Education at this year’s show will see renewed depth and perspective under the direction of Priyanka Blah, BCB director of education, in close collaboration with Eleni Nikoloulia, Damien Guichard and Maria Gorbatschova of the BCB education board. “This year’s programme reflects a thoughtful and well-rounded approach to the challenges and opportunities within the global bar community. I’m most excited about the diversity of…

When it comes to cocktail trends Drinks International is an authority. For almost 20 years we’ve collected data from the world’s top bars to track their bestselling classic cocktails. In 2023 this became its own supplement called the Cocktail Report, centred around a list of the 50 bestselling classic cocktails in the world’s best bars. The current top nine (Negroni, Old Fashioned, Margarita, Espresso Martini,…

Each of the eight drinks on the menu uses an ingredient produced by a farmer within Asocoman, with a percentage of each sale going towards a number of projects focused on water retention and purification. Comunidad is the cocktail menu for the ground floor of Alquímico. Each drink celebrates the farmers involved with Asocoman with an illustration of the farmer growing the key ingredient and…

I think when good people are faced with a challenge, they adapt in ways you don’t expect. We were a group of bartenders with no construction skills, but we managed to build a farm from the foundations up and live off the land.” Back in 2020 at the breakout of the pandemic, Jean Trinh, founder of cocktail bar Alquímico in Colombia’s Cartagena, presented his staff…

The new menu builds on the bar’s approach of cultural exchange, with 17 signature cocktails including Silver Lyan classics. The menu is split into four chapters, each featuring four cocktails. Culture and Media explores the knock-on effects of cultural expression, Law and Government is the intersection of human predictability with the structures of government, Conflict is inspired by the unintended consequences of human…

The menu is presented as a cocktail anthology, with 24 serves divided into four distinct eras: The Old School, Mid-Century Mixology, Modern Classics, and Nightjar Signatures.  The final section pays homage to the bar’s most popular serves from 2010 to 2025, in celebration of Nightjar Shoreditch’s 15th anniversary. Roisin Stimpson and Edmund Weil, co-founders of Nightjar, said: “This menu feels incredibly special.

A collaboration between The Pacha Group and Group Confiteria, Paradiso Ibiza is led by Giacomo Giannotti. The 14-signature cocktail menu uses Mediterranean botanicals, tropical fruits, and locally sourced ingredients, with serves including the Paradiso Mule, Tartufo Gin & Tonic, and the Amalfi Spritz.  Beyond the menu, the experience includes live cocktail performances, seasonal innovations, and guest appearances from globally renowned…