melts it adds flavour rather than diluting the drink)
PA Sazerac | Wigle Distillery and Tasting Room
2401 Smallman Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222, USA
Wigle Pennsylvanian Rye Whiskey, absinthe, birch bark simple syrup, bitters
More of the Best of 2018 to follow!
