Up close & personal: Missy Flynn, Rita’s

The third interviewee of our video series is Missy Flynn, co-owner of Rita’s in London’s Soho. She lays bare the business’s early problems, the implications it has had on who she trusts, and the reality of running your own restaurant

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Episode 3 – ELEVATED+LOCAL with Deniseea Head

The 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 Watanabe

Pairs 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-photographer

Whether 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 Bar

It’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 Togni

The 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 Bruce

Hedda 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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Cognac, The French Spirit Par Excellence

Cognac is more than a spirit – coming from a refined process of distillation and blending of eaux-de-vie, it’s considered one of the best of its kind. Find out all about this French mixology staple.

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Jim Meehan: When it comes to bar design, we all have the power to work with it

Bartender and esteemed author Jim Meehan shares his ideas about how design can impact a succesful bar.

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Extracting flavour: Marcis Dzelzainis on how to use an alembic still

For the sixth installment of our extracting flavour series, bartender and co-founder of Idyll Drinks Marcis Dzelzainis talks alembic stills, from its origins to creating hydrosols and hydrolats – and how it compares to the rotovap If you’ve visited distilleries, the most common type of still you’re likely to have come across is the alembic […]