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The Gats List
Every great cocktail has a story. This is ours.
Created by Adam Jobson — The Suave Bartender — and Miguel Harichi.
The Gats List is more than a collection of recipes. It is our exploration of the drinks, techniques, stories and ideas that made us fall in love with this craft in the first place.
It begins with six cocktails.
Six drinks that helped shape the culture we know today. From there, we pull back the curtain - exploring the spirits behind the drinks, the tools we reach for, the techniques that transform ingredients, and the small details that can turn a good cocktail into an exceptional one.
Along the way, you’ll find the classics that built cocktail culture, the modern drinks carrying it forward, and the signatures that tell a little more of our own stories.
This isn’t about telling you what to drink.
It’s about making you curious enough to create.
Welcome to The Gats List
Inside The List
The recipe is only the beginning.
The Gats List was created to take you beyond what goes into the glass and into why it works.
We begin with the Original Six - six cocktails that helped shape the culture of drinking as we know it. From there, we explore the foundations behind every great serve: spirits and liqueurs, the tools behind the bar, technique, balance, dilution, temperature and the anatomy of a cocktail.
Then we start creating.
Homemade syrups, cordials and preparations lead into the classics, the modern icons that followed them, and finally, our own signature cocktails - each accompanied by the stories and experiences that inspired them.
From your first shake to finding your own signature,
The Gats List was built for curiosity.
Inside The List
The recipe is only the beginning.
I — THE FOUNDATIONS
Original Six · Spirits & Liqueurs · Bar Tools · Technique
II — THE CRAFT
Anatomy of a Cocktail · Ice · Dilution · Temperature · The Gats Pantry
III — THE LIST
Classics · Modern Classics · Adam’s Signatures · Miguel’s Signatures
From understanding the classics to creating something entirely your own.
Two Bartenders. Two Cities. One List.
Some ideas take years to find their moment.
Adam and Miguel first met in London in 2019, behind the bar at Pasha. What began with bartending quickly became mentorship, friendship and a shared obsession with creating something memorable.
From there, our paths couldn’t have looked more different.
Adam continued building The Suave Bartender in the UK, developing cocktails, menus and collaborations across the industry. Miguel’s journey eventually took him across the Atlantic to Los Angeles.
Different cities. Different experiences. The same conversations about cocktails, hospitality and what we wanted to create.
Years later, those conversations became The Gats List.
Not one person’s approach to bartending, but two perspectives brought together - our experiences, our stories, the drinks that shaped us and the ones we’ve created along the way.
London started the story.
Los Angeles gave it another
The Gats List brought it back together.
ADAM JOBSON
THE SUAVE BARTENDER
London / United Kingdom
For Adam, bartending became more than a job a long time ago. It became an obsession with the details - the balance of a drink, the theatre behind its creation, the story behind a classic, and the way genuine hospitality can turn a simple cocktail into something people remember.
That obsession eventually became The Suave Bartender - not a character, but an extension of how Adam approaches the craft: with elegance, curiosity, creativity and the belief that the smallest details often make the biggest difference.
His journey has taken him through bars, hotels, competitions, collaborations and countless hours experimenting behind the stick. Along the way, cocktails became his canvas - a place to take everything he had learned and start asking, what else is possible?
That philosophy runs throughout The Gats List. From the foundations of the craft to the techniques, stories and signatures inside it, Adam’s contribution is built around one idea: learn the rules, understand why they work, then earn the right to play with them.
The bar started the journey. Curiosity shaped the bartender.
The Gats List became the place to put it all down.
MIGUEL HARICHI
Los Angeles / United States
Miguel’s journey behind the bar began with curiosity - learning the craft, understanding the classics, and developing a style of his own.
What started behind the bar in London would eventually take him somewhere neither of us could have predicted. His path changed, his world got considerably bigger, and eventually Los Angeles became home.
But the drinks never disappeared.
Miguel brings a different perspective to The Gats List. Where our experiences have taken us in different directions, the thing that brought us together in the first place has remained the same: a genuine love for hospitality, creativity and making people feel something.
His signatures are a reflection of that journey - playful, expressive and unmistakably his.
London started the story. Los Angeles gave it another chapter.
The Gats List brought it back together.
MORE THAN A COCKTAIL BOOK
Elegance. Curiosity. Creativity. Hospitality.
The Gats List was built around a simple belief: cocktails are about far more than what ends up in the glass.
They’re about the details. The atmosphere. The story behind the drink. The person making it, and the person it’s being made for.
We wanted to create something that respects the history of the craft without being trapped by it. Something that teaches the foundations, encourages experimentation and, above all, makes you curious.
Because the best cocktail books shouldn’t just give you recipes.
They should make you want to create.
THE STORY IS ONLY BEGINNING
The Gats List is currently in development. A cocktail book built from years behind the bar and a shared obsession with the craft.
What began as a shared idea between two bartenders has grown into something far bigger - a record of where we’ve been, what we’ve learned, and where we believe cocktail culture can go next.
The book is coming.
And this is only the first chapter.