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The World’s 50 Best Bars 2021 Are Revealed

The 2021 edition of the World’s Best 50 Bars was announced this week at an awards ceremony in London, UK.

London holds the top two spots while New York has two spots in the top 30.

It’s also a notably more international affair than usual, with 17 countries represented in the top 50, and with 18 new entries spread across Australia, India, Mexico, Russia, Argentina, Sweden, Spain, China and the UAE.

London’s Connaught Bar took the No.1 spot as well as was awarded The Best Bar in Europe title for the second consecutive year.

Under the leadership of Agostino Perrone, Connaught Bar presents artful, modern drinks with graceful service in an elegant setting. Designed by the late David Collins, the Cubist-inspired bar is known for its unique Martini trolley, where bartenders give a highly personalized drinks experience to guests.

Other bars in the top five are London destination Tayēr + Elementary (No.2), rising star Paradiso in Barcelona (No.3), Athens favorite The Clumsies (No.4) and the acclaimed Florería Atlántico in Buenos Aires (No.5). The full list can be viewed list https://bit.ly/W50BB2021

Cocktail lovers add these drinking destinations to your 2022 bucket list!

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Liz Palmer: Interview with Frankie Solarik the visionary behind BarChef

My recent interview with Frankie Solarik, a cutting-edge mixologist, leader on the global cocktail scene and owner of BarChef.  BarChef is located on Queen Street West, in the City of Toronto.

Frankie Solarik really needs no introduction, but for some newbies in the trade, Frankie is well-known in Canada and around the world as a pioneer of a progressive and contemporary approach to cocktails, he’s a mixologist not afraid to use frozen carbon dioxide blowtorches, and other tools when creating his cocktails.

Here is the link to my interview:  https://www.instagram.com/tv/CV54JvxKdgR/?utm_medium=copy_link

or can be found at @lizpalmer_  (Instagram)

Questions asked:

    Who is Frankie Solarik ?

    What the philosophy behind BarChef?

    How many Mixologists do you currently have on staff ?

    Can you tell us what cocktails are currently popular at BarChef ?

    You wrote and published the book (The Bar Chef a Modern Approach To Cocktails) – tell us the background of why you wrote this book and is there a followup edition?

    Let’s talk about bottled cocktails, the popularity of which is keep growing, how did you come to the idea of making your own bottled cocktails?

    And what are the key features that make BarChef bottled cocktails special?

    Can you tell us how you came up with Late Harvest Vesper and Toasted Old Fashioned?

    We heard about a new release from BarChef: Fall 2021 Collection. Tell us about seasonal bottled cocktails. And where can you purchase them?

“I can personally say that being “in person” at BarChef with Frankie Solarik and tasting the Late Harvest Vesper and Toasted Old Fashioned, was definitely worth the experience!”

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Manachain Monaghan wins the “Flor de Caña Sustainable Cocktail” Challenge

Manachain Monaghan from the UK has been crowned the global champion of Flor de Caña’s Sustainable Cocktail Challenge with his ‘Steamship’ cocktail!

Monaghan, owner of Below Stairs Bar, beat 30 other international bartenders and mixologists in a virtual edition of the competition which challenged entrants to make the most ‘spectacular’ sustainable cocktail.

About The Steamship Cocktail
Steamship is a zero-water waste cocktail made with home-made cacao and lime bitters, coffee liqueur made from re-used Nicaraguan coffee beans and Fair-Trade certified sugar, saline solution and Flor de Caña 12, served over ice on a coaster made from dehydrated pear.

“I wanted to create a beautiful cocktail that captured the essence of Nicaragua and proved that sustainability can be embraced behind the bar to improve the flavour and experience of our cocktails,” said Monaghan.

As the Global Champion of Flor de Caña’s Sustainable Cocktail Challenge, Monaghan was awarded US $10,000 and his cocktail creation will be promoted globally by the brand.

About the Competition
The judges were: Salvatore Calabrese, Julio Cabrera, Hannah Sharman-Cox and Siobhan Payne. Each drink was evaluated based on four criteria: sustainability, flavour and appearance, creativity and inspiration.

Carlos Sierra from Colombia and Joe Ngui Wee Kwong from Malaysia earned the second and third spots in the competition, winning a prize of US $5,000 and US $2,500 respectively.

Flor de Caña
In addition to being the world’s only Carbon Neutral and Fair-Trade certified spirit, its rum is distilled using 100% renewable energy and all CO2 emissions during fermentation are captured and recycled.

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Dennis Doorakkers + Liz Palmer on IG Live discussing the RTD Market

Based in Holland Dennis Doorakkers is wine writer, a judge at various wine competitions in Europe and North America, an importer, and also an Ambassador for the International Canned Wine Competition [ICWC]. Dennis is a true believer in the viability and potential of canned wines in the marketplace.

He is also driven by millennial-minded-marketing and this is due to the fact that he is also a millennial and likes the new developments in the ‘traditional’ wine and adult beverage industry.

Dennis joined us yesterday on IGLive to discuss the RTD Market.  Liz Palmer asked Dennis a number of questions on the history or RTDs, trends, how it is evolving, top producing countries and other details.

We would like to say thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday, it was a very interesting and informative session. Special “Thank You” to Dennis Doorakkers @vi0vita for giving us a broader understanding of a huge market of Ready-to-Drink beverages. If you missed it, please feel free to watch it on @lizpalmer_ account.⠀

Also, we would like to say thank you to BarChef Project @barchef and Georgian Bay Spirit Co @georgianbayspiritco for providing us with their amazing RTDs which we are going to try on our next session.

We will be live on both Facebook and Instagram. During the next session together with Dennis Doorakkers, we are going to taste canned wines, canned/bottled cocktails, and hard seltzers, discuss and compare availabilities in different parts of the world and much more!

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The World’s 50 Best Bars returns LIVE December 2021!

William Reed Business Media has just announced that The World’s 50 Best Bars, sponsored by Perrier, will be unveiled as part of a live awards ceremony on Tuesday, 7 December 2021, at London’s Roundhouse.

Returning to an in-person event after a virtual event in 2020, The World’s 50 Best Bars 2021 will recognize and celebrate the resilience and achievements of the sector in the last year and a half.

The 2021 ranking will be unveiled in a ceremony that will form part of a two-day event program, and the list will be based on members of The World’s 50 Best Bars Academy’s bar experiences across a voting period between March 2020 to September 2021.

In 2020, 50 Best made several changes to its Academy, which now includes more than 540 anonymous industry experts and is 50/50 gender balanced. There are 23 Academy Chairs across 23 geographic regions, and the voting process and results are independently adjudicated by Deloitte to ensure authenticity. The 2021 voting requirements have been amended to reflect the travel restrictions imposed by the pandemic.

Mark Sansom, content editor for The World’s 50 Best Bars, says: “We are thrilled that The World’s 50 Best Bars ceremony is returning to London this year for an in-person event, allowing the bar community to reunite once again after being starved of vital international face-to-face interaction. Championing great bars is more important than ever before and we hope this event and list inspires people around the world to return to their beloved bars, discover new favorites and seek out fresh adventures.”

There will also be three special award announcements in the weeks running up to the ceremony:

  • 18th November – Michter’s Art of Hospitality. This award is voted for by all members of The World’s 50 Best Bars Academy, who are asked to name the bar where they received the single best hospitality experience during the voting period;
  • 25th November – Altos Bartenders’ Bartender. This award is voted for by the bartenders behind those bars on this year’s list, who are asked to name one peer who has done more to further the craft of bartending than any other, with reference to their work throughout the pandemic; and
  • 2nd December – The extended 51-100 list. Five days before the virtual awards ceremony, 50 Best will reveal those bars ranked between 51st and 100th in the world on its website and social media channels.

A new award has also been announced for 2021: the Siete Misterios Best Cocktail Menu, which is designed to reward innovation, design, drinks craft and idea communication. The award is open to all bars across the globe and will involve the submission of a current menu and supporting materials. Details on how to enter will be announced on The World’s 50 Best Bars website and social channels in the coming weeks.

For further details:  https://www.worlds50bestbars.com/

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