Enjoy cheap drinks and speciality menus as a winter cocktail festival takes over a Kent town.

Rochester Cocktail Week returns, offering discounted drinks at a number of venues, from Wednesday, February 1 to Sunday, February 12.

You can purchase your wristband, which will give you access to the exclusive cocktail offers, here.

Wristbands cost £10 each, with the option of purchasing a group bundle of six wristbands for the price of five.

For the drinks festival, participating venues will be choosing or creating a new cocktail that will be available to those with wristbands for the discounted price of £5.

Some venues will also be offering premium cocktails for £6.

Pubs and bars that will be offering special drinks for Rochester Cocktail Week include the George Vaults, The Mixologist, Bodega 51, Jaggers, Poco Loco, The Crown and the Nags Head.

A number of cafes and restaurants will also be participating, including Café Nucleus, Fish at 55, Brettington’s Steak and Lobster House, Oliver’s Bar and Restaurant, Padrino, Kaya Meze Bar, The Quills, SMOQE and Cheeky Clucker.

Rochester Cocktail Week began in 2021 to help the town’s independent businesses recover from the pandemic.

The new winter edition aims to give local bars, pubs and restaurants a boost in customers in February, which can be a quieter time of year for the hospitality industry.

The drinks festival is the first of four Kent events planned to go ahead this year.

There will be a Maidstone Cocktail Week taking place in May, a second Rochester Cocktail Week in August and a Canterbury Cocktail Week in November.