The Cocktail Trading Co.

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CTC was formed in 2014 by lifelong bartenders and pals, and nothing's changed – the plan was always to take the best drinks we could do and throw 'em at happy people in the most welcoming atmosphere we could muster.

Colours of Pride X Schweppes – where bars insist on phrasing collaborations like they’re a Pitbull song. 🤍The hospo worl...
17/06/2026

Colours of Pride X Schweppes – where bars insist on phrasing collaborations like they’re a Pitbull song. 🤍

The hospo world is built on community and creating spaces where everyone that walks through the door can feel welcome and at home, so we’ve joined forces with the gorgeous bubbly f***s at to celebrate the people who make that community so exquisitely diverse — bringing together 12 LGBTQIA+ bartenders from 12 bars across London.

Using the Pride flag colour wheel and a Schweppes expression, each bartender has knocked up a drink that speaks to them. Our own .goose has created ‘Divergence Point’, with £1 of every drink sold being donated to .

Divergence Point
Fruity, zesty, floral.


Honeydew Cordial
Cherry Blossom
Schweppes Slimline Tonic

Available from June 22nd to July 5th. Happy Pride.

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Ideally, we would post this in June so we could post about our new Carbonite Martini and simultaneously crush a Father’s...
04/05/2026

Ideally, we would post this in June so we could post about our new Carbonite Martini and simultaneously crush a Father’s Day post, but you can’t have it all. Anyway, Happy Star Wars Day - May the fourth be with you, etc.

Carbonite Martini
Stronger than a rancor and colder than Han in Episodes 2–3 (...and 8–9)

4 parts frozen Vodka
1 part vermouth, from a galaxy far away (Europe)
Optional drops ‘dark side tincture’

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Next Sunday: some proper sound bastards (namely , & ) are gonna do some proper delicious and loveable stuff in our gaff...
19/04/2026

Next Sunday: some proper sound bastards (namely , & ) are gonna do some proper delicious and loveable stuff in our gaff. Come, or live a life of regret.

Fire any RSVPs for the tasting over to [email protected]

Xoxo

We arrive at the end of the Spring Break calendar, which, if you’re in the UK, means there’s a high percentage chance yo...
12/04/2026

We arrive at the end of the Spring Break calendar, which, if you’re in the UK, means there’s a high percentage chance you’ve just got back from Butlin’s with the kids, so have a renewed sense of what silence means and relief that at every turn there isn’t a Shetland pony ride that cost a grand. If you’re in the UNITED STATES, however, like this drink is relevant to, then you still have 4 dollar picante dripping from your eyeballs and PETA on your back for riding that Dolphin. Worth it.

Well, someone had to bring the Spring Break to Shoreditch, and I think the time for words is over, now just pictures and emotions - you’re welcome, no we’re not sorry, and happy Sunday.

Oh also,

Miami Wallbanger
Tropical, slushie, unapologetic
3 parts Vodka
1 wee bottle strawberry marg
1 part Galliano Autentico

Pic courtesy of who has finished bleaching his eyes from that second pic now probably.

Celebrate ’sDay the only way any of us know how—by drinking enough of our specials to sedate a small herd of livestoc...
12/03/2026

Celebrate ’sDay the only way any of us know how—by drinking enough of our specials to sedate a small herd of livestock. Available from now, all the way through to the big day. Courtesy of the ever lust-worthy gang at &

In le pic:
The Meadkeeper’s Diary
2 parts Bushmills 12
1 part Bitter Mead
1 part Orange & Caraway Vermouth

Seems like a fine day to show the next drink on our menu - the Randy Alexander, inspired by Ice Cream For Breakfast Day,...
07/02/2026

Seems like a fine day to show the next drink on our menu - the Randy Alexander, inspired by Ice Cream For Breakfast Day, which is a) a real thing, and b) today.

At some point we think the team crossed the naughtiness of ice cream early on with another form of naughtiness, and that’s how the word Randy got in there, but also meant could dress as Randy Savage and scream a bedtime story at them.

Sorry where were we? Oh yeah.

The Randy Alexander - VS Cognac, actual French Toast syrup, coffee-morello Creme Anglaise - churned up all delish, garnished with whipped cream and a stroopwaffel, which is also really fun to say.

And um, not that we should have to say this, but the team do not, in fact, finish shift and cuddle up on one of the banquettes until the next.

We think.

Picture the scene - it’s Blue Monday, you hate your job. It’s all just one step after another - going somewhere worse th...
19/01/2026

Picture the scene - it’s Blue Monday, you hate your job. 

It’s all just one step after another - going somewhere worse than nowhere; the same damn place but with the timer one fiscal quarter closer to the tombstone, where you’ll once again be in a row of soulless monuments, each a tribute less to a life, more to the lack of one.

Sorry, completely blacked out there, what were we talking about? And what’s this, an email from HR? Could it be…

The day is saved, friends.

Finally, you’ve been fired.

Rejoice (with a Blue Monday, first drink on the new menu...)

📸 courtesy of

4 years of There are oh-so-many gushy things to say about the lady who came on board straight into the post-covid f**ke...
14/01/2026

4 years of

There are oh-so-many gushy things to say about the lady who came on board straight into the post-covid f**kery, steadily became a bunch of genuinely really important roles like head of training across the bars, but the real juice is what she’s done beyond that, which is, beyond any doubt, be company mum. We say it a lot, but it never ain’t true.

Anyway, 4 years also means she’s been in a ton of our dumb photo shoots thanks to , so here ya go. Here’s what y’all came here for.

As ever, lova ya Kell.

29/12/2025

CLOSED UNTIL FRIDAY, friendos.

Why? Well we’ve been beavering away on this new menu, and as you’ll all discover, it’s rather tied to the time of year, necessitating a launch right at the start of 2026 (excepting NYD, we all know what that’s for).

This means today and tomorrow will involve us doing frightful amounts of prep and taking the bar apart to rebuild, a little like that odd fella who can seemingly make a Millennium Falcon out of any lego set.

Closed Wednesday too because NYE is grim and we’ll be having a staff party thank you, and then Thursday is for self-care, soooooo…

See you Friday.

X

11/12/2025

PSA: Closed for a private event tonight, team. Back at it tomorrow.

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68 Bethnal Green Road
London
E16GQ

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Monday 5pm - 11:30pm
Tuesday 5pm - 11:30pm
Wednesday 5pm - 11:30pm
Thursday 5pm - 11:30pm
Friday 5pm - 12am
Saturday 2pm - 12am
Sunday 2pm - 11pm

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