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Manager Seven Lugano / The Lounge

10 Questions for Valeria Liss

Growing up in Legnano, a town near Milan, Valeria served her first drinks at the pub around the corner at a young age.

At the age of 16, she decided to take a course at Barkeeper- which she was unable to do at first due to her age. She made up for it later and then gained professional experience in ... Read more...

25 years Bellevue Bar, Berne

Franco Federico

For 25 years, Franco Federico was the friendly face behind the Bellevue Bar, Bern. He dedicated his entire career to the bar. BAR NEWS met the old-school master a few weeks before his retirement.

April 1996, a sunny spring day. The terrace is open and so the wonderful Alpine panorama with the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau is the backdrop to Franco Federico's first day at work in the ... Read more ...

Portrait: Barkeeper of the year 2021

Victor Topart: "I didn't expect that".

"Every time I'm in Zurich, something good happens," enthuses Victor Topart about the Limmat city. And so it will happen on 15 September 2021 on the night of the SWISS BAR AWARDS this year.

In the competition for the title Barkeeper of the year, the Fribourg native beats Flurin Kopp from the award-winning Zurich Bar am Wasser and Monika Zünd from the Turbo Lama ... Read more ...

Bartender International

Evgeniy Shashin, Korobok Bar, Moscow

What fascinates me about Russian cocktail bar culture is the seemingly endless will to excel. They are hungry for new concepts and new ideas, but also very social with each other. It feels like a big family that interacts well with each other. The last time I was in Moscow, I found myself at Korobok, where I was warmly welcomed by the talented Evgeniy.

Evgeniy was born in Moscow and studied IT at university. After graduating and then working in IT at a tax office, he realised that his work did not suit him... Read more...

Bar Manager, Verre à Monique, Genève

10 Questions for Arthur Brophy

Arthur spent the first years of his life in the British university town of Cambridge before the Brophy family settled in Geneva. He spent his childhood on the banks of the Rhone until he moved back to the UK for his studies (sport and psychology).

While he was working in service and system gastronomy, he didn't think he would ever want to gain a foothold in the bar world. It was only when, back in Geneva, he found himself in the Verre à ... Read more...

Chef de Bar, Rossini, Baden

10 Questions for Michael de Silva

After realising that electricians are not for him, Michael starts an apprenticeship as a restoration specialist in Freiburg im Breisgau.

With his degree in the bag, he attended bar school in Munich in 2006, after which he moved to Gut Gelaunt in Bern for a year. Formative in both senses ... Read more ...

Bartender International

Fabio La Pietra, SubAstor Bar, São Paulo

A lot has happened in South America in recent years and many cocktail bars have opened that have also made a name for themselves internationally. Of course, if an Italian, whose brother is also active in the scene, gains a foothold in São Paulo, it can almost only be a success.

Fabio was born in 1989 in San Severo in the Puglia region of Italy. His journey into the world of bartending began when he followed in the footsteps of his older brother, ... Read more...

Licorería Limantour, Mexico City

Jose Luis Leon

Much has been said about the Licorería Limantour in Mexico City. Time and again, you will find the bar in the small family of the world's best and one of its most loyal employees, who has also had a lot to say about himself on the international mixology stage, is Jose Luis Leon.

Jose Luis was born in Mexico City in 1988. He comes from a middle to lower class family that had to get by on a minimal income. He spent his entire childhood in Nezahualcoyotl, ... Read more...

Kronenhalle Bar, Zurich

10 Questions for Anthony Kunz

The 29-year-old's life takes place between Zurich and Mainz (D) before he helps out his father in Germany for a month in his bar.

But the month was to turn into several years in which he fell in love with every aspect of bartending. Whether mixing or service - as long as Anthony, who has experience in the ... Read more...

Bartender International

Martin Holec, Delahunt, Dublin

Not long ago, I had to fly to Dublin a couple of times on business. Besides pubs, I was naturally interested in what cocktail bars the city had to offer. I had known about VCC for a while, but when I went upstairs to the Sitting Room after a visit to a restaurant in the Delahunt, it was clear which bar was number one in Dublin.

Martin was born in 1981 in a town called Nitra in the southern part of Slovakia. Shortly after his birth, his family decided to move to the smaller town of Liptovský Mikuláš, where ... Read more...

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