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After reading rave reviews about The Gin Joint in Charleston, South Carolina online, I was eager to visit it during my vacation in the USA. This bar is a true craft cocktail haven. I absolutely loved it and highly recommend it! After enjoying a nice dinner in one of the many restaurants in Charleston’s historic district, stroll along East Bay Street until you reach a small but lovely fenced courtyard. Walk no more: you’ve arrived at The Gin Joint! I visited The Gin Joint twice. On my first visit I sat at the bar which allowed me to talk with Chris,
The Southern states of the USA are famous for their cuisine and many companies offer culinary tours in cities like New Orleans or Savannah for tourists to discover the specialty dishes in their most famous restaurants. The Charleston Culinary Tours in Charleston, South Carolina, has taken the extra step of organizing visits to some of the city’s best bars. Naturally I signed up for one of their mixology tours when I visited two weeks ago! When I mentioned on registration that I was a cocktail blogger they generously comped my ticket. This is however an unbiased review. The programme The
Chris McMillian is a living legend for bartenders visiting New Orleans. Following some kind of family tradition with his parents, grandparents and great-grand-parents all working in one trade or another of the spirits and hospitality industry, he’s been bartending for…well… let’s say forever. He’s also one of the founders of The Museum of the American Cocktail. After working in several of New Orleans’ best bars, he’s opened his very first own venue with his wife in February of this year: Revel. This is where my new friends from Tales of the Cocktail and I were headed for the first stop of our bar crawl
The cocktails at Cure are simply mind blowing or should I say palate blowing? I visited Cure on a Friday, by the end of Tales of the Cocktail week in New Orleans. If your Uber driver knows where to go and doesn’t get caught in traffic, it will take you about ten minutes to drive there from the French quarter. Cure is pretty trendy but the atmosphere was rather laid back with groups of friends, from their mid twenties to their late forties, enjoying dinner or drinks together. There were quite a few Tales of the Cocktail participants, easily recognizable
Rum, ron or rhum? Whichever variety of sugar cane distillate has your fancy you’ll find a wide selection at Little Barrel, a bar specialized in rum in Geneva. Back in October last year, Nicolas Berger and Quentin Beurgaud, two of Geneva’s most talented bartenders, combined their talent to open a new bar in partnership with the directors of Le Chat Noir, where Nicolas used to be Bar Director. Along with some friends they entirely renovated an old neighbourhood bar in the Eaux-Vives district transforming it into a cozy hangout place, great for a date night or a chill night out with
Le Chat Noir is like a second home to me. It’s where my passion for bartending and the cocktail world started. So forgive me for raving about it but you’ll know the following words come from the heart! A household name since 1985, Le Chat Noir, aka as the Black Cat, in Carouge, Geneva, has everything you need for a great night out: a bar and restaurant on the ground floor, an other bar and a concert hall turning into a club after midnight on the lower ground floor. In the summer, a large terrace opens on the street as
MoMix is a group originally from Athens with three bars and a lab focusing on molecular mixology (hence its name). Its promise is “Here you can travel your mind tasting cocktails & drinks in solid form and many other alternative ways…”As I had never had a molecular cocktail in my life, I was very curious to taste one. I was thus happy, mid-May, to discover MoMix had recently opened their third bar in Santorini where I had flown in for the weekend! So, one evening, after dinner, I took the direction of the group’s newest location for my first experience with molecular
The second stop of my second night out in Athens a few weeks ago was the famous Baba au rum! I really wanted to visit that bar 1) because it has a great reputation, 2) because I’m a rum girl, 3) because, after enjoying the rum menu at Little Barrel in Geneva, I was curious to see what another rum bar could put on its menu. I was not disappointed! In fact I enjoyed my first visit so much that I made a point of returning on my last night in Athens and ended visiting Baba au Rum twice, on
A little over a year after opening, The Clumsies bar, in Athens, is making headlines all over the bartending world. Most recently it entered the World’s 50 Best Bars ranking at the 22nd position. Quite an achievement for a brand new bar but maybe not so surprising! There is serious level behind The Clumsies’s stations after all. Its two founders, Nikos Bakoulis and Vasilis Kyritsis, were both Diageo World Class Greece winners; Nikos in 2012, Vasilis in 2013. They both regularly travel all around the world for talks and guest bartending shifts, sometimes taking some of their bartenders with them. With
On my second night in Athens, after dinner near Syntagma Square, I decided to explore some of the bars nearby. Many of Athens cocktail bars are located close by in the streets surrounding Kolokotroni Street. On my way to those I had searched before my trip I found several more. One of them became my first stop of the night: Bartesera. If I wasn’t walking the leisurely stroll of the tourist and if it wasn’t for the music coming out of the bar I would have easily missed it. Bartesera is located in a gallery coming out on Kolokotroni Street.