Recipes

Dirty Martini

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Espresso Martini

Celebrate the sweet, caffeinated coffee deliciousness at home with Portobello Road Toasted Coffee Bean Vodka: undisputedly the best British Coffee ...

Portobello Cosmopolitan Line

The best British Citrus Vodka for the Cosmopolitan.

Portobello Pornstar Martini

We have the best British Vanilla Vodka for the Pornstar Martini...

Riviera Cocktail

Transportive in nature, this cocktail will have you feeling like you could be sunning yourself on the French Riviera (if you close your eyes!) 25m...

Savoury Gin & Tonic

If ever there were a match made in heaven, it would have to be our Savoury Gin with Fever-Tree's Mediterranean tonic water. Blending the essential...

Savoury Gin Dirty Tuxedo

This cocktail riffs on a punchy martini and lets the few ingredients used speak for themselves. Rather than tasting of olive brine, if you make it...

Savoury Gin Sour

Now if a drink were ever to extol the virtues of Portobello Road Savoury Gin, it may just be the gin sour. A best seller at The Distillery at 186 ...

Temperance Westside

Try this refreshing Spring serve, a Temperance Westside. A Westside cocktail usually contains vodka and is closely related to the Southside and Eas...

Clover Club

Hailing from Philadelphia, this classic cocktail dates back to pre-prohibition times. With only 5 ingredients it is relatively simple to make, but ...

Harry Johnson’s 1888 Martini

From Harry Johnson’s 1888 Bartender’s Manual, we're using our Old Tom as he did for his martini, but with a few changes, such as quantities. He cal...

Temperance & Tonic

Summer drink? Gin & Tonic. Winter warmer? Gin & Tonic. Practically perfect for every occasion and beautifully simple to make, there is a re...

Corpse Reviver No.2

While for most Halloween is a celebration of zombies, skeletons and the long deceased, here at Portobello Road Gin we are drinking this classic coc...

Gin Sour

The sour is a classic family of cocktails that also includes the Margarita and the Daiquiri. The classification was first written down in Jerry Tho...

Navy French 75

Now this drink is as boujee as it is boozy. A fantastically delicious sparkling cocktail that classically uses London dry gin, our navy strength wo...

Navy Perfect Lady

Inspired by Edward VIII's abdication to marry his perfect lady, Wallis Simpson, the Perfect Lady cocktail was created by Sidney Cox in 1936, winni...

Contessa

A relatively close relative of the Negroni, The Contessa cocktail still packs a delightful punch and never more so than when using our Portobello R...

Slower more comfortable screw

The Sloe Comfortable Screw is a remnant from the past, a member of that much maligned family of cocktails that we derisively call ‘Disco Drinks’. T...

The Wibble

One of the lesser known cocktails from the legendary Dick Bradsell, the man who invented the Espresso Martini and the Bramble. Using our London Dry...

Sloe Gin Spritz

No drink in the last ten years has enjoyed such a meteoric rise as the Spritz, here we use our Sloeberry & Blackcurrant Gin to great effect, us...

Sloe Gin Rickey

The Gin Rickey is a very simple drink from the Golden Age of Cocktails, consisting of just gin, fresh lime juice and sparkling water, served long ...

The Sandringham

There has always been something quite aristocratic about Sloe Gin, one could imagine Princess Anne or the late Queen Mother sipping a from a flask ...

Old Tom Julep

Though most classically known for the bourbon and mint version, the julep category is actually just any spirit that is served over crushed ice. The...

Old Tom Highball

The highball really extolls the virtues of our Old Tom as it allows the botanicals to shine through and highlights the pleasant effects the barrel ...

Old Tom Collins

Where our London Dry works wonderfully in the modernised recipe of this classic cocktail, our Old Tom takes it back to it's original, glorious form...

Red Snapper

The reason we think that the Red Snapper is infinitely better than the Bloody Mary? Well, it’s in the botanicals of course. For a drink that is a p...

Pegu Club

A lesser known, but albeit classic cocktail. The Pegu Club is the signature serve of Burma’s Pegu Club, a renowned membership club that was frequen...

Navy Strength Seabreeze

Our Navy Strength take on what is usually a vodka based cocktail makes for a delicious Summer drink with it's citrus nature cut with the salinity o...

Paddington Bear's Marmalade Sandwich

Portobello Road’s most celebrated ursine fan; Paddington Bear, or Pastuso to use his given name as we really should in the post colonial era, was a...

Bees Knees

To describe something as ‘the bees knees’ is to say that it is exceptional and whether the phrase hails from this very drink or not, the bees knees...

20th Century Cocktail

As the name might suggest, this delicious cocktail was indeed created in the (early) 20th Century. The recipe was first published in 1937 in Willia...

Singapore Sling

A classic cocktail with a much debated recipe, the Singapore Sling has somewhat been forgotten amongst modern drinks but World Class Bartender, Joe...

Admiral Martini

A distinctly maritime take on the classic Martini cocktail. This sophisticated libation substitutes Fino Sherry for the vermouth used in the classi...

Coconut Pink Gin

A ‘Pink Gin’ is simply a mixture of gin and Angostura Bitters which one can order “In or Out”. “In” meaning the bitters tipped into the empty cockt...

Navy Strength Gimlet

The Gimlet is perhaps the most well known of all the naval cocktails and is a staple on many a cocktail menu having originated in the late 19th Cen...

Navy Strength Henderson Cocktail

This is a long forgotten drink that our resident historian, Jake F. Burger, stumbled across in an old newspaper. More suited to the Merchant Navy ...

London Mule

As a proud purveyor of London’s spirit, we have created our own quintessentially English take on the Moscow Mule, made with gin, Fever-Tree Refresh...

Temperance Margarita

Traditionally a tequila based drink, the margarita is a deliciously fresh and citrusy cocktail. When creating Temperance spirit, it was designed to...

Tom Collins

Portobello Road Gin's modernised recipe of a classic cocktail popularised in London during the 1880’s by John Collins of Limmers Hotel. Easy to mak...

Classic Negroni

The iconic red cocktail is a gin classic that is as bitter as it is delicious.

Gin Martini

7 January 2018 Is there a cocktail more iconic than the martini? Ernest Hemmingway once said of the drink: “I had never tasted anything so...

Petite 75

Your low alcohol answer to the classic French 75.

Temperance White Logroni

Giving the Negroni a Temperance twist.

A Call for Temperance

Turning ‘temptation’ in to ‘temperance,’ the range of drinks we put together using our low alcohol spirit are perfect for a mid-week pick me up or ...

Bramble Cocktail

30 December 2019 We visited the appropriately named Bramble Bar in Edinburgh where Assistant Bar Manager, Johnny talked us through the history of ...

Festive Orange and Rosemary Fizz

19 December 2019 A gin fizz never tasted so festive and using our new Celebrated Butter Gin, this Orange & Rosemary Fizz perfectly marries her...

Army and Navy Cocktail

13 August 2019 A cocktail you don’t see much on current menus, The Army & Navy is a citrus delight with its short but punchy character. T...

Local Heroes 3 - Brothers in Arms

5 June 2019 Made with Local Heroes No.3 gin, produced in collaboration with Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits, world class Bartender Joe Schof...

Local Heroes 3 - Water of Love

12 April 2019 This is a very simple drink to make, although one of the ingredients needs a little advance planning! Ingredients: 40ml...

Local Heroes 3 - Romeo & Juliet

12 April 2019 We named this one after the classic Dire Straits Romeo and Juliet because like the star-crossed lovers in Shakespeare’s...

Local Heroes 3 - Portobello Belle

9 April 2019 Zesty, fresh, lively, all the things you want in a gin and tonic. This one is named for the song Portobello Belle from t...

The Queen Mother

Ingredients 25 ml Portobello Road Gin 25 ml Dubbonet 20 ml Aperol 5 ml Dark Jamaican Rum Method Stir all of the ingredients with ice in a mixing g...

The Alexander the Great

29 November 2018 In crafting our signature serves our purpose is simple, to deliver the most elegant and refined flavour profiles imaginab...

The Southside Fizz

28 November 2018 Our classic Portobello Road Gin No. 171 is the product of 9 months hard craft, research and experimentation. The result i...

Blue Pea Spritz

15 November 2018 In crafting our signature serves we seek out only premium ingredients, spirits and mixers that complement and showcase Po...

Clover Club Fizz

1 November 2018 Our premier team of bartenders, led by our co-founder Mr Jake F. Burger, pride themselves on crafting modern classic cockt...

The Vesper Martini

19 September 2018 James Bond… debonair, daring and with a penchant for “A Martini. Shaken, not stirred.” Despite uttering these immortal l...

Portobello Road Signature Serve

3 August 2018 In partnership with our good friends at Fever-Tree, we’ve crafted simple, elegant summer tipples, each blended with their st...