London Cocktail Week starts on Monday 8 October, seven days of special events and reduced price cocktails throughout the capital. To celebrate, we’ve teamed up with Kettner’s Champagne Bar in London’s Soho and BLOOM London Dry Gin to make a flirty, fruity cocktail to accessorise your best LBD look. You can have a FREE COCKTAIL on us at Kettner’s during London Cocktail Week (get your voucher here), but if you can’t get down to Soho, here’s how to make it at home. All the chicness of a Cosmo, the fun of Sex on the Beach and a little something extra that you can’t quite put your finger on, the LBD cocktail is this week’s must-have! It’s delicious, it’s fun, it’s individual and it’s all yours to make for you and your nearest and dearest…

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You will need:

35ml BLOOM London Gin

25ml Orange Juice

15ml Lemon Juice

10ml Gomme or sugar syrup (this stuff isn’t easy to find but you can make your own by boiling 2 cups of sugar in 1 cup of water for about 5 minutes and stirring occasionally. Store in an air tight container and bring out for cocktail making sessions)

2-3 fresh strawberries

A handful of fresh mint

To make:

Add gin, orange juice, lemon juice and gomme to a cocktail shaker. Shake well, strain and serve over crushed ice in a long glass. Garnish with a strawberry and a sprig of mint.

Easy! But if that all sounds like too much hard work for you, simply print off one of our vouchers for a FREE LBD cocktail at Kettner’s in London here.