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...
Lorena Saref, Drilling, Hamburg
Lorena was born in 1991 in a small Bavarian town called Eichstädt. Her first contact with bartending took place when she was fifteen years old and belonged to a group that...
10 Questions for Victor Topart
Stints at bars of 5-star hotels in Biarritz in the Basque Country, the Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland and the Lausanne Palace followed - during which he also had an 18-month stopover in a club....
10 Questions for Nicolas del Mestre
Born in Schaffhausen, he preferred to be behind the bar and so he dedicated himself entirely to his passion. In 2017, he started as deputy manager at the Cuba Club. One year later, he took over...
Marie Gerber in portrait
Growing up in the Saxon countryside in the Ore Mountains, Marie Gerber wants for nothing in Andermatt, Switzerland. She feels at home even when the small municipality is sometimes surrounded for days by the...
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