Industry stalwarts and co-founders of India Bartender Show, Yangdup Lama and Minakshi Singh, alongside tech entrepreneur and founder of Red Rhino Brewing Co, Kishore Pallamreddy, will open a new bar in Hyderabad this July.

Giorgio Bargiani, the assistant director of mixology at the Connaught Bar in London, has been named the first winner of the Altos Bartenders’ Bartender Award for Europe’s 50 Best Bars.

Avra Bar at Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel Athens has introduced an immersive new menu, Drinks International can exclusively reveal.

Martinis continue to gather momentum globally, so much so they're now demanding their own bars. Eleanor Yates dives in…

In September last year Bar Leone, one month before it topped The World’s 50 Best Bars list, announced a second site in Shanghai. Almost a year later Drinks International visited the second venue to meet founder Lorenzo Antinori.

Taste The Orient is a new London-wide drinks festival celebrating Asian bar culture, flavour and hospitality taking place from 22-28 June 2026. The event will bring together 45 of London’s leading Asian bars and restaurants for a week-long programme of exclusive signature serves, short menus, tasting flights and food pairings, created only for the festival. Sharman-Cox and Payne said: “Taste The Orient…

Bratislava’s Mirror Bar has been awarded the Michter’s Art of Hospitality Award ahead of the inaugural edition of Europe’s 50 Best Bars.