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...
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....
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