Barmagazine - Thinking about drinking

03/06/2026

🗽 Women & Hospitality crosses the Atlantic for the first time. Margarita Sáder and Julie Reiner co-host the ninth edition of the global seminar series at Milady's New York on June 8, 2026, with Faye Chen (Double Chicken Please), Susan Fedroff (Milady's, Clover Club) and Patty Dennison (Kinda Nice, Shenanigans) on the panel. Paradiso takes over the bar the following night.

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Women & Hospitality hosts its first North America seminar at Milady's New York on June 8, 2026, with Margarita Sader, Julie Reiner, and Faye Chen. More

03/06/2026

Bratislava's Mirror Bar has been named winner of the inaugural Michter's Art of Hospitality Award at Europe's 50 Best Bars 2026, the first special prize ahead of the full list reveal in Amsterdam on June 30. Inside the Radisson Blu Carlton, Peter Marcina, Stanislav Harciník and team have built a science-fiction-tinged room that the 50 Best Academy keeps coming back to. Read the full story →

Bratislava's Mirror Bar wins the Michter's Art of Hospitality Award 2026 at the inaugural Europe's 50 Best Bars, revealed in Amsterdam on June 30. More

03/06/2026

🏆 Bratislava's Mirror Bar has been named winner of the inaugural Michter's Art of Hospitality Award at Europe's 50 Best Bars 2026, the first special prize ahead of the full list reveal in Amsterdam on June 30. Inside the Radisson Blu Carlton, Peter Marcina, Stanislav Harciník and team have built a science-fiction-tinged room that the 50 Best Academy keeps coming back to. Read the full story →

Bratislava's Mirror Bar wins the Michter's Art of Hospitality Award 2026 at the inaugural Europe's 50 Best Bars, revealed in Amsterdam on June 30. More

26/05/2026

🇧🇷 In São Paulo's Vila Madalena, Solara Bar has become the only independent venue outside North America certified by Bumble as a verified safe space for dates. Owner Bruno Acioli and Livre de Assédio's Ana Addobbati built an operational safety culture the industry hasn't learned how to replicate yet, from door-registration protocols to a team trained to read body language before a word is spoken.

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Solara Bar in São Paulo is the only venue outside North America certified by Bumble as a verified safe-date space, with protocols built on real training. More

25/05/2026

Top 10 Bars in Singapore 2026. BarMagazine’s editorial pick. 🇸🇬
Singapore put eleven bars on Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2025, more than any other city this cycle. Jigger & Pony sits at No. 3 in Asia, No. 9 in the world. Our 10 spans the city’s full cocktail range, from Native’s Indigenous Southeast Asian program to Atlas’s eight-meter Gin Tower and Manhattan’s on-site hotel rickhouse.
Which Singapore bars would make YOUR Top 10? Tag them below ↓
Read the full list at the link in bio.

21/05/2026

🍸 Belgrade Cocktail Fest is the leading cocktail festival in Serbia - and for its 2026 edition, it's going bigger than ever.

Founded by Vladimir Simić in 2024, the fest returns June 6 with bars from Madrid, Oslo, Rome, Athens, and Copenhagen converging on the Serbian capital for guest shifts, lectures, and master classes that are putting Belgrade firmly on the Balkans cocktail map.

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Founded by Vladimir Simić in 2025, Belgrade Cocktail Fest returns June 6 as Serbia's top cocktail festival with guests from six countries across the Balkans…

20/05/2026

Your “best” cocktail is making you the least money.
There are two ways to price a cocktail. Most bars only ever learn one. The “worse” pour cost drink can throw off $5.95 more profit per pour than the textbook winner.
Swipe for the math.
Full pricing piece on BarMagazine.com. Link in bio.

19/05/2026

The Aperol Spritz monopoly is over. 🍊
Seaweed gin in Paris. Pisco and yuzu in Abu Dhabi. A Negroni cut with seltz in Florence. The world’s best bars are rewriting the spritz this summer.
Five worth flying for.

17/05/2026

Top 10 Bars in London 2026. BarMagazine’s editorial pick. 🇬🇧
London put four bars in the World’s 50 Best Bars 2025 top fifty: Tayēr + Elementary at No. 5, Connaught Bar at No. 6, Satan’s Whiskers at No. 21, Scarfes Bar at No. 31. Our 10 reaches further, from Mayfair hotel classicism to a Bauhaus-themed cocktail bar in Hoxton and Mr Lyan’s sustainability program on the South Bank.
Which London bars would make YOUR Top 10? Tag them below ↓
Read the full list at the link in bio.

15/05/2026

🇺🇸 Philadelphia bartender Alexis Ortega has been crowned the 2026 U.S. Bartender of the Year at the World Class National Finals in Chicago. After three days of grueling challenges across 15 of the country's best, Ortega clinched the title with two standout cocktails and a performance judges said balanced precision, creativity, and real hospitality. He now heads to Scotland this fall for the World Class Global Finals. Read the full story →

Alexis Ortega of Philadelphia wins the 2026 World Class U.S. Bartender of the Year title in Chicago, earning a spot at the Global Finals in Scotland. More