• The definitive guide to the world's best cocktails and the bars that made them the only thing to drink in the hottest, and coolest, place to be seen. Imagine sipping a sophisticated Bellini while watching the gondolas glide by on Venice's Grand Canal, or swinging the night away in Paris with the sounds of Nat King Cole in your ears and a Dizzy Gillespie on the tip of your tongue. Now you can recreate these amazing experiences for yourself with this ultimate guide. Delicious recipes feature alongside their creators - the movers and shakers who drank them, and the bars with which they have become synonymous - and each cocktail is beautifully illustrated with historical and contemporary photography.