The Gulf Bar Show has announced its lineup of bartenders and industry leaders for its first edition on 7-8 April.

The first Sri Lankan bar to enter the World’s 50 Best list, Smoke & Bitters is focused on local and house-made ingredients. Founders Don Ranasinghe and Lahiru Perera tell Eleanor Yates about their mission.

A two-and-a-half hour drive from Sri Lanka’s capital city of Colombo, situated in a coconut grove on the Pehebiya Beach in Hiriketiya, is Smoke & Bitters. 

Jez Carreon of Employees Only Bar in Singapore has been crowned the World’s Most Sustainable Bartender by Flor de Caña, after competing with 18 mixologists from around the world.

Anna Sebastian trawls Sri Lanka’s burgeoning bar scene, sampling some of the inventive cocktails that are being created with local ingredients

London-based agaveria Hacha has announced a new bar in Bermondsey, which will see the closure of its second site in Brixton.

New York City’s Leyenda, the pan-Latin inspired bar and restaurant co-founded by Ivy Mix and Julie Reiner, has announced it will be closing its doors at the end of March.

Moe Aljaff and Juliette Larrouy have opened their new bar 'schmuck.' on 97 First Avenue at the corner of 6th Street in New York’s East Village.

Parisian neighbourhood cocktail bar, The Cambridge Public House, has launched a new online platform to empower bartenders with sustainable practices, Drinks International can exclusively reveal.

The American Bar at The Savoy has introduced its new menu, Liquid Moments, drawing on the hotel’s history.

Within Bratislava’s historic Radisson Blu Carlton Hotel is a bar that has become the epicentre of Bratislava’s newly reimagined cocktail culture.

Stanislav Harciník is helping to determine Slovakia’s presence on the global stage through bartending, a hospitality show and his own books. 

Barcelona’s Paradiso has announced its fourth annual Paradiso Sustainability Summit, set to be held in the city on Sunday 30 March 2025.

Pritesh Mody, founder of World of Zing Cocktails, the pre-batch and bottled cocktail brand, has joined Th!nk Drinks as creative director.

Soho House has extended its drinks offering across its UK and North American Houses to feature a wider selection of low abv cocktail alternatives.

Berlin is undoubtedly one of the world’s best nights out but has been slower than many of Europe’s major cities when it comes to craft cocktail culture.

Tyler Zielinkski trawls the world to discover the drinks that are worth the journey – and why.

LPM has sites all over the world, but its Dubai venue, in the heart of the city’s financial district, currently sits at No.76 in The World’s 50 Best Bars 51-100 list. 

The Tomatini looks set to achieve the status so many modern cocktails crave. Shay Waterworth meets the man determined to make it happen.

India’s first dedicated bartending platform, India Bartender Week (IBW), will launch in February next year. 

Cocktails must become multi-cultural and multi-lingual to future proof, says Danil Nevsky

Brian Owango, the Afrikan Mixologist Maker and 50 Best chair for East Africa, unveils his vision for Africa on the global stage.

The Mondhügel Bar in Berlin does things differently. Juliane Eva Reichert reports on a new pricing system that hands the control back to the customer.

Singapore’s Tippling Club will close its doors in the new year after nearly 17 years of operation.

Bartender Iain Griffiths, formerly of The Lyan Group, and Brooklyn-based bar owner Oliver Cleary have announced the launch of a new neighbourhood bar in New York’s East Village.