Our Rooftop Restaurant Cocktail Bar serves a selection of alcoholic and non alcoholic favourites, as well as some fresh new surprises.

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This is a sample menu - ingredients and selection may change

SHOW-THEMED COCKTAILS

Inspired by Middlemarch

MISS BROOKE

This zesty cocktail is inspired by the lead role in Middlemarch – the idealistic Dorothea Brooke. Feisty, intelligent and draped in the colour blue, our cocktail resembles one of Eliot’s most beloved characters.

Blue flavour gin, sugar syrup, green chartreuse, lemon juice and italicus
£13.95

PROVINCIAL LIFE (Mocktail)

A nod to the beautiful provinces of Warwickshire, and the fictional town of Middlemarch itself. Floral and fresh, just like the rolling hills around us.

Blue flower syrup, caleño, lynes, sugar syrup, mint and lemonade

£6.50

SPARKLING SELECTION

RSC Royale 
Framboise, chambord, rose syrup & prosecco
£11.95

The Strudel
Bourbon, apple Juice, cinnamon syrup, lemon Juice, ginger beer and mint
£11.95

Forager’s Fizz
Sloe Gin, crème de cassis, rosemary syrup, lemon juice, prosecco and Blackberry
£12.95

THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT

Killing Thyme 
Bulleit bourbon, lemon juice, thyme syrup, orange bitters & fresh orange
£12.95

Be Right Back (BRB)
Cachaça, blackberry syrup, raspberry syrup, lime juice & blueberries
£12.95

Rhubarb and Ginger Sour
Rhubarb gin, ginger syrup, lemon juice, vegan egg white & fresh ginger
11.95

Queen’s Park Swizzle
Havana dark rum, lime juice, demerara sugar syrup, angostura bitters & mint
£12.95

Maple and Peacan Old Fashioned (Contains Tree Nuts)
Bourbon, maple & pecan syrup, angostura bitters & orange bitters
£12.95

ON A PEDESTAL

Basil & Elderflower Smash
Hendrick's gin, st germain, lemon juice, gomme & basil
£12.95

Persephone’s Promise
Disaronno, port, pomegranate juice, lemon juice, gomme & vegan egg white and beetroot powder
£11.95

Wink Wink
Absolut vanilla, strawberry syrup, fraise & double cream
£11.95

A Peely Good Time
Silver tequila, lime juice, cointreau, fresh orange & house made orange syrup
£11.95

THE CLASSICS

If you don’t see your favourite, just ask, we’ll see what we can whip up!

Martini
Vodka | Gin | Vesper | Espresso
Ask your server for your options
£11.95

Spritz
Aperol | Campari | St Germain
With prosecco and soda water
£12.95

Cosmopolitan
Absolut Vodka, cranberry juice, Cointreau, lime juice, Gomme
£10.95

Margarita
Classic | Spiced | Strawberry
Tequila silver, Cointreau, lime juice, Gomme
£11.95

White Linen
Hendrick's Gin, St-Germain, lime juice, Gomme, cucumber, soda
£12.95

Passionfruit Martini

Absolute Vanilla, Passoa, passionfruit syrup, lime juice, Prosecco
£12.95

Bramble
Beefeater gin, crème de cassis, lime juice, gomme & blackberries
£10.95

SOBER SIPS

PG Martini
Pineapple juice, apple juice, lime juice, vanilla syrup, passion fruit syrup, 0% Prosecco
£7.95

Gingerbread Espresso Marti-no
Espresso, water, gomme & gingerbread syrup
£6.95

Mint-to-be 
Caleño, lemon juice, elderflower syrup, basil, mint, cucumber
£6.95

Rosmarinus
Caleño, lemon juice, rosemary syrup
£6.50

Boozeless Bramble
Blackberry or green apple syrup
Caleño, soda, lime juice, blackberry / green apple syrup
£6.50


Please ask your bartender or waiter if your favourite cocktail is not on our menu or - if you fancy something a bit different - we will always do whatever we can.

There's no need to book a table for the Cocktail Bar, just head up to the Rooftop Restaurant on Level 3 of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre during normal restaurant opening hours, and discover all of the mixological magic on offer.