Coca leaves: great for everything

Fruit juices to take the edge off the morning after

Bitter, sweet, spicy, herbal... Europe is home to a fascinating array of aperitifs, digestifs and herbal liqueurs that are full of potential for the adventurous mixologist. Alice Lascelles assembled a panel to taste some contenders ranging from 400-year-old elixirs to newcomers hot off the still

Shoreditch bar and restaurant Drunken Monkey has launched a new Tea Party Menu

As the demand for premium soft drinks grows, so, it seems, does an interest in proper food and soft drink flavour matching.

Red Bull have invited artists to customise coolers, which are to be placed in a selection of East London bars from this weekend

At this time of year, you may have a fair few customers struggling to keep on the wagon (as illustrated by a Fentiman of yore, right) and Fentimans has come up with a choice of soft cocktails to add interest, not to mention income, to such an occasion. These include the Honeymoon (Fentimans Dandelion and Burdock…

The film Cocktail is 20 years young this year, and with so many kids now wearing clothes straight out of the 80s, it seemed the perfect time for Tom Sandham to re-visit the movie that has inspired a generation of bartenders

Tequila dealer: The ultimate tequila cocktails

Scented, flavoursome and adorned with beautiful flowers, herbs are an essential ingredient for any cocktail list this summer. Alice Lascelles digs deep...

A growing number of drinks are enhancing their recipes with ingredients reputed to make you party harder and feel better. Alice Lascelles gets to know her guarana from her ginkgo and finds out what the bartenders make of it