Asia’s bar industry has mourned the passing of veteran bar owner Karl Too on Wednesday 18 September.

Kink Bar in Berlin has announced the launch of its latest cocktail menu, continuing its approach of offering each cocktail in both long and short form.

As London Cocktail Week returns to the capital next month so too does the Bartender Knowledge Exchange a peer-to-peer educational programme that made its festival debut in 2023.

Silverleaf at Pan Pacific London is to launch a new menu in October named Texture Is Everything.

Canadian bartender, Keegan McGregor, has won the title of World Class Global Bartender of the Year 2024.

Fords Gin, the London Dry Gin created by Simon Ford and tenth generation master distiller Charles Maxwell, has announced the opening of its new bar and brand home.

London’s famously vibrant nightlife area has become even more so with a rash of recent openings. Oli Dodd drinks in the atmosphere.

Dram was opened in November 2023 by Chris Tanner, Jack Wallis and Martyn ‘Simo’ Simpson, who had previously worked together at Soho whisky bar Milroy’s and later Silverleaf. 

The representative group for UK hospitality has criticised government plans to ban smoking from beer gardens, outside restaraunts, sports stadiums and outside hospitals.

Oslo cocktail bar, Himkok, has unveiled its new menu Beats & Sips in collaboration with Sony Music Norway, to launch 26 September. 

The Cambridge Public House in Paris saw a 30% increase in sales during the summer Olympic Games 2024.

Mexico City’s all-female cocktail bar Brujas has launched its 2024 menu in the form of a classic comic book.

London bar Oriole will open its new permanent space in The Yards, Covent Garden on 28 August.

South Korea’s capital is one of Asia’s fastest-developing bar scenes. Shay Waterworth caught up with Charles H head bartender Odd Strandbakken to find out why.

The UK’s largest pub and bar owner, Stonegate Group has announced the agreement of a refinancing package to address its £2.2 billion debt.

Alquímico, the Cartagena bar founded by Jean Trinh, was named World’s Best Bar at the 18^th annual Spirited Awards at Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans.

Shay Waterworth reports on the unprecedented success of the Hong Kong newcomer bar in topping the table of Asia’s 50 Best Bars.

Lorenzo Antinori’s ‘cocktail popolari’ concept is dialled into nailing the classics. Simplicity, accessibility and balance are the focus for its Italian menu of classic cocktails. 

Sub Astor in São Paulo has garnered a reputation for using foraged ingredients. But it’s the biodiversity from which those ingredients come that offer the real excitement, says Shay Waterworth.

Rosewood London has announced the appointment of Andy Loudon as its director of bars, returning to the UK after nearly two decades of experience within the international hospitality industry. 

In its 15^th year, London Cocktail Week has become a not-for-profit business following a successful soft launch of the initiative in 2023.

The Cambridge Public House in Paris has become the world’s first bar to achieve B Corp certification.

For 15 years Sub Astor has been a popular spot in São Paolo. Over that time the bar has welcomed some of the industry’s biggest names to conduct guest shifts and its latest menu is the sixth edition of its Biomes of Brazil concept. 

London’s Swift Borough has launched its new cocktail menu titled South of The River, showcasing 14 cocktails that explore underrated parts of South London.

The Dead Rabbit team and managing partner Jack McGarry are expanding the Irish pub out of Manhattan, New York and into Austin, Texas.