Easy Tequila Cocktails For National Tequila Day

You either love it, or it brings back terrible flashbacks of nights out you can’t fully remember! Either way, 24 July marks National Tequila Day.

Whether you’ve only knocked back Mexico’s national drink in shots with salt and wedges of lime, or your homemade frozen margs are legendary, or if you prefer to sip refined tequila, we have a few simple cocktails to celebrate the day!

Tequila Negroni

A classy take on a traditionally gin-based cocktail.

25 ml tequila

25 ml sweet red vermouth

25 ml bitter orange aperitivo

Combine all the ingredients into a lowball glass, add some with ice and stir to chill.

Tequila Sunrise

The tequila sunrise comes from 1970s Sausalito, California, and is now well established as a classic cocktail.

2 tsp grenadine

50ml tequila

1 tbsp triple sec

1 large orange, or 2 small ones, juiced

Half a lemon, juiced

1 cocktail cherry

Add ice, tequila, triple sec and fruit juices into a cocktail shaker and shake until the shaker feels cold to the touch in your hands. Pour the bright red grenadine into the bottom of a tall thin glass and add ice cubes. Then, carefully double strain the cocktail into it, taking care not to mix the liquid with the grenadine layer at the bottom too much. Finish with a cherry on a stick!

Classic Margarita

This short cocktail mixes tequila with triple sec and lime juice and salt for a drink with a kick.

Salt

50ml tequila

20ml triple sec (or Cointreau)

25ml lime juice

2 lime wedges

Cover a small plate with a few teaspoons of salt. Grab a wedge of lime, and rub it along the rim of your cocktail glass before dipping the glass into the salt dish. Make sure the entire rim of the glass is covered in salt.

Next, fill a cocktail shaker with ice, add tequila, lime juice and triple sec and shake until the outside of the shaker feels cold.

Strain the mixture into the salted glass over the ice and remember to garnish with a wedge of lime.

Don’t blame us for any missing hours or hangovers, but you can come to get the hair-of-the-dog at our Covent Garden cocktail bar!