Up close & personal: Missy Flynn, Rita’s

The first of our 2024 interviewees in this series is Courtney Francis, bartender at Birmingham’s Couch Stirchley in England. She explains how boundaries, feedback and here grandmother have had an impact on her career 

The co-founder of India’s Cocktails & Dreams Speakeasy and Sidecar bars, Minakshi Singh, is a vocal leader in a market where being a woman behind the bar comes with legal and cultural implications. She explains how, against she odds, she built her businesses

Whether 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? 

As we launch ‘Unlocking creativity’, the first episode of Perspectives Season 3, we ask eight bartenders from around the world a very simple question: Is creativity important? 

The US-based bartenders who also run hospitality wellbeing project, Focus On Health, take Campari Academy's friendship test. They talk country songs, pet names and sober bachelorette parties

The city of lights is home to a heady mix of traditional and contemporary hospitality. We met bar entrepreneur Aurélie Panhelleux for a crash course in the food and drink experiences only Paris can offer. Life's too short to drink bad wine – or pastis, for that matter