The Bar Awards Kuala Lumpur and Penang announces 2019’s Top 4 ahead of the ceremony this Sunday.
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2019 세계 칵테일 대회 IBA World Cocktail Championships (WCC) 에서 라트비아의 Andris Reizenberg가 세계 최고의 바텐더로 선정됐다.
This is it! The DMBA Top 4s!
Before The Bar Awards Kuala Lumpur and Penang closes the 2019 awards season, the Top 10 bars and bartenders are announced.
The Latvian bartender captivated judges with a Jiangxiaobai baijiu based cocktail at IBA World Cocktail Championships.
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패트론 퍼펙티스트(Patrón Perfectionists) 북아시아 결승전 한국인 우승자, 내년 1월 아시아 파이널을 위해 멕시코행 확정
Margarita twist, with the unique sourness of tamarind working with smoky tea-infused tequila
A blackened Negroni twist.
Complex, very dark spirits which when combined create an almost black drink.
A high contrast garnish and liquid really showcases the attraction of making pure-black drinks.
While black cocktails regularly make an appearance around Halloween, they’ve recently been slinking out of the shadows.
At the Speed Rack Asia 2019 finals, Summer Lo of Blue Bar at Four Seasons Hong Kong took home the win.
Get to know the Top 16 competing in Speed Rack Asia 2019.
The Korean bartender will be heading to Mexico for the global finals in January.
Willy Park's winning the Patrón Perfectionist cocktail.
Celebrating its third year, The Bar Awards closes the 2019 awards season recognising the best and brightest in Kuala Lumpur and Penang.
A war-winning hangover cure from Cairo by a not-so-average Joe.
A war-winning hangover cure from Cairo by a not-so-average Joe.
Dante took the number one spot, whilst Atlas ranked as the highest Asian bar on World’s 50 Best Bars list 2019.
Find out who’s on shift where this month. By Holly Graham.
The Bar Awards Singapore 2019 crowns Bannie Kang of Anti:Dote, Swissotel The Stamford as the Bartender of the Year.
Anti:dote’s head bartender takes home the top prize after a series of challenges in Glasgow.
The World’s 50 Best Bars announced bars 51-100 2019 ahead of the top 50 announcement on October 3.
The sixth edition of The Bar Awards Singapore reveals the Top 4s in for a chance to bag an award this Sunday.
16 ladies from Hong Kong, Singapore, KL, Manila, Seoul, HCMC, Guangzhou and Phuket will be competing for the title of Miss Speed Rack Asia 2019 next month.
The Patrón Perfectionists Southeast Asia final in Bali was packed with priceless experiences, fun and of course... tequila!
The DMBA bar industry awards for China and Asia will return on December 9, 2019, unfolding from 6pm in the ballroom of the five-star Jing An Shangri-La, West Shanghai.
Two cocktail legends come together to share their passion and knowledge with Hong Kong's bar industry.
The Bar Awards Singapore 2019 announces the Top 10s before revealing the winners next month.
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An Apple Martini from the Belle Epoque.
An Apple Martini from the Belle Epoque.
Jorge Conde, head bartender of Smoke & Mirrors in Singapore, shares his cocktail tribute to Pablo Piscasso.
Jorge Conde, head bartender of Smoke & Mirrors in Singapore, shares his cocktail tribute to Pablo Piscasso.
In its third and most permanent space, Port Autonomy is driving Yangon’s f&b scene forward.
From September 2 to 8, Hong Kong will be home to a whole host of rum fun.
Speed Rack returns to Asia for its second season and first time in Hong Kong.
Six Asian countries were represented across 50 spirits categories, with 13 products winning medals.
Public voting begins today and closes August 18.
Brazil’s national cocktail is likely the most popular mixed drink in the world, reckons Seamus Harris
Brazil’s national cocktail
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The Bar Awards Hong Kong and Macau reveals the best bars and bartenders in the sister SARs.
The Bar Awards Hong Kong and Macau announces its Top 4 ahead of the awards ceremony on Sunday.
Singapore's heavy hitters take home three awards between them at this year’s Spirited Awards.
Two cocktail legends unite in Hong Kong to talk pisco.
Entries to the global competition are now open to bartenders from Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, South Korea, Japan, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
For a yearly adoption fee, you can have a Malaysian-based hive to call your own and play a part in saving the bees.
Escape to paradise.
Escape to paradise.
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The Bar Awards Hong Kong announces its Top 10 ahead of the awards ceremony next month.
The Spirited Awards has announced its Top 4 Nominees, and for the second year running, Singapore is the only Asian region to make the cut.
Bangkok welcomes its first ever bar show, running from June 29-30.
The new bartending competition awards the top eight bartenders a guaranteed SGD$500 each, while the ultimate winner will pocket SGD$3,000 cash.
Shortly after announcing the Regional Top 10 Honourees, this year's Spirited Awards has now announced its Top 10 Nominees, with 12 places going to Asia-based bars and personalities.
Birds of Paradise offers an escape from city life through a lens of modern tiki – and the duo’s memorable hospitality.
This year’s Spirited Awards split into global categories, placing 36 Asian bars into the Asia Pacific category out of 60 available places.
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One of Satoshi Sugiura's winning Four Pillars Australian [Gin] Open cocktails.
One of Satoshi Sugiura's winning Four Pillars Australian [Gin] Open cocktails.
One of Rie Hidaka's winning Four Pillars Australian [Gin] Open cocktails.
One of Rie Hidaka's winning Four Pillars Australian [Gin] Open cocktails.
Shanghai’s Satoshi Sugiura and Tokyo’s Rie Hidaka share their experience after taking the top spots at Four Pillars inaugural Australian [Gin] Open, Asia.
Public voting begins today and ends June 9.
They came, they saw, they drank. All of our thoughts now that the chaos of Asia’s 50 Best Bars ceremony and Singapore Cocktail Festival 2019 has settled.
The co-founder of Bangkok’s Backstage and #FindTheLockerRoom wins Bacardi Legacy 2019 with his drink Pink Me Up.
The full list of Asia's 50 Best Bars 2019.
DRiNK’s day-by-day rundown of all* the guest shifts and masterclasses at this year’s SGCF.
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At Arch, aperitivo culture, experimentation and cocktails manifest as a curve connecting two pillars: Italy and China.
The competition determines award-worthy products and has a particular focus on spirits produced in Asia.
Legends & Cocktails takes drinkers on a tour of Asian and Portuguese legends through art and cocktails
Nominate your favourite bars and people for Tales of the Cocktail’s annual awards.
The owner of The Pontiac Hong Kong gives DRiNK the exclusive on her incoming Bali-based venue.
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An eight-ingredient tiki classic originally served at Don the Beachcomber in the 1940s.
The godfather of modern tiki’s reboot of the classic Daiquiri.
New York bartender Julie Reiner’s “modern tropical”, rye-and-rum rework of the classic Old Fashioned.
The triumphant return of tiki culture in the early 2000s from decades of obscurity owes a debt to one, lone cocktail historian.
By upcycling its guests’ unfinished drinks and bar snacks into creative new ingredients, Bar Green makes sure nothing goes to waste.
The Bar Awards Bangkok announces 2019’s winning bars and hospitality heroes.
Who, what, where and when: all the details for the #SGCFBarAcademy talks during Singapore Cocktail Festival.
The Bar Awards announces 2019’s Top 4 ahead of the ceremony this Sunday, March 31 in Thailand's capital.
The champion from Thailand shares his experiences in Milan and the inspiration behind his winning cocktails.
While tourists fight – and lose – against the Margarita, Mexicans themselves lean back with a Paloma.
While tourists fight – and lose – against the Margarita, Mexicans themselves lean back with a Paloma.
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Liquid, labels and a love for all things unique: That Boutique-y Whisky Company is a maverick independent whisky bottler.
This year’s all-female line up for #50BestTalks share their thoughts on equality in bartending and the industry, ahead of International Women’s Day.
The Bar Awards celebrates Bangkok’s bar and beverage scene for a third year, announcing 2019’s Top 10.
The InterContinental’s newest hotel bar strives to take the focus away from bartenders, giving guests the escapism that drinking once used to.
A sustainability friendly cocktail is based on the sugarloaf pineapple, designed to showcase some of the flavours and techniques found in Mexican cuisine.
Find out who’s on shift where for International Women’s Day 2019.
Hong Kong’s newest whisky den is ticking the boxes that other whisky bars aren’t.
At their second venue, the team has zeroed in on European tradition – but not without some local touches.
A salty and sweet coffee cocktail with sustainability in mind.
Prepare your livers, the biggest cocktail festival in Asia returns.