Up close & personal: Edmund Weil & Roisin Stimpson, Speakeasy Entertainment
Our fourth instalment of this series sees us talking to Edmund Weil and Roisin Stimpson of London’s Nightjar, Oriole and Swift bars. They share their deep knowledge of owning multiple sites, making running their business work for their personal lives, and knowing their priorities
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Episode 3 – ELEVATED+LOCAL with Deniseea HeadThe Grand Encounter: Behind the Bar journey now comes to its end with the final episode of the season. We now travel to New Orleans, the homeland of jazz and the city where one of the biggest global events in the bar industry takes place, Tales Of The Cocktail. It’s New Orleans that enables another Grand […]
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Episode 2 – CLASSIC+MODERN with Takuma WatanabePairs to New York, one way. The second episode of The Grand Encounter, the exclusive mini-series by Grand Marnier, takes you to the Big Apple, where host Carina Soto Velasquez meets Takuma Watanabe: a movie-enthusiast and thorough researcher, Watanabe opened up his own venue in 2022, Martiny’s in Gramercy, immediately conquering New York through spotless hospitality and […]
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Millie Tang on being a bartender-photographerWhether behind the camera or the bar, Brisbane-based Millie Tang channels her creativity to create art that stands out. She explains how her two passions collide
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Discover The Grand Encounter: Behind the BarIt’s not just about the drinks. A bar is the subtle line that slightly separates stories, made of people, experiences, memories and projects. It’s where cocktails are silent witnesses of magic unfolding, the one that occurs when ideas and backgrounds merge: encounters, the unexpected combinations that happen together with everything that comes into their creations. […]
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Episode 1 – PARIS+WORLD with Hugo TogniThe journey begins. Grand Marnier’s new mini-series The Grand Encounter premieres with its first episode, and it’s already one you cannot miss. Host Carina Velasquez is joined by Hugo Togni, bar manager and co-owner of Bar Pompette in Toronto, Canada, which he opened in 2021 and quickly established as one of the most sought-after drinking […]
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The future is yours to create: Hedda BruceHedda Bruce is the bar manager at Stockholm’s Tjoget bar in Sweden. She looks up to her team who constantly inspire her, and hopes that trash talk can be a thing of the past
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Cocktails Spirits Paris - Day 1Find out about inclusivity, professionalità and future, following the launch of Perspectives' second chapter, by Campari Academy, in Paris.
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Drink like a local: Seoul with Laki YooWe caught up with Keepers’ bar owner and long-time bar advocate, Laki Yoo, to talk about what you simply can’t miss when visiting South Korea’s capital, from somaek and local market, to traditional barbecue and much, much more
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The future is yours to create: Chun ChunWonder how you can fall in love with bartending? Read thorugh the story of the owner of the Pi bar in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City, Chun Chun
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Trois Rivieres – A unique portfolio of rum spiritsLearn about the history and production of the worldclass Trois Rivieres portfolio.
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Supply chain series: Sooji Im on how to source high-quality teaIn the first of a new series on the drinks supply chain, Sooji Im, founder of London’s ‘be-oom’ Korean tea shop and garden explains what goes into producing really ‘good’ tea Tea, one of the most loved commodities in the world that sparked wars between nations and even brought about Britain’s industrial revolution, is found […]
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How Bars Helped Shaping the LGBTQ+ movementA deep dive into LGBTQ+ history, and its link with bar culture, thanks to Professor Daniel Hurewitz