Top Bristol Classes & Workshops

Successfully smuggle your liquor past the Warden and serve your time with a covert supply of personalised cocktails. This is the bar behind bars, where the serving inmates are your bartenders, the guards are crooked and you become a part of the story. Welcome to Alcotraz Penitentiary, the first prison-themed speakeasy to come to Bristol!

Interactive Workshop: A hands-on, sensory experience led by a professional fragrance stylist. Expert Guidance: Learn the "Fragrance Pyramid" and how to balance base, heart, and top notes. Personalised Souvenir: Take home a 5ml bottle of a scent that exists nowhere else in the world. Extensive Scent Library: Experiment with a curated collection of premium accords, from fresh florals to deep musks. Perfect for All: An ideal activity for solo travellers, couples, or groups looking for a unique indoor experience.

Learn to draw with the help of a professional tutor and a nude model by signing up for this activity, designed with hen and stag parties in mind. You'll sit down in a private venue with a full bar service and get to drawing, learning techniques and tips from your instructor.

Cocktail lovers—this one’s for you. Enjoy the luxury of a private cocktail-making lesson with just your group and a mixologist in Bristol. Instead of letting someone else make the cocktails for you, this experience offers the rare opportunity to get behind the bar and find out the secrets of creating delicious cocktails yourself. To make sure you avoid crowds, the class also gives you exclusive use of the venue.

Our cocktail classes are interactive and super fun. Our fun loving cocktail experts will show you how to make a selection of classic cocktails. You and your group will get hands on to make and shake your own creations. Every group has exclusive use of the venue for maximum privacy and you get to drink everything you make! Perfect for stag dos, birthdays and work parties.

Fun and social painting experiences. Sip and Paint is a perfect creative activity for anyone to enjoy. From birthdays to hen parties to single travellers and small groups of friends. Enjoy a sip and paint experience led by an experienced local artist. Everyone will be able to enjoy a fun painting experience and have a canvas to take away with them.

The Espresso Martini was invented by British bar tender Dick Bradsell in London. Legend has it that a ‘top model’ asked for a drink that would ‘wake me up and f**k me up’ at the same time. Bradsell complied mixing vodka with espresso and coffee liqueur and the Espresso Martini was born. This hugely popular cocktail is now considered one of the classics and the the perfect post dinner cocktail. This 2 hour class is perfect for groups looking for a little pick me up after dinner or before hitting the town. Obviously if you are coffee lover this cocktail class is perfect for you but make sure everyone in your group also enjoys coffee! This classic cocktail is simple to make and its all about the crema to get that frothy foam on the top. Our experienced mixologists will show you have to make the perfect Espresso Martini’s. You don’t have to be Kate Moss to enjoy an Espresso Martini and this class work for both hens and stags.