1、FEATURINGFEATURING001 cover final 50BB DIGBE2025.indd 1001 cover final 50BB DIGBE2025.indd 118/09/2025 19:0818/09/2025 19:08drinksint Drinks International Global Bar Edition 2025 3 EDITORIALGlobal Bar Edition Editor Hamish SProduction Editor Jaq BADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTERS:Priyanka Blah,Sam Bygrave,Nic

2、holas Coldicott,Oli Dodd,Ben Mintz,Franois Monti,Sorrel Moseley-Williams,Achraf El Moufadal,Danil Nevsky,Eleni Nikoloulia,Charlene Rooke,Rebecca Sturt,Shay WaterworthDESIGNArt Director Christine Freemanchristine.freemanagilemedia.co.ukArt Editor James Downjames.downagilemedia.co.ukADVERTISINGCommerc

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4、est Sussex,RH15 9LHT:+44(0)1293 COVER: IvankinDESPITE LOCAL CHALLENGES,there is much to celebrate.The bar industry has never been so globally strewn and evenly developed.Superstar talent now lights up scenes in all corners of the world,creating a multi-polar landscape in which opportunity for the ba

5、rtending profession abounds.The knowledge of our craft,the standards of drinks and the expectations of hospitality have never been higher in history.And so,in this special bar-focused edition of Drinks International,we lower the spotlight not on the traditional mega-markets but those bar scenes that

6、 are making moves.Priyanka Blah tells us about how the formerly sleeping bar giant that was India is awakening and we look at the vast landscape of Canada,where Charlene Rooke fills us in on an underrated though geographically disconnected bar scene.Meanwhile Achraf El Moufadal exposes our preconcep