10 Questions for Victor Topart

This was followed by stints at bars in 5-star hotels in Biarritz in the Basque Country, at Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland and at the Lausanne Palace - during which he also had an 18-month stopover at a club. During his time at Le Comptoir, Lausanne, he was simultaneously on the road for Diageo as a Bar Academy trainer.

As such, he also met the brothers Stéphane and Jean Christophe Jaton, with whom he would later open the Crapule Club in Fribourg.

The 10 questions

1. Who would you like to serve a drink to?
I would like to serve the French actor Alexandre Astier a nice single malt.

2. The first thing you do when you start working?
Prepare myself mentally for the day. Make sure I haven't forgotten anything, that we have enough fresh produce, etc.

3. What do you love about your job?
The joy of the guests. It can be because of little things, like a gin and tonic where you recommended the gin to the guest or when a guest tries a new cocktail for the first time.

4. What gets on your nerves the most?
Disrespect. For example, when guests steal glasses or other material or behave badly towards the staff.

5. A world without social media would be...
... better.

6. What was your craziest trip?
Lausanne-Sevilla by motorbike in 2019. I decided spontaneously while drinking a Tanqueray Sevilla with tonic. I then thought, I want to drink a G&T like that in Seville. But it took me a long time to find a bar there with exactly this gin....

7. the most unusual cocktail you've ever mixed.
A variation of a Rob Roy. It consisted of Château d'Yquem, Scotch whisky and Sémillon grapes coated in gold leaf. The sommelier of the hotel was close to tears....

8. the last luxury you treated yourself to.
A Hamilton wristwatch.

9. three qualities to describe you.
Passionate, energetic, hard-working

10. the last 100 francs and only 24 hours left...
Only a hundred francs? (laughs)