Guest Shifts

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

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

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

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