The competition took place across two days and the Seoul-based bartenders beat 11-other participating bars with their ‘Earthy with Naked’ cocktail. The drink contained; Naked Malt, Sea Staghorn, beetroot, clear lemon juice, Shiraz, dill. “We would like to thank everyone who helped and supported us to achieve a good result,” said Bar Cham via Instagram. “And we would also like to thank the Korean bar…

Working in collaboration with the Sin Gusano project in Mexico, these latest mezcals hail from the San Luis Potosi, Oaxaca, Puebla and Jalisco regions, while focusing on the artisanal producers from each. Included will be a selection of ensembles, featuring traditional pechuga style, redistilled with native ingredients and two single varieties, demonstrating how differing harvest seasons influence flavour. The bottle label of the range…

The annual list of Asia’s 50 Best Bars is curated from the votes of the Asia’s 50 Best Bars Academy, an influential and anonymous, gender-balanced group of 265 industry leaders from across the region, including bartenders, bar owners, drinks writers and cocktail experts.  Emma Sleight, head of content for Asia’s 50 Best Bars, said: “Asia’s 50 Best Bars stands as one of the most…

Currently No. 41 on The World’s 50 Best Bars 2023 list, the bar has launched the new menu to take things “back to basics”, looking to elevate classics and revisit favourites, bringing back the theatre of cocktail shaking. Scarfes has revisited historical favourites such as the White Lady, originally created in 1919 in Ciro’s Club in London. Scarfes’ version, Spring Lady, is a…

India is a country on the move. It’s just become the world’s largest by population and its economy, the fifth largest globally, is growing faster than any of its rivals. It’s young too, with a median age of just 28. All that combined spells a new version of India that has been emerging – younger, internationally aware and with more money in its pocket. The…

Having founded the original CopperBay in Paris in October 2014, Aurelie Panhelleux, Elfi Fabritius and Julien Lopez have worked together with Hôtel Lancaster managing director Lydérick Jadaud and designer Studio Jean Philippe Nuel on the new project. The cocktail menu, ‘Mediterranean Cuisine’, is inspired by traditional dishes from different Mediterranean cuisines including Tiramisu (pictured bottom), which is made from Metaxa 7 with cocoa nibs, amaretto, vanilla syrup, coffee and…

Its inspiration comes from a phrase regularly heard in the city that the bar calls home: “Bombay is not a city, it’s an emotion.” Founder Yash Bhanage and his team wanted to explore the meaning of that axiom through a drinks list that honoured Mumbai. As the menu says: “For the fifth edition of Canteen Cocktails, we found ourselves spending countless hours observing, eavesdropping and…