Tea time is getting a little boozy

Mayfair -based fine dining restaurant now offering cocktails and dim sum

Tom Sandham launches World's Best Cocktails book

Crucial to so many classic cocktails, vermouth is on the up, with a raft of newcomers adding interest to established classics. Clinton Cawood joins a team of bartenders to take a look at what the category has to offer

what is it about the flavour of smoke that’s so seductive, asks Marcis Dzelzainisi

Maxxium UK launch cocktail competition to find the perfect serve for The Naked Grouse

It’s not just blushing starlets who make their name on the silver screen – plenty of cocktails have taken starring roles too. Tom Sandham hangs around the stage door with his autograph book

A new range of bitters and spirits land on our shores

The government would certainly like our alcohol and calorie consumption to be lower, but what is the trade doing about it? And more to the point, is it working? Richard Woodard takes a look at the lighter side of life

Give liqueurs and cremes some love and you’ll have the classics licked, says Marcis Dzelzainis

EVEN THE DRINKS WORLD’S GREAT AND GOOD HAVE THEIR MOMENTS OF DEPRAVITY. TOM SANDHAM PICKS SOME DISTURBED MINDS TO UNCOVER A DARK WORLD OF BURGERS, BREAST MILK AND PORK SCRATCHINGS

Another day, another new absinthe brand...After years of promising to be the next big thing, absinthe’s time may have arrived. Clinton Cawood gathers a high-alcohol-tolerance panel to put a dozen to the test

A new, more health-conscious generation of consumers is now driving a shift towards drinks that are lighter in alcohol, lower in calories, but just as stylish and without compromising on taste – which is why the Martini Spritz should be an essential addition to your drinks list

They call it the silly season, but summer can offer some serious profits if you start planning now, says Alex Kammerling

He’s worked his way up from rough beginnings to mastermind some of Berlin’s most fashionable bars. Mixology magazine’s Helmut Adam meets the anti-hero of Berlin’s bar scene, Mario Grünenfelder