Bring On the Sunshine With Selfridges’ Roof Deck’s Summer Sour Cocktail

Selfridges’ Roof Deck Restaurant Bar is open for another summer of punch-packing cocktails and rooftop antics, this year in collaboration with restaurateur Des McDonald. Taking inspiration from sun-soaked California, the menu concentrates on American West Coast flavours: cobb salads laden with avocado and fava beans, salmon and sea salt bakes beets, spicy shrimp, blistered corn and coal-grilled burgers with mango and chipotle salsa. A retractable roof crowns a timber boardwalk framed with tropical palms and a private cabana festooned with fairy lights, all offering stunning views of London’s skyline. Here, talented assistant head bartender Daniel Garcia gives us the recipe for Summer Sour, a sharp-sweet gin-based concoction laced with agave syrup, refreshing hints of cucumber, and a final kick of black pepper.

SUMMER SOUR

1. Shake all the ingredients dry, twice over.
2. Double strain into a glass.
3. Garnish with an edible flower and black pepper.