The Cocktail Trading Co.

The Cocktail Trading Co. is a small London bar company founded by three lifelong bartenders who wanted a business that runs great bars and gives back to the bar world. Its family of bars is the original Cocktail Trading Co. on Bethnal Green Road in Shoreditch, Murder Inc, a neighbourhood basement cocktail bar on Hanway Street between Soho and Fitzrovia, and London Cocktail Exchange (formerly the Royal Cocktail Exchange) on Windmill Street, Fitzrovia, which also houses the group's cocktail masterclass workshop. The company is cooperative in structure, with the directors working the same shifts as the team, and prices its cocktails at a flat rate; the founders also run a bar consultancy and collaborate on Her Majesty's Secret Service and Filthy XIII in Bristol.

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London Cocktail Exchange

London Cocktail Exchange, formerly the Royal Cocktail Exchange, is The Cocktail Trading Co.'s neighbourhood cocktail bar on Windmill Street, minutes from Tottenham Court Road and Goodge Street stations. A sunny ground-floor bar with outdoor tables and spritzes on draft sits above a low-lit speakeasy-style downstairs bar for around 50, plus the Cocktail Workshop where the group hosts its cocktail masterclasses; its Lineage menu reworks beloved classics, and the bar offers private hire and packages.

Murder Inc

Murder Inc is a cute independent neighbourhood cocktail bar on Hanway Street, just off Oxford Circus between Soho and Fitzrovia, part of The Cocktail Trading Co. family. It serves great, inexpensive, not-over-complicated cocktails and nachos under red neon until the early hours, with an outrageously experienced team; cocktail masterclasses run at its sister bar London Cocktail Exchange five minutes up the road.