Salvatore Calabrese on classic cocktails with a twist The Whispering Mill This is a twist on the White Lady, a gin and Cointreau classic created in the Twenties by the Savoy's bar manager Harry Craddock. Shake 50ml vodka, 25ml Cointreau, 25ml lemon juice and two teaspoons of white grapefruit juice over ice and strain into a glass. Twist some orange peel over the drink to release the oils, flame the zest with a lighter, then drop into the drink. The grapefruit gives a pleasant bitterness and the orange adds a smoky aroma. Tommy's Margarita If you want an easy-to-drink twist on the Margarita, recreate the recipe sold in Tommy's Mexican Restaurant in San Francisco. Shake together 50ml tequila reposados, 25ml lime juice and 20ml agave syrup, rather than the traditional Cointreau. The agave syrup adds sweetness to the citrus, so it almost tastes like lemon meringue pie. Serve over ice with a wedge of lime and drink after dinner. tommystequila.com Breakfast Martini I invented this twist on the Martini after my wife gave me marmalade on toast for breakfast. To make it, shake 50ml gin, 15ml lemon juice, 15ml of Cointreau and 1½ teaspoons of Wilkins shredded orange marmalade over ice, strain and top with shredded orange zest. The tangy bitterness of the marmalade really plays with your taste buds. Try it for breakfast; I know plenty of customers who do. The Cosmopolitan Most people don't realise that the Cosmopolitan is a modern twist on the Kamikaze shot cocktail of the Fifties, which was basically vodka, triple sec and lime juice, drunk very quickly! Then the Eighties fitness boom happened, cranberry juice became popular and the Cosmo was born. Shake 50ml vodka, 15ml Cointreau, 15ml lime juice and 30ml cranberry juice over ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Simple but tasty. Field's French 75 The original cocktail was created during the First World War to celebrate the French 75 light field gun. It combined a hint of gin, 50ml lemon juice and 10ml sugar syrup before being topped with champagne. But Colin Field, the manager of the Hemingway Bar in Paris's Ritz Hotel, created a great twist by increasing the gin to 25ml, skipping the champagne and serving long over ice. A perfect summer drink. ritzparis.com 'Salvatore's" is at 14 Old Park Lane, W1K 1ND, 020 7491 8586; salvatore-calabrese.co.uk