Up Close & Personal: Sly Augustin
In the first of our new series, we talk to Sly Augustin, owner of London’s Trailer Happiness, about the ins and outs of running a bar business, how he deals with failure and setbacks, and what he wish he’d known before becoming a bar owner
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The future is yours to create: Dennis ThurnerDennis Thurner is a Thailand-based bartender whose journey has taken him from hotel service to some of the country’s most formative cocktail spaces. Shaped by mentors, travel, and a steady curiosity for culture and flavor, his approach to hospitality is grounded in learning, generosity, and incremental growth. Today, as the Campari Red Hands APAC 2025 […]
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Scent Is Service: How Smell Shapes the Bar ExperienceThe Five Senses of the Bar explores the bar experience through sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing. In this chapter, the focus is on smell, often the first and most immediate sense guests engage with. Long before a menu is opened or a drink is poured, scent shapes expectation the moment a door opens, quietly […]
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From BPM to Belonging: How Music Shapes the Bar ExperienceThe Five Senses of the Bar explores the bar experience through sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing. In this chapter, the focus is on sound, often the first sense guests engage with. Long before taste or aroma, music sets the tone the moment a door opens, signaling what kind of space it is, how to […]
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Announcing the Campari Red Hands APAC Regional Finalists 2025Asia-Pacific’s leading bartenders take the next step toward Milan. The journey begins here. Following a series of national and regional finals across Asia-Pacific, Campari Red Hands proudly presents the APAC Regional Finalists 2025, a group of bartenders whose creativity, discipline, and personal stories stood out across the region. Guided by the Negroni Family Tree and […]
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The future is yours to create: Wahyu AdityaWahyu Aditya is the Campari Red Hands APAC 2025 finalist for Indonesia, a Bar Captain at Numero Quattro by Project Black Hospitality in Bali whose journey into bartending is deeply rooted in family legacy. Raised within the culture of the bar through his father and siblings, he approaches his craft with a strong sense of […]
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The future is yours to create: Josiah CheeJosiah is the Campari Red Hands APAC 2025 finalist for Singapore, whose journey into hospitality began behind a café counter before evolving into the energy of the night scene. Drawn to the culture and creative freedom of the bar world, he approaches his craft with intention, reflection, and a strong sense of community. A little […]
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What it takes to scale a successful business with Hawksmoor’s Will BeckettThe CEO of Hawksmoor discusses his strategy for scaling a hospitality business, his specific set of leadership skills and why being optimistic is his superpower When I speak to Will Beckett over Zoom on a rather uneventful day in April, the man I’m met with is – by his own admission – a casual one. […]
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The usual suspects: 5 people you should know if you want to open a barA bar is only as good as the team running it, but it’s equally important to set your business up for success. Monica Berg highlights some of the key players who’ve helped her over the years, and whom she’d be lost without 1. The lawyer Depending on where in the world you are, there are different […]
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Up close & personal: Juan Yi Jun, No Sleep ClubFor the final instalment in our series, we spoke to Juan Yi Jun, owner and co-founder of No Sleep Club. Jun talks about the compromises that are necessary as you scale up your business, the experience of managing staff throughout the Covid-19 crisis, and developing her own skills as a leader since then, in order […]
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Up Close & Personal: Guoyi Gan and Indra Kantono, Jigger & Pony GroupThe second instalment of our new video series sees us talking to Guoyi Gan and Indra Kantono, co-founders of Jigger & Pony Group. They share their past management mishaps, why they don’t like rules, and always remembering that a bar is a business
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Jean Trinh talks human sustainability, community and being fearlessDuring the pandemic, Jean Trinh turned the role of a bar leader on its head. The founder of Alquímico explains why caring for a community drives everything he does in his business – and how it taught him not to fear anything Don’t get me wrong, I love Paris, where I’m from. But the thing […]
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The Future is Yours to Create: Emilio ValenciaThe second interviewee in our new series asking bartenders how they can shape the future of the industry is Emilio Valencia, group beverage development manager for Soho Luxury Restaurants in Dubai. He tells us the most helpful career advice he’s been given, what a good role model means to him and the one thing he […]