Within the past two months an administrator has been appointed to review the bar’s financial situation and the strike action is to begin immediately in support of Prangé. In a statement provided by the Little Red Door team to Drinks International, the objectives of the strike action are to obtain “regular, collective and transparent information to employees on the future of the company and their…

Research conducted by Malibu identified that 73% people don’t know what to do in a spiking situation, while 65% of 18–25-year-olds have noticed an increase in spiking since the pandemic and 70% of victims felt vulnerable on nights out. Malibu has donated £20,000 to Stamp Out Spiking to offer free online spiking awareness training to its customers and partners. The training takes 25 minutes and…

Chris Tanner, Jack Wallis and Martyn ‘Simo’ Simpson, who have also opened Milroy’s of Spitafields among other venues, and the latest bar will open on 1 November. “We’ve done Silverleaf, we’ve done heritage whisky bars, we’ve done cool underground bars and everything’s been quite separated,” Simpson told Class Bar Magazine. “We want a space with multiple uses but all under one brand.” The 120-seater space…

The figures highlight the changes in hospitality and the sustained periods of pressure the industry has been under, recently heightened by inflation, rising energy bills and workforce challenges.  Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UKHospitality, said: “Given the shocking number of hospitality business closures exposed by these new figures, the last thing the sector needs is the potential £1 billion bill as a result…

To read the official guide to The World’s 50 Best Bars, read the Drinks International Global Bar Edition.  Opened two years ago, bringing modernist, technique-driven cocktails to Barcelona, Sips is owned by Ex-El Bulli man Marc Alvarez and Simone Caporale, who is now the only bartender to have won The World’s 50 Best Bars five times, following wins at Artesian from 2012-2015. It…

Available here to read, this annual, bar-focused magazine unpicks the global trends that underpin the list. The GBE editor, Hamish Smith introduces this year’s magazine. In this 13th edition of Drinks International – dedicated to the global bar industry – we’ve tried to identify  embryonic trends. ‘Farmtending’ is one such recent movement and as Nicholas Coldicott writes, bar farms have sprung up…

Named Schmuck, the new venue is unconnected, financially or otherwise, to the Barcelona-based trio of Schmuck venues – Two Schmucks, Fat Schmuck and Lucky Schmuck. Aljaff, who left the Barcelona in autumn 2022 for the US, told Drinks International that Schmuck will open in Manhattan’s East Village in Q2 or Q3 next year. Aljaff and Larrouy’s former colleagues Eliane Naeger and Floriane Groux are also…