Pawel Rodaszynski, El Koktel, Warsaw
After several years of wandering around Poland (Piła, Bydgoszcz, Łódź, Wrocław) as well as stays in Spain and Belgium, I finally moved to Warsaw to become more serious as a cocktail maker.Barkeeper to work and to work my...
10 questions for Lukas Zingerle
I'm originally from South Tyrol, Italy, where I graduated from the Bruneck regional hotel management school at the age of 19 and went straight into the bar business. I have worked my way through various...
10 questions for Toàn Phan Thanh
Born in Nyon, in the canton of Vaud, Toàn Phan Thanh trained as a watchmaker at Rolex. He got the idea to become Barkeeper from a friend who was training to become a...
Dustin Le, Bā Nomu, Hamburg
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Filip Stránský, AnonymouS Bar, Prague
I was born on May 8, 1990 in Prague. After graduating from school I got a scholarship because I played semi-professional football. Since my father was a building contractor, he wanted me to...
10 questions for Julien Chouquet
Julien Chouquet was very attracted to the world of nightlife, cocktails and partying. He wanted to learn how to make cocktails and was lucky enough to join Bacardi Martini,...
Knud Scheibelt, Schwarz Weiss Bar, Stuttgart
It was in 2001: "Have fun, you are now our Barkeeper!" I tried to do the job as good as I could, but of course I didn't use jiggers or pourers,...
Hubert Pavao Peter, Brother, Vienna
I am 35 years old and was born in Schwarzenberg in the Bregenzerwald in Austria. I grew up on a farm, surrounded by lots of crafts, manual labor and nature. After school...
10 Questions for Justin Andrew Ebert
Born in Heilbronn (DE), Justin Andrew Ebert spent his early years in the Bernese Oberland. At the age of five, he moved back to Germany, where he completed his school career. To become...
Boris Gröner, One Trick Pony, Freiburg
Originally I come from a place called Rosswag, near Stuttgart, and I am 44 years old now. I have two children, and together with Andreas Schöler I own...
Lennart Deddens, Stockroom, Groningen
After working my way up as a kitchen help and then a waiter, I finally became Barkeeper. Then it was time to move to the "big city" - Groningen - which...
10 questions for Laraina Bösch
Later she realized that she was missing something. So she announced out into the void, heard from a colleague of the bar course on Kos and participated there for four weeks. After that...
Bligg and the firs
Hardly any other artist has shaped and influenced domestic creativity and the Swiss music market in the last 15 years as much as the Zurich dialect artist. His record is remarkable: several No. 1 albums...
Marc Bonneton - L'Antiquaire Lyon
Since I grew up in a bakery, heavy physical labor was practically in my cradle. My parents opened the business a year after I was born, so I was...
10 questions for Stelios Kalemis
In the years that follow he rides the 3rd coffee wave. After his military service, he starts working at The Clumsies in Athens, which opened in 2014. At the top address - the bar...
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...
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