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Margarita
The Margarita is the most ordered cocktail in the United States, and that status has done to it what it did to the Mojito: margarita mix, bottled lime and the frozen resort serve
Mary Pickford
The Mary Pickford is Prohibition Havana's love letter to the movies: white rum, fresh pineapple, a blush of grenadine and a whisper of maraschino, mixed in the early 1920s for the
Mexican Firing Squad
The Mexican Firing Squad is tequila, lime, grenadine and Angostura, which is a margarita's shape with two of its four parts swapped out. Charles H. Baker found it at La Cucaracha
Mezcal Margarita
The Mezcal Margarita is a Tommy’s Margarita with mezcal in place of the tequila: spirit, lime and agave syrup, no orange liqueur. That last absence is the whole reason it
Monkey Gland
The Monkey Gland has the strangest name origin in the classic canon and wears it proudly. Harry MacElhone mixed it at his Paris bar in the early 1920s and named it for Dr Serge
Naked and Famous
The Naked and Famous is a modern classic with a full pedigree on file. Joaquín Simó created it at Death & Co in 2011 and described it himself as the bastard love child of the Last
New York Sour
The New York Sour is a whiskey sour wearing a cape of claret, and like several things named for New York it comes from Chicago. Bartenders there were floating red wine on whiskey
Nuclear Daiquiri
The Nuclear Daiquiri is a daiquiri with the base split between overproof Jamaican rum and green Chartreuse, and there is no sugar syrup in it at all. Ten millilitres of falernum
Old Friend
The Old Friend is gin and Campari with the bitterness turned down and the fruit turned up: fresh grapefruit juice does what a Negroni asks the drinker to accept, and an
Orange Daiquiri
The Orange Daiquiri is the fruit family's subtlest member: fresh orange folded into the Cuban frame, with lime kept on at half strength to do the structural work orange cannot.
Paper Plane
The Paper Plane was created by Sam Ross at Milk & Honey in New York around 2007 and named after the M.I.A. song that was playing while he developed it. It is an equal-parts build
Paradise
The Paradise is gin, apricot brandy and orange juice, and it is one of the few pre-war cocktails that has survived without anyone feeling the need to rescue it. It appears in
Passion Fruit Daiquiri
The Passion Fruit Daiquiri is the shaken branch of the fruit daiquiri family and the connoisseur’s pick of it. Passion fruit’s perfumed sharpness is the rare tropical flavour that
Passion Fruit Margarita
The Passion Fruit Margarita is the family's perfumed wing: the fruit that built the Pornstar Martini's empire, meeting tequila's pepper in a frame that turns out to suit it. The
Pegu Club
The Pegu Club was the officers’ club of colonial Rangoon, a white building above the Pegu river where the gin was cold and the empire was warm, and its house cocktail travelled
Penicillin
The Penicillin was created by Sam Ross at Milk & Honey in New York in 2005 and is one of the most significant original cocktails of the contemporary revival. Ross also created the
Picante de la Casa
The Picante de la Casa is Soho House's chilli Margarita, and it is built on the Tommy's rather than the classic: tequila, lime and agave syrup, no orange liqueur. Chilli goes into
Pink Lady
The Pink Lady is the Clover Club’s Broadway cousin: gin and apple brandy under grenadine and an egg-white silk, named for a 1911 stage hit and adopted between the wars as the
Pisco Sour
The Pisco Sour is a national institution with an American accent. Victor Vaughen Morris, a bartender from Utah who followed the railway money south, opened Morris' Bar in Lima and
Rattlesnake
The Rattlesnake arrives with the best joke in the Savoy Cocktail Book attached to it. Harry Craddock printed the spec in 1930 with a note that it is “so called because it will
Rum Sour
The Rum Sour is the sour template with one of its oldest partners in it: aged rum, lemon and sugar in the proportions the whiskey branch of the family made famous. The template
Shamrock Sour
The Shamrock Sour is a house serve built for the one night a year that expects the glass to be green: Irish whiskey shaken with fresh lime, honey syrup, blue curaçao and a splash
Sidecar
The Sidecar is one of the great drinks of the years after the First World War, and its paternity has never been settled. It appears in 1922 in both Harry MacElhone’s ABC of Mixing
Silk Stocking
The Silk Stocking is tequila’s dessert secret, and almost nobody knows it exists. Blanco folded into cream and white crème de cacao with a grenadine blush, dusted with cinnamon