Get in the holiday spirit with toasty holiday drink recipes from local hotels, resorts, and bars in the Greater Phoenix area. These fall-forward cocktails will inspire you for the cozy days ahead as you sip on drinks with specialties such as eggnog-infused spirits or a toasted marshmallow topping. Whatever your preferences are—tequila, whiskey, vodka, rum, or non-alcoholic—there's something here for everyone.
Add a spirited taste of Phoenix to your holiday lineup with the official city cocktail: "The Phoenix." Created by a local mixologist, this drink blends creativity and flavor for a sip that’s unmistakably Phoenix. Discover "The Phoenix" and how to make it your signature holiday drink here.
Hotels & Resorts
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Smoked Old Fashioned from Arizona Biltmore
Stir all ingredients and strain on the rocks. Garnish with chocolate dipped cherry. Infused with an Aromatic Smoke.
2 oz Maker’s Mark Bourbon
3 dashes Angostura Bitters
.25 oz Simple Syrup
Chocolate Dipped Cherry
Partridge in a Pear Tree from Arizona Biltmore
Mix all ingredients in a mixing tin with 1 scoop of ice and strain into gold glitter rimmed coupe glass. Garnish with dried pear.
2 oz Stoli Vanilla Vodka
.75 oz Pear Liqueur
.75 oz Elderflower Liqueur
.5 oz Lime Juice
.5 oz Tres Agave
Dried Pear with Gold Glitter – Garnish
Dirty Snowman from Arizona Biltmore
Pour all ingredients in glass mug and top with hot chocolate. Garnish with whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles.
1 oz Kahlua
1 oz Rum Chata
1 oz Baileys
.75 oz White Crème de Cacao
Toast the Trails at Cress on Oak Creek at L'Auberge de Sedona
Mix all ingredients in a mixing tin with 1 scoop of ice and strain into coupe glass. Garnish with lemon verbena and sage.
1.5 oz Gin
.5 oz Herb infused syrup
3 oz Pomegranate juice
Top with sparkling water
Celebrate your winter adventure with Toast the Trails, our seasonal cocktail at Cress on Oak Creek. This refreshing blend of gin, pomegranate juice, fresh lemon, and a hint of sage is the perfect way to unwind after a morning or afternoon hike. Explore Sedona’s scenic trails under the warm sun, then snuggle up by the firepit and savor a drink that captures the spirit of the season—crafted to toast the trails and the memories made along the way.
Candy Cane Crush at Grand Hyatt Scottsdale Resort
Mix all ingredients in a mixing tin with ice and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a candy cane.
1.5 oz Belvedere vodka
1.5 oz Rumple Minze
.5 oz Simple Syrup
.5 oz Heavy Cream
Candy Cane Dust Rim
One Spiced Pear Old Fashioned at Hearth '61 at Mountain Shadows Resort
Stir all ingredients in mixing tin and strain on the rocks.
1.5 oz bourbon
.5 oz spiced pear
.25 oz simple syrup
2 dashes angostura bitters
Six Blood Orange Grey Goose Cosmo at Hearth '61 at Mountain Shadows Resort
Mix all ingredients in a mixing tin with ice and strain into martini glass. Garnish with lemon twist.
1.5 oz Grey Goose
.5 oz Aperol
.25 oz Cointreau
.5 oz lime juice
.25 oz simple syrup
.5 oz blood orange juice
Seven Swans-A-Swimming at Hearth '61 at Mountain Shadows Resort
Mix all ingredients in a mixing tin with ice and strain into peppermint rimmed martini glass.
1 oz peppermint
1 oz vanilla vodka
1 oz Bacardi rum
Maroni with a crushed peppermint rim
Twelve Drums-A-Drumming Manhattan at Hearth '61 at Mountain Shadows Resort
Pour ingredients into a rocks glass with a large ice cube.
2 oz rye
1 oz Six Grapes Graham’s Port
Cherry Berry Christmas! at Hilton Garden Inn Phoenix North Happy Valley
Shake all ingredients in a mixing tin with ice and strain into a martini glass with blueberry holiday sprinkles and garnished with decadent chocolate covered acai blueberries.
1.5 oz Smirnoff Cherry Vodka
1 oz Apple Juice
1 oz Grenadine
Float Martinelli's Sparkling Cider
Shaken. Not Stirred.
Poinsettia Cocktail at Litchfield's at The Wigwam
Shake ingredients with ice and edible glitter, strain into flute, top with sparkling wine or prosecco, garnish with rosemary and fresh cranberries.
5 oz Cointreau
2 oz cranberry juice
Sparkling wine or Prosecco
Winter Margarita at Litchfield's at The Wigwam
Shake ingredients with ice. Strain over fresh ice in sugar-rimmed glass, top with club soda, garnish with lime wheel and optional rosemary and fresh cranberries.
2 oz Tres Generaciones Plata Tequila,
1 oz Cointreau
2 oz Coconut Real
.5 oz Lime juice
Club soda
Unwrapped at Melinda's Alley at Renaissance Phoenix Downtown Hotel
Batch it all up in a crock pot on "low". Serve in a warmed mug, and cheers "To Old Friends and New"!
2 oz Diplimatico Familia Rum (infused with Apple and Mulling Spices)
.5oz Smith & Cross Jamaican Pot Still Rum
.5 oz St. George Spiced Pear Liqueur
.25 oz Averna Amaro
.5 oz 3:1 Mesquite Honey Syrup
4 dashes Bitter Truth "Jerry Thomas" Bitters
Miss Mistletoe at J&G Steakhouse at The Phoenician
Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake vigorously. Pour ginger beer into a highball glass and add double strained cocktail. Fill generously with ice and garnish with a fresh sprig of rosemary and brandied cherry.
1.5 oz Tito’s Vodka
.75 oz Cherry Heering liqueur
.75 oz Pimm’s Liquor
.5 oz Rosemary Syrup
.5 oz Lime juice, freshly squeezed
2 dashes Angostura bitters
1.5 oz Ginger Beer
Fall From the Tree at Mowry & Cotton at The Phoenician
Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake vigorously, strain into a coup glass and top with sparkling apple cider. Garnish with sliced apple and sprinkle with edible gold glitter dust.
1.5 oz Laird’s Applejack whiskey
.5 oz cinnamon syrup
.75 oz lemon juice, freshly squeezed
1 dash Angostura bitters
1 oz sparkling apple cider
Garnish: apple slice & Gold Luster dust
Rosemary Ginger Fizz at The Phoenician Tavern at The Phoenician
Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker and double strain into a tulip glass, top with ginger beer and garnish with a fresh sprig of rosemary & lemon twist.
2 oz Drumshanbo Gin
.75 oz Domaine de Canton Ginger Liqueur
.5 oz Rosemary simple syrup
.25 oz Lemon juice, freshly squeezed
1.5 oz Ginger Beer
Gingerbread Manhattan at The Phoenician Tavern at The Phoenician
Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake vigorously, strain into a coup glass, garnish with cinnamon stick.
2 oz Whistlepig Piggyback Rye
1 oz Carpano Antica Sweet Vermouth
1 oz Gingerbread syrup
Feliz Navidad at Selfmade at Hotel Adeline
Stir all ingredients and strain into a double rocks glass with a large cube.
1.5 oz Buffalo Trace
.5 oz Ancho Reyes liqueur
.5 oz Holiday Spiced syrup
Dash Orange bitters
Raisin' a Toast to You! at Selfmade at Hotel Adeline
Shake all ingredients in a mixing tin with ice pour into Coupe glass with Salted Caramel rim.
1.5 oz Meyers Dark rum
.5 oz Baileys
1 oz Raisin simple syrup
.5 oz Half & half
O Tennenbaum! at Selfmade at Hotel Adeline
Shake all ingredients (except the Prosecco) in a mixing tin with ice and strain into a champagne glass. Top with Prosecco and garnish with Rosemary sprig.
1 oz Corazon Blanco
1 oz Rosemary Syrup
.25 oz Lime
.25 oz Coconut Real
3 oz Prosecco
Mexcal Hot Chocolate at The Ritz Carlton, Dove Mountain
1.5 oz Del Maguey Mezcal
1 oz Crème de cacao
1 oz Mozart Chocolate Cream
1 hot chocolate bomb
1.8 oz Steamed milk
Restaurants
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Angry Strawberry Margarita at Aunt Chilada's Tempe
Shake all ingredients in a mixing tin with ice and strain into salt rimmed rocks glass. Garnish with a lime.
1.5 oz 21 Seeds Cucumber Jalapeno Tequila
.75 oz Triple Sec
.75 oz Lime Juice
.75 oz Liquid Alchemist Strawberry
.25 oz Agave Nectar
Frosty Hopper at Hash Kitchen
Ground up the mint Oreos in a food processor. Rim the glass with chocolate fudge as well as drizzle inside the glass. Dip the rim in the ground mint Oreos. In a cocktail shaker, add vodka, crème de menthe, cream, dark chocolate. Add ice and shake for 15 seconds. Dump liquid and ice into pre rimmed glass. Garnish with 1 Oreo and 1 mini candy cane
1 oz Vodka
.75 oz Crème de menthe
1 oz Dark chocolate liqueur
1 oz Heavy cream
HOHOHO at The Mexicano
Fill mixing tin with ice, add lime juice, agave, fireball and Blanco tequila and shake well. Rim margarita glass with crushed candy cane, use agave to help it stick to rim. Fill glass with fresh ice. Stain mixing tin contents into fresh iced margarita glass. Finish with a pinch more of crushed candy cane on top of margarita.
.75 oz Blanco tequila
.75 oz Fire ball
.75 oz Coconut
1 oz Lime juice
.5 oz agave
Crushed candy cane and 1 whole candy cane
XMAS Punch at The Mexicano
Fill mixing tin with ice, add orange juice, lime juice, agave and "Real" Black cherry syrup, and wine, shake well. Fill wine glass with fresh ice, strain contents of tin into glass leaving room for the Cava float and the 1oz shooter fireball ornament. Garnish with dehydrated orange and cinnamon stick, serve fireball shooter on side, (optional but highly recommend because of how cool it looks) add edible gold glitter into fireball ornament shooter, shake well before adding.
.5 oz Orange juice
.75 oz Lime juice
.5 oz Agave
.75 oz Black cherry puree
4 oz Red wine
Float cava
1 oz shooter fire ball ornament
Garnish: dehydrated orange & cinnamon stick
Toasted Marshmallow Espressotini at The Montauk
Shake all ingredients in a mixing tin with ice pour into Coupe glass. Garnish with a toasted marshmallow
1.5 oz Smirnoff Vanilla Vodka
.5 oz Baileys S'mores
.75 oz Cold Brew
Toasted Marshmallow
Non-Alcoholic
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Phoestivus from Iconic Cocktail
Combine all in a tall glass with ice and stir to combine.
6 oz Sparkling Water
1 oz Iconic Cranberry Thyme
.5 oz Lemon Juice
Jolly Holly from Iconic Cocktail
Combine all in a shaker with ice and shake to combine. Strain over fresh ice in a short glass and garnish with sugar-coated cranberries.
2 oz Green Tea
1 oz Iconic Cranberry Thyme
.5 oz Iconic Lime Leaf Tonic
.5 oz lime juice
Mistletoe Shrub from Iconic Cocktail
Combine all in a glass with ice and stir gently to combine. Garnish with a sprig of thyme.
2 oz Iconic Cranberry Thyme
.25 oz Apple Cider Vinegar
2 oz sparkling water
Grinchmas Mimosa Mocktail from Visit Phoenix
Pour orange juice and blue curaçao syrup in green or red sugar rimmed champagne flute. Stir to mix. Top with club soda or Sprite. Garnish with a candy cane.
3 oz Orange Juice
.5 oz Finest Call Blue Curacao Syrup
A splash of club soda or Sprite
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