Julia Momose, Kumiko Bar, Chicago
Julia was born and raised in Japan. She came into contact with the hospitality industry in her youth and worked part-time in a bagel shop and a restaurant that...
10 Questions for Andrea Linzner
At the age of 18, the Allgäu-born and trained hotel manager crossed the German-Austrian border and later gained professional experience in Portugal, Switzerland and Norway, among other places. Finally, she was drawn to...
Whisky legend Claudio Bernasconi
Ruedi Zotter: How did you get into the whisky world? Claudio Bernasconi: I was a hotelier all my life and already at the age of 20 I became general manager in a business with 40 employees....
Armin Azadpour, Hunky Dory, Frankfurt
Armin was born in Germany, but his parents are from Iran. It took him a while to discover his second passion after fashion: bartending. After his...
10 Questions for Ted Haupt
After school, Ted starts an apprenticeship twice - and drops out twice. The repetitive nature of a 9-to-5 job doesn't really suit Ted's go-getting nature. When he finds a job on the internet...
10 Questions for Marko Tordinac
In 2013, he attended the Bartender School in Split and shortly afterwards mixed his first cocktails behind the bars of various bars in Croatia. In 2016, he ventured into the...
Ivy Mix, Leyenda, New York
Ivy was born in 1985 and grew up in Vermont. She studied at Bennington College and has a bachelor's degree in philosophy and fine arts. She was nineteen years old when...
Gilad Livnat, Imperial Craft Cocktail Bar, Tel Aviv
Gilad was born and raised in Tel Aviv. His destiny to become a restaurateur was decided in his childhood. He grew up with his father and grandfather running the...
10 Questions for Valeria Liss
At the age of 16, she decided to take a course at Barkeeper- which she was not able to do for the time being due to her age. She made up for it later and then gained professional experience at home and abroad.
Franco Federico
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...
Victor Topart: "I didn't expect that".
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...
Evgeniy Shashin, Korobok Bar, Moscow
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....
10 Questions for Arthur Brophy
While working in service and system catering, he doesn't think that he would ever want to gain a foothold in the bar world. It wasn't until he returned to Geneva and worked at the Verre à...
10 Questions for Michael de Silva
With his degree in the bag, he attended the bar school in Munich in 2006, after which he moved to Gut Gelaunt in Bern for a year. Formative in both senses...
Fabio La Pietra, SubAstor Bar, São Paulo
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 his older brother's footsteps....
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,...
10 Questions for Anthony Kunz
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...
Martin Holec, Delahunt, 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...
10 Questions for Nadine Brunner
Stations at the Landhüsli and the Absinthe Bar followed before she was brought on board Solothurn's newest cocktail bar by André "Haui" Haueter a year ago. Despite the...
Monika Zünd
Mid-August, Monika Zünd is sitting at a small table on the terrace of the bar that has just opened. The sun is reflecting off the modern new buildings, the trains are running at regular intervals on the...
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