Last updated: 15 July 2023
London Cocktail Week is back again for one week only. For anyone that’s been abstaining for Dryathlon throughout September, October is a welcome return of the warm embrace of a tipple.
Similar to previous years pop up bars, masterclasses, events and tours are all on the agenda for the year’s week of hedonism.
Fancy a drink in a loo? Well that’s on offer in Kentish Town! Plenty of fantastic bars will be popping-up all around London to create delicious cocktails to tantalise your tastebuds and line your livers along with masterclasses with some of the world’s biggest brand names.
What’s your flavour?
Craft gin? American whiskey? Scottish spirits? All available to savour and experience and everything in between.
Some of the industry’s finest bartenders will battle it out in a beer pong style tournament at London Cocktail Club. However, there’s no beer here. It’s all cocktail and all class.
As always Soho is a hub. Old Spitalfields Market will play host to a cocktail village with pop-up bars, trucks and other creations serving specially created cocktails. Mussel Men in Dalston are running the Scottish Invasion with a spectacular super sunday seafood roast with Bowmore.
More on the Scottish theme, as it’s the Year of Food and Drink in Scotland, why not sign up for A History of Scottish Drinks in 90 minutes.
What’s in a wristband?
These babies will set you back a tenner but they have their benefits. Hundreds of bars around the city will be serving £5 cocktails to wristband wearers.
Along with cheap bevis, wristband wearers can also gain free entry into Be At One Spitalfields as twelve of Europe’s top mixologists will be going head to head for the Great British Shake Off.
Cheap drinks, cheap tours and free entry. That’s value for money if you ask me! Collect your London Cocktail Week wristband from Cocktail Week Hub in Soho or the London Cocktail Week Village at Old Spitalfields Market.
The Essentials
London Cocktail Week
Where: There’s so much on, it’s impossible to list them all. Pop up bars and tours are city wide. Check out London Cocktail Week for more information and schedules.
When: 5-11 October 2015
Cost: Wristbands cost £10 giving you free access to some events, cheaper cocktails & discounts or free tours.
Verdict:
I’m there! I’m already planning my route and filling up the diary with events!
Your thoughts:
What’s your plan for London Cocktail Week?
This sounds like so much fun. I love trying different cocktails in new places.
This sounds superfun! I love my beer but am an occasional cocktail drinker.
That’s totally acceptable! I noticed there’s cocktails with all kinds of ingredients for all palettes. Everything from chocolate, sweet, sour citrus, all designed to let your imagination wander.
I’m not a big drinker but those muscles look amazing
That looks like a great event 🙂 I would love to go!
Ahh yes! I’m a londoner and need to be all over this!
OMG you totally do! If you have a look online, you can get wristbands for a fiver.
Shame about all this rain though. Doesn’t make rooftop bars all that appealing does it!
Thank goodness you alerted me to this, or it would have passed me by altogether! Let’s do it 🙂
You know me well Elle. Always happy to help encourage some drink and debauchery. 🙂
Ohh nice. I am not much of a drinker but that’s usually because I don’t like the taste of most drinks such as beer, cocktails on the other hand, love them!! All the flavours and combinations, mmm!
Hows that knee Nic? Everyone can find ‘something’ on a cocktail list they like. Favourite flavour(s)? I’m a lime girl myself. Love the stuff, can’t get enough of it!
I am a gin girl! Cocktails in London? For a whole week? Yes, please!
Gin, how quintessentially English! 🙂 Grab yourself a wristband to sample the best of the best.
awesome!!! I need to find something like this in NYC!!
Oh for sure! I’m sure they definitely do a Cocktail festival in NYC.
Interesting post! Never been in London, but definitely will try this! 🙂
Wow! This is a really nice event and in London at that, where the cocktail scene is superb.
I know right?! I’m really looking forward to it.
Nice event! I would definitely try this while in London. Although my main drink is beer 🙂 But… I think I would survive one day without beer. 🙂
Looks really fun right?! It’s also a great opportunity to explore new drinking holes you’d normally not visit, or more fancy places generally outside your budget. 🙂