Cocktail Bars Of The Week

Fancy a Velvet Voodoo? Or perhaps the Gin-Gin Mule is more your style? Andy Lynes mixes it with the best

Winner of Best Bar in the 2005 Awards, Trailer Happiness, at 177 Portobello Road, London (020-7727 2700; trailerhappiness.com), serves potent 1950s-style "Tiki" drinks such as Velvet Voodoo, made from tequila, pineapple, curaçao, apry, bitters, lime and apple juices.

Colin P Field of Bar Hemingway, Hôtel Ritz Paris, at 15 place Vendôme (00 33 1 43 16 30 70, ritzparis.com), serves a Picasso Martini made from a cube of Noilly Pratt dropped into gin held at exactly 18.4C.

The Pegu Club, at 77 W Houston Street, New York (00 1 212 473 7348; peguclub.com), serves a Gin-Gin Mule - made with gin lime, mint and ginger beer - come with eyedroppers containing shots of lemon and lime juice, bitters and sugar syrup.

You'll need to reserve a 45-minute slot and don a special cape if you want to drink fruity vodka cocktails in the -5C atmosphere of Absolut Ice Bar, at 29-33 Heddon Street, London (020-7287 9192; belowzerolondon.com). Every- thing - the bar stools, bar and cocktail glasses - are made from ice.

The Bondi Crush at the first-floor bar at Icebergs, at 1 Notts Avenue, Bondi Beach, Sydney (00 61 2 9365 9000; idrb.com), is made from Pimm's, gin, watermelon, fresh mint and ginger.

Connoisseurs and more than the odd tourist flock to Harry's Bar, at San Marco 1323, Calle Vallaresso, Venice (00 39 41 528 5777; cipriani.com), for the famous Bellinis made from prosecco and white-peach juice.

Barman Francesco has been keeping his martinis dry in the bar of the Excelsior Hotel, at Via Partenope 48, Naples (00 39 081 7640111, excelsior.it) for the past 27 years.

Where better to enjoy a mojito made from rum, mint, sugar, lime and club soda than at the famous Terraza La Mina, at Obispo 109, Esquina Oficios, Plaza de Armas, La Habana Vieja, in Havana (00 53 7 862 0216)?