London's best warming cocktails for Christmas

Frankie McCoy mulls over London's best hot drinks for the festive season
Fruity number: Bao’s clementine sake
Frankie McCoy7 December 2016

A week into December and it feels as if you’ve already drunk a vat of mulled wine. Vary your drink diet with these alternative hot boozy cocktails.

Bao’s hot clementine ginger sake

The hugely popular Taiwanese restaurant also serves great cocktails. If you’re cold from queuing outside, order a hot and sour spiced clementine with ginger and sake. There’s a salted plum and whisky hot chocolate for pudding too.

Info: £5, Fitzrovia and Soho, baolondon.com

Rosewood’s sloe hot toddy

The Holborn hotel has a whole terrace dedicated to hot Sipsmith gin: choose from a hot gin and tonic, hot winter julep with peppermint tea and cacao, or a cosily boozy sloe hot toddy.

Info: £14, 252 High Holborn, WC1, rosewoodhotels.com

Les 110 de Taillevent mulled hot chocolate

This cocktail may have some mulled wine flavour but all is forgiven when the hot chocolate is added, especially since it’s ultra-rich melted Valrhona Guanaja.

Info: £9, 16 Cavendish Square, W1, les-110-taillevent-london.com

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York and Albany’s hot ale

All fairytales would end happily if the witch had a couple of warming vodka cocktails, such as the Grey Goose Hot Ale: pear vodka, pale ale, bitters, lemon, caramel and gingerbread syrup.

Info: £13, 127 Parkway, NW1, gordonramsayrestaurants.com

Bluebird’s hot espresso martini

The festive season is the time to splash booze into every drink, including coffee. Here hot espresso comes shaken with vodka, Kahlua and Frangelico, with vanilla syrup to sweeten.

Info: £11, 350 King’s Road, SW3, bluebird-restaurant.co.uk

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