Drakes Drinks For our selection of wines please ask for the Drakes wine list Facebook: www.facebook.com/drakesbrighton Instagram: www.instagram.com/drakesofbrighton Twitter: www.twitter.com/drakeshotel In conjunction with the Brighton & Hove Hotels Association, Drakes is pleased to be sponsors and supporters of the Snowdogs by-the-Sea Art Trail Snowdogs-by-the-Sea is a public participation Art event comprising of 44 individually designed large fiberglass Snowdog sculptures forming a trail across Brighton & Hove from 24th September until 27th November. Each dog has been created and painted by a selected Artist resulting in a colourful and unique exhibition across the city. It is completely free to follow the Snowdogs trail so be sure to pick up a map from us or download the one online. Net proceeds raised through this Art Trail will be donated to the Martlet’s Hospice, which is Drakes nominated charity of the Year. PAWS FOR THOUGHT - Brecon gin, fresh blackberries, lavender sugar syrup, fresh lemon juice and fresh mint £8.50 DRAKES WILL DONATE £1 TO THE MARTLET’S HOSPICE FOR EVERY COCKTAIL ORDER! Treasured Tipples HERE IS TO THE NIGHTS WE WILL NEVER REMEMBER WITH THE FRIENDS WE WILL NEVER FORGET. Last Tango In Paris £9.50 highball WYBOROWA VODKA, CAMPARI, PRESSED APPLE JUICE, VANILLA SUGAR SYRUP & FRESH PASSION FRUIT. Pomegranate Cosmopolitan £7.50 coupe WYBOROWA VODKA, COINTREAU, POMEGRANATE JUICE, FRESH LIME JUICE, POMEGRANATE SUGAR SYRUP & GRAPEFRUIT BITTERS. Pornstar Martini £10.50 coupe CARIEL VANILLA VODKA, PASSION FRUIT LIQUER, VANILLA SUGAR SYRUP, FRESH LIME JUICE, FRESH PASSION FRUIT & PROSECCO. A Mark Above £8.50 rocks BENCHMARK BOURBON, CAMPARI, ORANGE MARMALADE & OLD FASHIONED BITTERS. Sweet Libations SOMETIMES I THINK THAT THE ONLY THING I LOVE MOST ABOUT BEING AN ADULT IS THE RIGHT TO BUY CANDY WHENEVER I WANT. Dirty Sea Dog £7.50 coupe SKIPPER RUM, SALTED CARAMEL SYRUP. The Spy Who Loved Gin £8.50 coupe SACRED LONDON GIN, APRICOT BRANDY, PLUM BITTERS & FRESH GRAPEFRUIT JUICE. Candy Pants £8.50 highball CARIEL VANILLA VODKA, CRÈME DE MURE, FRESH LEMON JUICE, PRESSED PINEAPPLE JUICE & VANILLA SUGAR SYRUP. Slice Of Apple Pie £7.50 coupe TUACA., PRESSED APPLE JUICE, PRESSED PINEAPPLE JUICE, CINAMMON & VANILLA SUGAR SYRUP. Pop, Fizz, Clink HAND ME THE BUBBLES AND WATCH ME GET FABULOUS. White Port &Elderflower Spritz £8.50 highball WHITE PORT, ELDERFLOWER CORDIAL, LEMON & ANGOSTURA AROMATIC BITTERS TOPPED WITH PROSSECCO. Love Potion £7.50 hurricane PROSECCO, APPLE JUICE, FRESH MINT, GRAPEFRUIT BITTERS & LAVENDER SUGAR SYRUP. Straight Up Royal Mojito £9.50 coupe WRAY AND NEPHEW OVERPROOF RUM, LIME JUICE, HOMEMADE SUGAR SYRUP & FRESH MINT, TOPPED WITH CHAMPAGNE. Pink Champagne £11.50 flute FRESH RASPBERRIES, FRESH BLOOD ORANGE & ROSE SUGAR SYRUP, TOPPED WITH CHAMPAGNE. Drakes House Specials OUR TAKE ON SOME CLASSICS. Drakes Bloody Mary £10.50 highball CHASE SMOKED VODKA, TAWNY PORT, FRESH LEMON JUICE, TOMATO JUICE, WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE, TABASCO SAUCE, HORSERADISH SAUCE, CELERY BITTERS, BLACK PEPPER, SEA SALT & FRESH ROSEMARY. Drakes Vesper £8.50 coupe BRIGHTON GIN, ZUBROWKA VODKA, VELVET FALERNUM & GRAPEFRUIT BITTERS. Classic Cocktails FEEL FREE TO GO OFF MENU AND ASK YOUR BARTENDER FOR A RECOMMENDATION, CREATION OR CLASSIC. WE HAVE LISTED A FEW OF THE MOST POPULAR CLASSICS BELOW, JUST IN CASE YOU NEEDED A LITTLE INSPIRATION. Bellini, Blood & Sand, Brandy Alexander, Caipirinha, Classic Champagne, Clover Club, Collins, Cosmopolitan, Daiquiri, Espresso Martini, French 75, Godfather, Long Island Iced Tea, Mai Tai, Manhattan, Margarita, Martini, Mojito, Negroni, Old Fashioned, Pina Colada, Sours, Side Car, White Russian ...to name a few. Non-Alcoholic Cocktails NO ABV NO WORRIES. Candido £5.00 rocks POMEGRANATE JUICE, LEMON JUICE & ROSE MONIN SUGAR SYRUP WITH A GRAPEFRUIT ZEST. Celery &Cucumber Mojito £5.00 highball FRESH CUCUMBER, FRESH CELERY, FRESH MINT, FRESH LIME & ELDERFLOWER CORDIAL TOPPED UP WITH SODA. Candy Floss £5.00 hurricane PRESSED PINEAPPLE JUICE, FRESH RASPBERRIES, FRESH LEMON JUICE AND SUGAR SYRUP. Bottled Beer &Cider Moritz 5.0% lager £4.75 IN 2004 DESCENDANTS OF THE ORIGINALY FRENCH MORITZ FAMILY RELAUNCHED 330ml IT’S CATALAN BEER, A LOVELY BALANCE OF SWEET & BITTER. VERY DRINKABLE! Curious Brew 4.7% lager £5.25 CHAPEL DOWN WINERY ARE NOW USING THEIR WINE TECHNIQUES TO CREATE 330ml INNOVATIVE NEW BEERS. CURIOUS BREW IS MADE USING A CHAMPAGNE YEAST STRAIN. A PROPER ARTISANLAGER WITH FLAVOUR & BODY. Brighton Bier 4.0% pale ale £4.75 AS LOCAL AS LOCAL GETS! BREWED RIGHT DOWN THE ROAD HERE IN BRIGHTON TOWN. 330ml ‘ALL ROUNDER’ PALE ALE FOR ANY DAY AND EVERYBODY. PROGRESSIVE YET BALANCED, MOREISH & REFRESHING. DID WE MENTION IT’S VEGAN FRIENDLY? Camden Pale Ale 4.0% pale ale £5.25 PUNCHY AMERICAN HOPS THROW OUT A BIG AROMA OF GRAPEFRUIT, ORANGE AND 330ml TROPICAL FRUIT. THE BITTERNESS ROLLS IN & THEN ENDS DRY, MAKING YOU THIRSTY FOR ANOTHER GULP. Samuel Smiths Imperial Stout 7.0% stout £5.50 RICH FLAVOURFUL, DEEP CHOCOLATE COLOUR, SCENTED & ROASTED BARLEY NOSE. 330ml COMPLEXITY OF MALT, HOPS, ALCOHOL & YEAST. Luscombe Organic Cider 4.8% cider £4.75 BEAUTIFUL MEDIUM DRY DEVON CIDER, GROWN USING TRADITIONAL METHODS 330ml WITH NO PRESERVATIVES OR CHEMICALS. Bitburger Drive 0.0% lager £3.50 A GENUINE BITBURGER BEER, WITHOUT THE ALCOHOL. Gin & Genever 25ml/50ml GIN TAKEN AT ITS MOST BASIC, IT IS JUST A SPIRIT THAT IS FLAVOURED WITH JUNIPER. BUT BEHIND THAT SIMPLE FACADE LIES ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST COMPLEX & BEST LOVED SPIRITS, WITH A HISTORY THAT SPANS HUNDREDS OF YEARS & REACHES BACK TO THE DAWN OF DISTILLATION. LIGHT & FLORAL Arbikie Kirsty’s Gin (Highlands Scotland) £4.75/£9 Bloom (London Dry) £4/£7.50 Brighton Gin (Brighton, East Sussex) £4.50/£8.50 CITRUSY & FRESH Berkley Square (London Dry) £5/£9.50 Gin Lane 1751 (London Old Tom) £3.25/£6 Sacred (London Dry) £4/£7.50 FLAVOURFUL & FLORAL Brecon Gin (Wales) HOUSE £3.25/£6 Plymouth Gin (Plymouth) £4/£7.50 UNUSUAL & SAVOURY Cremorne Gentleman Badger’s Wild Blackthorne Sloe Gin (London) £3.25/£6 Ish (London Dry) £4/£7.50 St. George Terroir Gin (Alameda, California, U.S.A.) £5/£9.50 Van Wees Oude Genever (Netherlands) £5/£9.50 Gin & Tonic IF YOU ENJOY A G & T AS MUCH AS WE DO, THEN WHY NOT TAKE ONE OF OUR SUGGESTIONS BELOW AS THE PERFECT SERVE FOR THE GIN OF YOUR CHOICE? Pink Grapefruit, Dry Lavender & Fever-Tree Indian Tonic BRECON, SACRED, BLOOM Rosemary Sprig, Black Pepper & Fever-Tree Mediterranean Tonic PLYMOUTH, BERKLEY SQUARE, GIN LANE 1751, VAN WEES Orange Peel, Star Anise& Fever-Tree Indian Tonic BRIGHTON, BLOOM, SACRED, VAN WEES Fresh Lime, Fresh Cucumber & Fever-Tree Elderflower Tonic BLOOM, ISH, GIN LANE 1751 Fresh Lemon, Dry Lavender & Fever-Tree Lemon Tonic BRIGHTON, BLOOM, ARBIKIE Fresh Lemon, Thyme Sprig & Fever-Tree Mediterranean Tonic SACRED, PLYMOUTH, BERKLEY SQUARE Fresh Apple, Juniper Berries & Fever-Tree Indian Tonic BRECON, PLYMOUTH, ISH Fresh Strawberry, Black Pepper & Fever-Tree Lemon Tonic PLYMOUTH, BERKLEY SQUARE, ST GEORGE TERROIR WE KNOW THAT A G&T CAN BE A PERSONAL DRINK, SO PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU HAVE A PREFERRED SERVE! Vodka 25ml/50ml VODKA IS A CLEAR SPIRIT THAT CAN BE PRODUCED FROM ANYTHING CONTAINING STARCH, THE MOST COMMON BASES INCLUDING POTATOES, SUGAR BEET MOLASSES AND GRAIN. IT IS A MUCH MORE INTERESTING SPIRIT THAN IT MIGHT FIRST APPEAR. RYE SILKY SMOOTH WITH LIGHT FLAVOURS OF VANILLA AND A HINT OF BLACK PEPPER. Wyborowa (Poland) HOUSE £3.25/£6 Zubrowka (Poland) £3.50/£6.50 POTATO SMOOTH WITH A NATURALLY SWEET AND CREAMY TASTE. Vestal Unfiltered (Poland) £5/£9.50 Vestal Pomorze Unfiltered (Poland) £6/£11.50 BARLEY CLEAN PALATE WITH AN ALMOST NEUTRAL SMELL AND A LIGHT HINT OF PEPPERY FINISH Sipsmith (United Kingdom) £4.25/£8 UNUSUAL THIS SECTION HAS OUR MORE UNUSUAL VODKAS IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT. THEY ARE DEFINITELY WORTH A TASTE. Black Cow Milk Vodka (United Kingdom) £4/£7.50 PURE MILK VODKA MADE ENTIRELY FROM THE MILK OF GRASS GRAZED COWS AND NOTHING ELSE. EXCEPTIONALLY SMOOTH VODKA WITH A UNIQUE CREAMY CHARACTER U’luvka Blended Grain Vodka (Poland) £5/£9.50 CREAMY AND LIGHTLY BUTTERY IN CHARACTER, WITH IMPRESSIVE SWEET, SAVOURY AND SPICY FLAVOURS. Chase Smoked Vodka (United Kingdom) £5/£9.50 UNUSUAL LIMITED EDITION VODKA, SMOKED WITH ENGLISH OAK FOR AN INTRIGUINGLY DELICIOUS FLAVOUR. POTATO BASED, BUT FELT IT HAS EARNT ITS PLACE IN THIS SECTION. Tequila & Mezcal 25ml/50ml BEYOND SHOTS, SLAMMERS AND HANGOVERS, TEQUILA IS A REMARKABLE DRINK WHICH CAN EXPRESS THE NUANCES OF ITS RAW MATERIAL ARGUABLY BETTER THAN ANY OTHER SPIRIT ON THE PLANET. BLANCO THIS IS THE PLACE TO COME IF YOU WANT TRUE, UNADULTERED AGAVE FLAVOURS. BLANCO TEQUILAS, ALSO KNOWN AS PLATA OR SILVER, ARE AGED FOR LESS THAN TWO MONTHS AND AS SUCH CONVEY THE ESSENCE OF THE AGAVE. Tapatio Blanco HOUSE £4/£7.50 Chinaco Blanco £5.50/£10.50 REPOSADO REPOSADO (RESTED) TEQUILAS SPEND AT LEAST TWO MONTHS BUT LESS THAN A YEAR RESTING IN OAK BARRELS. AFTER AGEING, THEY GENERALLY HAVE A GOOD BALANCE BETWEEN AGAVE AND WOOD. Chamucos £5.75/£11.00 ANEJO THESE TEQUILAS SPEND AT LEAST ONE YEAR BUT LESS THAN THREE AGEING IN WOODEN BARRELS. THEY ARE MORE COMPLEX AND RICH IN FLAVOUR. Tapatio Anejo £5/£9.50 EXTRA ANEJO THESE TEQUILAS SPEND A MINIMUM OF THREE YEARS AGEING IN WOODEN BARRELS AND ARE EXTREMELY SMOOTH AND COMPLEX. Ocho Extra Anejo £9/£17.50 MEZCAL SIMILAR TO TEQUILA IT MUST BE DISTILLED FROM THE AGAVE PLANT. HOWEVER, THE TYPE OF AGAVE, THE STATE OF WHICH IT IS DISTILLED AND DISTILLATION METHODS ARE ALL DIFFERENT, AND CONTRIBUTE TO BOTH THE FINAL PRODUCT AND THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE SPIRIT IN QUESTION Santo Domingo Albarradas £10/£19 Enmascado £7/£13.50 Rum & Cachaça 25ml/50ml THE MULTICULTURAL TAPESTRY OF RUM STYLES SPANNING THE CARIBBEAN, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA IS AS RICH AS THE HISTORY AND CULTURE THAT ENCIRCLES THIS GREAT SPIRIT.