Winner: Vladimir Reichert, Bar Lupo, Zurich
The winner, Wladimir Reichert, convinced the jury with his drink "Alexandra" and prevailed against eleven other bar professionals. Thus, he not only won the challenge cup, Humbel's Stork Trophy, but...
Swiss Beer Day
Every year, on the last Friday in April, Switzerland celebrates its beer. It may not be an official holiday, but it is a day to celebrate. The Swiss brewing industry has...
3rd SWISS COCKTAIL OPEN – Get your ticket now!
On Monday, May 8, the grand final of the 3rd SWISS COCKTAIL OPEN will take place in Hall 550 in Zurich-Oerlikon. We are happy to host the final again this year....
Craft Spirits Berlin Awards 2023
The Craft Spirits Berlin Awards is an international competition for the best craft spirits. This year, distilleries from 27 countries faced an international...
Basel celebrates Japanese flavors at the Konomi Festival
The Konomi Festival in Basel combines the Japanese way of life with that of Switzerland. From March 27 to 30, Basel is all about Japanese taste. Konomi means taste in Japanese. This...
The Best of Scottish-Swiss Friendship
Peter Haecky, Claudio Bernasconi and Fred Laing personally selected the three liquids of a unique collection, which matured in the entire 100 years. On May 20, as part of Whisky Day at the...
Successful Martell Swift Bar Tour with Remy Savage
The Martell Swift Bar Tour started in Zurich at Bar am Wasser. On board was Remy Savage, Martell's new Master Mixologist and Taweechai Frick, the...
Nights Conference in Zurich
With the aim of jointly developing possible development paths for the nocturnal city of tomorrow, independent of thematic and structural boundaries. To make this as lovable and livable as possible, as well as low-conflict and...
10 years of Campari Negroni Week
The Negroni is a bitter and initially challenging aperitif that signals the change from work to pleasure, stimulates the appetite and awakens a passion for change. Since its invention in...
Negroni Week from September 12 to 18, 2022
65 Swiss bars will also be celebrating Negroni Week in 65 bars in Switzerland. Negroni Week will take place from September 12 to 18, 2022. Tuchlaube, Aarau Waldmeier,...
Visiting Cointreau
It is an icon of global bar culture: the legendary Cointreau bottle with its even more legendary contents. A spirit brand whose notoriety is due in no small part to the fact that it can be found at several...
Win a trip to France with Cointreau!
You have proven your mixology skills often enough in many competitions. For this reason, we want you to prove your knowledge of Cointreau in this competition. The 10 participants with...
18. Best of Swiss Gastro
The BOSG jury of experts nominated a total of 102 innovative Swiss restaurants with a convincing concept. Over a period of two months, these restaurants, bars, cafés and take-aways were put to the test...
Fynn Thielen, The Dolder Grand, wins "gusto22"
On 1 April, the culinary industry met for the first major industry event without restrictions in a long time. Around 400 guests accepted the invitation from Transgourmet/Prodega to the Casino Bern. As part of "gusto22"...
Review of cocktail and bartending course
The course participants learned the basic rules to be observed in a bar at the Felix Bar in Zurich. In the theoretical part, Kaspar Keller gave the heterogeneous group in-depth...
The best Swiss spirits of 2021/2022 honored
Seven distilleries were honoured as "Distiller of the Year 2021" at the award ceremony on 27 October 2021 at the Hotel Montana in Lucerne. 113 products were awarded gold and 323 silver...
Igeho 2021 will not take place
The major relaxation measures announced by the Federal Council on 23 June came too late for the hospitality industry, which wanted to present itself widely at Messe Basel in November. "We would have liked to have...
Call for entries for fine spirits competition launched
The national spirits award DistiSuisse has been on the road to success for years. This is proven by the increased number of participants in the past. At the last event, more than 100 companies submitted a total of 622 samples of...
Spring course at the BAR NEWS Academy
Anyone who wants to learn the craft of bartending needs more than a recipe book and two or three YouTube tutorials. Because only those who stand behind the bar themselves and prepare the spirits, liqueurs, syrups...
Dalila Zambelli wins gusto21
Dalila Zambelli from Waffenplatz Isone could hardly believe her luck when Sven Epiney announced her name as the winner of "gusto21". The Ticinese convinced with an appetiser consisting of pike-perch balls with...
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