Vikram Achanta

World’s No.1 Bar, Handshake, Mexico City, is doing guest shifts at Slink &amp; Bardot, Mumbai, and The Johri, Jaipur, this week. We spoke to the founders about their rise to the top and their take on the Indian bar scene

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How Mexico City’s Handshake Speakeasy Became the World’s Top Bar

With four bars in the Top 50, including Sidecar, The Bombay Canteen, Copitas and The Living Room by Masque, and a record nine in the Top 100 make it a memorable year for India at the Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2023 listing released in Hong Kong yesterday

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Big Year for Indian Bars 

In an industry woefully short of women, the winner of the 2023 Diageo World Class, the Oscar of bartending competitions could provide a much-needed inspiration

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Aashi Bhatnagar Is the Country’s Best Bartender

Breakfast, they say, is the most important meal of the day. We like it more if it&#8217;s served in a cocktail glass

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Bar Tesouro’s Cult Cocktail ‘Midnight Brekkie’ Is A Winner

Dive into Navjot Singh&#8217;s journey in becoming the best bartender in India

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What It Takes To Be India’s Best Bartender 

In the late 1990s when Jeff Bezos was expanding his fledgeling online book-selling site called Amazon into household products, Sukhinder and Rajbir Singh had the idea of doing something similar with their family business of selling alcohol. They were the sons of first-generation immigrants who ran a liquor shop in Hanwell, a town in West [&hellip;]

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How The Whisky Exchange Became the World’s Largest Online Alcohol Retailer

Only two Indian brands feature in the Drinks International magazine’s annual survey of the alcohol brands that patrons of the Top 100 bars across the world consumed and talked about in 2020. While Amrut featured in the list of Top 10 bestselling World Whiskies, Amrut and Paul John made it to the Top 10 Trending [&hellip;]

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The Paul John Single Malt Story

Gin might be the trendy flavour among alcohol entrepreneurs these days, but one woman is betting on rum. Kasturi Banerjee worked in financial services for 14 years, and her journey from banker to bartender started in 2019. A fascination with bartending and drinks led her to throw herself headlong into the field by embarking upon [&hellip;]

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Maka Zai, The New Indian Rum And The Woman Behind It

You don’t have to depend on duty-free purchases anymore. Beam Suntory has made its famous brands — Yamazaki and Hibiki — available in India, including the recently launched—and very affordable—Toki. The origin story of Japanese whisky has been oft-told, but it does bear a retelling, as it makes our friends in Scotland happy. Masataka Taketsuru, [&hellip;]

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Everything You Need To Know About Japanese Whiskies In India

Anupam Dikhit and Vikram Achanta

Here’s why, as a whisky drinker, you should broaden your horizons and delve into the world of bourbon and rye