With COVID-19 keeping many of us inside and looking for new hobbies to help fight the boredom, now is the perfect time to take up bartending at home. Learn more about the basic tools you will need to start building your repertoire of tasty drinks.
Everything You Need to Know About Premixed Cocktails
When people found themselves unable to go to bars due to COVID-19, a wide range of brands responded to the trend of drinking at home with excellent premixed cocktails.
CompanyToast & Café La Trova Create Virtual Cantinero Experience
CompanyToast, the virtual happy hour program launched by Overproof to create job opportunities for bartenders while offering remote-work companies a way to boost team morale, is partnering with Café La Trova – the Miami bar and restaurant that embraces cantinero cocktail culture using time-honored traditions – to create a one-of-a-kind virtual experience. Thanks to support from Santa Teresa 1796 rum, Bacardi and Shaker & Spoon, all sales will go to bartender relief efforts.
Ex-Made in Chelsea star Spencer Matthews wins US$2 million investment for low ABV ‘spirit’
Former Made in Chelsea star Spencer Matthews, the founder of low ABV spirit brand The Clean Liquor Co, has raised US$2 million from Lightspeed Venture Partners. Clean Liquor was selected
Top drinks marketing campaigns and news in January
Diageo launches Seedlip’s first ad campaign Drinks giant Diageo has led the fight to keep sales buoyant during January by launching its first advertising campaigns in the UK and US
Amuse-bouches: The latest restaurant news bites
We round up the week’s restaurant-related news, from the opening of wine bar and restaurant Peckham Cellars to Pied à Terre’s launch of the ‘£100 Club’. Openings Peckham Cellars: A
Top 10 food and drink trends for 2020
Zero waste restaurants Last year saw the rise of the closed-loop cocktail, with bartenders like Duck & Waffle’s Rich Woods and Dandelyan’s Ryan Chetiyawardana making use of ingredients most chefs
12 London restaurant openings to watch in 2020
Oklava Bakery + Wine Selin Kiazim and Laura Christie are turning their Turkish Cypriot restaurant Kyseri in Fitzrovia into a bakery by day and wine bar by night, which is
Top 10 drinks trends in the US on-trade for 2020
The low to no alcohol trend will expand In the coming year, expect to see an increase in ‘spirits’ with no alcohol in the US, with a greater variation in
The biggest drinks acquisitions of 2019
As 2019 draws to a close, we round up a year of acquisitions which has seen two prominent British brewers snapped up by foreign investors, Constellation Brands agree a wine
