Cocktails are back－fresher and tastier than ever. The days when a cocktail meant an over－sweet, garish concoction, garnished with a pineapple chunk and a paper umbrella, are over. Today's cocktails are made with fresh, high－quality ingredients, with the intention of producing sometimes subtle, sometimes startling flavour combinations.

Foreword

Infroduction

Tools of the trade

The bartender's guide to glasses

The art of mixology

The bartender's lexicon of cocktail ingredients and drinks

 COCKTAILS: WAKE-UP CALL

THE WORLD'S TOP ] 0 BARS: Academia da Cachaca, Rio de Janeiro

 COCKTAILS: LOUNGING AROUND

THE WORLD'S TOP 10 BARS: The Flatiron Lounge, New York City

COCK'I'AI LS: BEFORE DI N NER

THE WORLD'S TOP 10 BARS: City Space Bar, Moscow

 COCKTAILS: IN THE MOOD

THE WORLD'S TOP 10 BARS: Der Raum, Melbourne

 COCKTAILS: KEEPING A CLEAR HEAD

THE WORLD'S TOP ] 0 BARS: Sky Bar at Sirocco, Bangkok

 COCKTAILS: AFTER DINNER

THE WORLD'S TOP 10 BARS: Le Bar, Hotel GeorgeV, Paris

 COCKTAILS: NIGHT OUT

THE WORLD'S TOP 10 BARS: The Hawksmoor, London

 COCKTAILS: PARTY INVITATION

THE WORLD'S TOP 10 BARS: Tretter's Bar, Prague

 COCKTAILS: END OF THE EVENING

THE WORLD'S TOP 10 BARS: CSA-Bar, Berlin

 COCKTAILS: THE MORNING AFTER

THE WORLD'S TOP 10 BARS: PuroBeach Oasis del Mar, Palma de Mallorca

Cocktail index

General index