The Connaught Bar: Cocktail Recipes and Iconic Creations

Loved it

The Connaught Bar is rightfully considered one of the best in the world. I was excited to get this book, even though it’s better for reading and learning than it is for drink making. Some recipes require mixtures of custom mixtures. I’ll make some of these drinks for the fun of it, not because it’s easy.

Writing this review to try and provide some balance. This is a gorgeous book - fantastic photography, clearly laid out and just the type of high quality product you'd expect from a Phaidon publication.As other reviewers have rightly pointed out, the recipes in this book are challenging for the home bartender. I would not agree that they are all unachievable though. The mocktail in the recipe above for example, requires fresh fruit that most people would have and the only 'difficult' ingredient is a pomegranate syrup, which is made simply by combining sugar, water and pomegranate juice. Also, each recipe is marked with a difficulty rating of 1-3, so you can easily see how challenging each one is going to be.Overall, I would recommend this book if you are an enthusiastic home bartender that wants to enjoy soaking up an incredibly high-level cocktail recipe book, and cherry picking perhaps 5-10 of the more achievable recipes and making those into mini projects. I'd have loved a recipe for their ginseng and bergamot bitters, which is mentioned in 4 cocktails but is not included, and instructions for how to scale down some of the ingredient recipes which have clearly been designed for a high volume bar - which is why it's 4 stars and not 5.

Great insight into the minds of one of the best cocktail bars in the world

all cocktail are impossible to make at home I am going to donate to a charity shop.DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS BOOK