Up close & personal: Sly Augustin, Trailer Happiness
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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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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7 ways Hwi Yun thinks about flavourFrom how producers select final products, to engaging in external factors, and encompassing all of a guest’s senses, Bar Cham manager Hwi Yun has a holistic approach when it comes to understanding flavour
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Athens Bar ShowWith sun shining bright over Technopolis, a former gas factory now one of the city’s most vibrant cultural venues, the tenth edition of Athens Bar Show marked the end of the “bar show season”: ABS continued to increase the number of visitors (12.000 this year) and proved once again to be one of Europe’s largest […]
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The 4 types of creativity explainedWhether conscious or impromptu, creativity can be achieved by using different strategies and for different purposes. We do a deep dive into the main types of creativity – which one do you fit into?
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Seasonality, terroir and globality: How time and place can impact flavourWhen it comes to looking beyond the back bar, working seasonally is an undertaking that is becoming more pertinent among the bartending community. Millie Milliken asks bartenders from Australia, Japan and Peru how time and place impact how they work
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Drink like a local: Singapore with Jess ‘Hutch’ HutchinsonVibrant, eclectic and full of contrasts: Singapore is unique blend of high-end cocktail bars and high-energy dive bars. Our guide Jess Hutchinson shows us both
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Eli Martinez Bello: fighting for Mexican cultureHospitality excellence and deep links to her roots: this is Eli Martinez Bello's world, seen through her own eyes.