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Sometimes you have fun in the most unexpected places, at the most unexpected time. Three weeks ago, on a Friday night, a friend and I wanted to unwind after a particularly tough week in the office. We decided to go for a drink right after work. After hitting two very quiet spots – we started at 8 pm on a Friday after all, at a time people usually go for dinner – we decided to innovate and go somewhere we’d never been before: Café Voisins. Café Voisins Café Voisins is located on the rue des Voisins, at the corner with
Le 4e Mur, Montreal’s first speakeasy bar of the 21st century (I guess there would have been some in the early 20th century) celebrated its first anniversary last July. Its opening in 2015 was announced Hollywood style with a mysterious black and white teaser introducing the five founders’ alter egos – Dr EDD, Dirty Diana, Miroslav, le Corse (the Corsican) and Père Denis (Father Denis) – as the prime suspects in a criminal investigation led by a private detective. A second video was released in honor of the bar’s one year anniversary. Having met Dr EDD, aka Eddy, on a
A fairly recent addition to Geneva’s cocktail scene, Bistrot 23 is not only a bar but a restaurant as well. It is located 3 min walk away from the Boulevard Georges-Favon, a street packed with quite a few bars, on the off street Rue de la Coulouvrenière. In the summer, you can enjoy its two terraces, yes two, one of which gives on the Rhone river. The bar You enter Bistrot 23 through the bar. The station stands right across the entrance and looks really classy with its metallic counter top. Art deco lamps hang from the ceiling and cast
Opened on New Year’s eve 2015, The Trap is one of the latest additions to Athens’ cocktail scene. A trap ? Not at all, as quoted on the bar’s menu (an excerpt from the novel King Rat by China Miéville), a “trap is only a trap if you don’t know about it. If you know about it, it’s a challenge.” As there are no signage indicating the bar’s presence in a gallery off Syntagma square, stumbling upon it by accident is a bit difficult but, if you know where to go, it’ll be easy to find it. Once you step into
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 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
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
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
First evening in Athens first cocktail bar! I joined my sister and her boyfriend yesterday in Athens for a few days of holidays. After a nice Greek coffee down the street in the late afternoon it was nearly time to go for dinner. As none of us felt like doing late we decided on enjoying a pre-dinner drink before going to the restaurant. I came prepared with a list of cocktail bars I had researched beforehand. As I’m the only cocktail aficionado I got to choose which bar to try. After having endured Geneva’s hot and cold weather for the