Shake up the season: What to drink this Autumn
Blowtorches and strainers at the ready: with autumn taking hold and London Cocktail Week on its way (October 3-9), it’s time to shake up your cocktail habits. And there are few better spirit guides than Oskar Kinberg, whose bar, Oskar’s, sits below Michelin-starred restaurant Dabbous.
Kinberg’s friendship with Ollie Dabbous has given the bartender a chef-like approach to cocktails: his new Cocktail Cookbook is arranged not by spirits, regions or style but by the store cupboard/fridge ingredient that inspires each drink. “In an ideal world you would look at a menu and go: ‘I like kiwi, I like avocado. This should be a good drink. Not, I don’t like gin, I won’t like this’,” he says. In other words, “don’t let the alcohol put you off”.
Even if you’re a hardcore drinker who can sink anything, Kinberg’s approach makes choosing your drink more thoughtful than ordering yet another Negroni. Above are his boozy recommendations for autumn.
Cocktail Cookbook by Oskar Kinberg (£18, Frances Lincoln) is available from October 6
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