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Cocktail Directory
Palate-cleansing, pre-dinner cocktails, often bittersweet and moderately alcoholic.
Read more about Aperitivo/aperitif cocktails
- Daiquiri (Difford's recipe)
- Margarita on-the-rocks (Difford's recipe)
- Negroni Cocktail
- Poet's Dream
- Difford's Fruit Cup No.1 (gin based & Pimm's Cup-like)
- Damn It Jimmy
- Left Bank Martini
- Mezcal Margarita
- Marsala Martini
- South Side Rickey
- Brooklyn (perfect)
- Scotch Whisky Fruit Cup (Difford's Cup No.2)
- Rum Fruit Cup (Difford's Cup No.4)
- Rye Whiskey Fruit Cup (Difford's Cup No.5)
- Mezcal Fruit Cup (Diffords No.8 Cup)
- Pisco Fruit Cup (Difford's Cup No.9)
- Calvados Fruit Cup (Difford's Cup No.13)
- Iron Negroni
- Triple Daiquiri
- The Dante
- One Sip Martini
- Daiquiri No. 1 (6:2:1 formula)
- Saketini
- Californian Margarita
- Sabot
- Tequila Martini
- Pippin No. 2
- Aged Honey Daiquiri
- Air Mail
- Genever Collins
- Canchànchara
- El Presidente
- Gimlet (Difford's recipe)
- Gin & Tonic
- Honeysuckle Daiquiri
- Jack Dempsey
- Dantes in Fernet
- Margarita (straight-up)
- Pisco Punch (Difford's recipe)
- Pisco Sour (Difford's recipe)
- Royal Bermuda Yacht Club
- Spritz Al Bitter (Spritz Veneziano)
- San Francisco (Café Royal)
- Tommy's Margarita
- Vieux Carré Cocktail
- Whiskey Sour (Difford's recipe)
- Addington
- Daiquiri No. 1 (Embury's 8:2:1 formula)
- Frank Sullivan Cocktail
- Barney Barnato Cocktail
- Daiquiri (on-the-rocks)
- Ford Cocktail
- Daiquiri No. 3
- Martinez (with Old Tom gin)
- Pyramid Punch
- The StiG
- Giblet (Tequila Gimlet)
- Scotch Sour
- La Perla
- Malty Dry Martini
- Special Brew Martini
- Succulent Blood
- Suzie Cocktail
- Paper Plane
- French 125 (French '75' with cognac)
- Thin Pink Line
- Simon Says
- Grappa Espresso Martini
- Arte de Volar
- Let's Go Bananas
- Tequila Fruit Cup (Difford's Cup No.7)
- Aged Rum Fruit Cup (Difford's Cup No.14)
- Tennessee Whiskey Fruit Cup (Difford's Cup No.17)
- French 75 (Difford's recipe)
- Dutch Tea Cocktail
- Grassoide Ferro Cocktail
- Haiti Cocktail
- Jerezana
- Tuxedo No. 2 (Flora Bar's recipe)
- Tuxedo (Difford's recipe)
- Fitzgerald (no added sugar & low-calorie)
- Millionaire's Martini
- Journey of Brothers
- Garden Sour
- Sloegroni
- Jabberwock
- Sunray
- Dry Martini (10:1 ratio)
- Irish Boulevardier
- Three Gulps Martini
- Psychopathia Sexualis
- Old Gal
- Celery Century
- Alpine Negroni
- Enzoni
- Takumi's Aviation
- Great Gatsby
- Gin Blossom Martini
- Macunaíma
- Yamabuki