The Negroni Challenge is Campari Academy’s competition to find the best negroni in Spain. This year, the seventh edition, came with a rule: the drink had to be based on a television series. Oleksii picked The Bear. The cocktail is called Yes, Chef! What is in it Mezcal fat washed with gorgonzola, vermouth infused with
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Nobody pitched us. We liked the gin, we liked the brand, and we wanted to work with it. Condesa is a Mexican gin, and it has two expressions we wanted to use separately: the classic one, and the prickly pear and orange blossom one. We built three cocktails with them. Three routes, one starting point
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We’ve been building up to this one. Friday 16 October, two bartenders from Sips are working our bar for one night. If you follow cocktails at all, you already know: Sips is No.3 on The World’s 50 Best Bars and No.3 on the first Europe’s 50 Best Bars list. It was crowned the world’s best
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Some guest shifts require flights. This one required a walk of about forty metres. On 10 December we welcomed Apotheke — Valencia’s original speakeasy, our neighbours at Ciscar 18, and the bar that shows up on basically every “best cocktail bars in Valencia” list ever written. Recognised by Top Cocktail Bars in 2025 and Top
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Every series starts somewhere. Ours started a few streets away. For our first ever guest shift, we didn’t book a flight — we invited Cooktl, the cocktail bar from Begoña Rodrigo’s La Salita, Valencia’s Michelin-starred, three-Repsol-Suns restaurant. Some of the most interesting cocktail thinking in the city happens there, and on 26 October it happened
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Most bars never touch The World’s 50 Best list. Drink Kong has been on it in five different years — No. 45 in 2020, No. 19 in 2021, No. 21 in 2023, No. 33 in 2024, No. 40 in 2025. Rome’s most internationally recognised bar, and one of the most stubbornly consistent names in world
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