We don’t drink water south of the border, we know we oughta but that’s our orders. There’s something just so damn interesting about mezcal, the one we’ve selected here is made from 100% Espadín agave from Oaxaca that is roasted in stone pits for several days before being crushed in a traditional stone tahona, and then fermented in open-air wooden vats, allowing the local wild yeasts to add their own character to the spirit that is distilled from copper pot stills. Then, we blend fresh lime with the mezcal, before we liberally splash apricot brandy into the mix. The apricot brandy adds this broad, stone fruit sweetness that is the perfect dance-partner for the savoury smokiness of the mezcal, while the lime’s acidity shears through the edges to add definition and balance to the palate. 

Technically, this cocktail is a riff on a Toreador – the Curatif aficionados in the audience will recognise this as one of our earliest bar collabs. This cocktail is what happens when a classic cocktail takes a wrong turn down a dusty road and doesn’t bother asking for directions. It’s the taste of summer fruit that spent a little too much time by the campfire, picking up stories and smoke in equal measure. Imagine if an apricot slipped into a leather jacket, lit a match off the sole of its boot, and dared your margarita to keep up. It doesn’t so much balance sweet and smoky as it lets them wrestle on your tongue, leaving you wondering whether you’ve just had a drink or a brief, flavourful argument with the desert itself.

Se Busca Mezcal, Joseph Cartron Apricot Liqueur, Lime Juice

130ml  | 1.5 Standards | 14.3% ABV

Originally invented in San Francisco in 2013, the Baby Turtle is a cleverly constructed contrast of bitter, sweet, tart, and vegetal all with a little fluffy bow on top. We've included it in this Margarita Month's Club cocktails as we were looking for a savoury play on a tequila based cocktail that could show off its chops as the ballerina pirouetting right on the edge of the blade between silly and serious. In no particular order, we've blended in Tequila Tromba Reposado, a perfectly aged 100% agave tequila from Jalisco distilled by Marco Cedano (former head distiller at Don Julio), locally crafted Marionette Bitter Curacao lends its iconic aperitif character, all married with fresh ruby grapefruit juice whose tart, succulent notes create texture and tail. Finally, house crafted cinnamon ties everything together to create the symphony that calls you back to the glass time and time again.

This cocktail from Trick Dog is the liquid equivalent of finding a Renaissance painting in your grandmother's freezer, right between the peas and the regret. It's as if an alchemist, three-quarters through turning lead into gold, got distracted by a passing thought about amphibians and decided, no, this is better. It doesn't sit in the glass so much as it rearranges the space around it, with the quiet confidence of a beverage that knows it's two steps ahead of your palate and five ahead of your expectations

Reposado Tequila, Marionette Bitter Curacao, Grapefruit & Lime Juices, Cinnamon. 

130ml  | 2.1 Standards | 19.9% ABV

Unmistakably Killik rum with its dunder, spunk and funk. Huge mandarin everything, it’s like peeling open a specially grown blue mandarin and shoving the whole damn thing in your mouth, with juicy, drippy pineapple mucking around in the background, probably about to accidentally knock a cricket ball through the kitchen window. Slurpable and silly, this is just the sort of irreverence you want from blue drinks. When they let the aliens out this is the first thing we serve them at the bar to show them “hey we say peace, but we mean party.” And when they say, “take us to your leader,” we just turn the music up, point to the lasers and say “how bananas is this, this cocktail is named after a 1961 movie where Angela Lansbury plays Elvis’ Mum. Elvis wants to just hang loose (same) and Lansbury tries to force him to work in the family pineapple business?”

And the alien goes, “ummmmm, OK. This drink is nice.”

Ron Colón Salvadoreño Dark Aged Rum, Marrionette Blue Curaçao, Fresh Pineapple Juice, Sugar

130ml  | 1.5 Standards | 15.1% ABV

Plantation 3 Star Rum, Ferrand Dry Curaçao, Strawberry, Fresh Lime, Cherry Brandy, Sugar. 

130ml  | 1.8 Standards | 17.5% ABV

The Illusion Shaker is a blinding, liquid anthem of the 90s, its green hue so vivid it feels engineered to glow in the dark. Poured recklessly into plastic silver shakers that rattle like makeshift maracas in sweaty hands, the translucent neon liquid sloshing against the beat of a relentless techno pulse. This isn't a cocktail - it's a melon rebellion, dunked in Cointreau and then electrocuted for good measure.

The air reeks of its saccharine perfume, a mix of Midori and citrus tang that cuts through the haze of sweat and cigarette smoke. When it spills, the green streaks down bare arms, over glistening vinyl pants, pooling on the floor like alien blood. No one minds. It's the drink you hold high when the bass drops, shaking with the abandon of someone who knows that nothing about this night - especially the colour green - will ever be subtle.

Melon Liqueur, Cointreau, Lime Juice, Pineapple Juice.

130ml |  1.3 Standards | 12.8% ABV 

130ml  | 1.5 Standards | 14.7% ABV

This daiquiri is a voyage to the primordial forest where raspberries were first plucked from thorny brambles by the reckless hands of ancient poets. Legend whispers they were discovered in the shadows of Mount Ida, Greece - a gift from the gods or perhaps a cosmic accident, their scarlet hue staining history forever.

Plantation 3 Star Rum, Tommy's Lampone, Lemon Juice

130ml |  1.7 Standards | 17.1% ABV