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London’s top creepy cocktails for Halloween
Turn ‘trick or treat’ into ‘treat yourself’ this Halloween by tasting your way across the capital with these hauntingly scrumptious serves.
The Formaldehyde Martini by The Milestone Hotel
Spook season is once again upon us, and this year it seems as though bartenders’ imaginations have run wilder than ever before.
Ghoulish garnishes, syrup-filled syringes and even “severed-finger” snacks have made the cut this year – but fear not, drinks devotees, you can be sure each cocktail is both mouthwatering and spectral in equal measure.
Whether you’re channelling Frankenstein’s monster or being the ghostess with the mostess, get into the spirit(s) of things this weekend with pick of Halloween sippers.
Click through to discover our selection of the top Halloween cocktails in bars around London – we dare you.
Arsenic
Bar: Jinjuu, Kingly Court, 15 Kingly St, London W1B 5PS
Price: £11
Ingredients: Chairmans Reserve rum, Hwayo X.P, mandarin, yujacha, fresh orange, aromatic bitters
La Ofrenda de Espolon
Bar: Three Six Six, 126 St John’s Hill, London SW11 1SL
Price: £11.90
Ingredients: Espolon Tequila Blanco infused with dried marigold heads, roasted sweet potato and allspice puree, dark chocolate liquor, Pan de muerto “bread of the dead” and chipotle syrup, marigold tea, lime juice, marigold petals and incense tincture
Sleepy Hollow
Bar: Skylon, Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Rd, London SE1 8XX
Price: £12
Ingredients: Pink Pigeon rum, crème de cassis, apple juice, cucumber juice, lime and elderflower cordial
Zombie
Bar: London Cocktail Club, various locations across London
Price: £35
Ingredients: Sailor Jerry rum, Mount Gay rum, Wray & Nephew overproof rum, Maraschino, grapefruit juice, pineapple juice, grenadine, lime juice , Angostura bitters, Pernod Absinthe
Salem Witch Reviver
Bar: Behind This Wall, 411 Mare St, London E8 1HY
Price: £9
Ingredients: White rum, coffee liqueur, maraska liqueur, maple-candied apple
Black Heaven
Bar: Threadneedle Bar, Royal Exchange, London EC3V 3LR
Price: £10
Ingredients: Spiced whisky, pineapple juice, pumpkin syrup, lemon
Paloma Muerta
Bar: Cafe Pacifico, 5 Langley St, Convent Garden, London WC2H 9JA
Price: £7.50
Ingredients: 1800 Reposado Tequila, fresh lime juice, fresh pink grapefruit juice, fresh pomegranate juice, agave nectar, grapefruit soda, pinch sea salt, spray mescal, cherry, slice pink grapefruit, dry chilli flakes, dehydrated lime
Brain Damage
Bar: Dalloway Terrace, 16-22 Great Russell St, London WC1B 3NN
Price: £20 (includes Halloween screening of Ghostbusters, 1984 edition)
Ingredients: Archers Peach Schnapps, grenadine, Baileys
Day of the Diablo
Bar: Below The Cut, Hanger sw6, 461 North End Road, London SW6 1NZ
Price: £8
Ingredients: Tequila, cassis, lime, ginger and a cayenne salt rim
Formaldehyde Martini
Bar: The Milestone Hotel, 1 Kensington Ct, London W8 5DL
Price: £18 (served with ‘finger food’ bar snacks)
Ingredients: Grey Goose Vodka, Absinthe, juice of macerated winter berries, sugar syrup
Tommy’s Margharita
Bar: Oriole, Smithfield Market, Smithfield Markets, E Poultry Ave, London EC1A 9LH
Price: £40 (part of the Day of the Dead Spirited Supper)
Ingredients: Agave nectar, Tapatio Blanco, fresh lime, salt
Halloween Special Cocktail
Bar: Mango Tree, 46 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7EQ
Price: £12
Ingredients: Cognac, Kailua, Vodka, flamed orange syrup, coke
UnderWorld
Bar: Paternoster Chop House, 1 Warwick Court, Paternoster Row, London EC4M 7DX
Price: £8.50
Ingredients: El Jimador Reposado, lime juice, crème de cassis, ginger beer, charcoal supplement capsule, red jelly snake, sour jelly snake
Eye for an Eye
Bar: Scarfes Bar, Rosewood London, 252 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EN
Price: £16
Ingredients: Snow Queen Vodka, roasted pumpkin purée, home-made brown sugar syrup, lime, ginger beer
Bloody Scotsman
Bar: Mac & Wild, 65 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 7PS
Price: £8
Ingredients: Tabasco, red wine, port, mustard, whiskey, tomato juice and a sharp squirt of lemon juice
Deadcool
Bar: Dirty Bones, various locations across London
Price: £9
Ingredients: Montelobos Mezcal, Belazar Rose, lemon, beetroot plum soda, ebony lime
Ukhu Pacha
Bar: Coya Mayfair, 118 Piccadilly, Mayfair, London W1J 7NW
Price: £13.50
Ingredients: Havana Especial, grapefruit syrup, nardini mandorla, lime, dash Amargo Bitter, Chicha Morada
Ghostly Shadow
Bar: Buddha Bar, 145 Knightsbridge, London SW1X 7PA
Ingredients: Ghost Vodka, lime juice, elderflower, sugar syrup, fresh cucumber, mint, egg white, apple juice