When the email landed confirming Super Lyan’s place on the inaugural Europe’s 50 Best Bars list, at No.42, Ryan Chetiyawardana read it first. John Papastylianos, Super Lyan’s bar manager and part of the leadership team, was told next. “As with all World’s 50 Best announcements, the information was highly confidential,” he says. “We took that […]
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Line sits inside a former art gallery in Kato Petralona, all soaring ceilings and industrial bones, and until 30 June it was best known internationally as the bar that landed at No.8 on The World’s 50 Best Bars 2025. Then Europe got its own list. Line took No.1. For a bar that was already on […]
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On 30 June 2026, the bar industry gathered at De Kromhouthal in Amsterdam for something that had never happened before: the unveiling of Europe’s 50 Best Bars, the first dedicated European ranking from the organisation behind The World’s 50 Best Bars. Asia and North America had already received their own regional lists in previous years. […]
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There is a certain kind of place that does not try to fit into a category. Not because it cannot, but because it was never built that way to begin with. CUE is exactly that kind of place. Spread across two floors on the Utrechtsestraat, it brings together a Michelin-starred restaurant upstairs and a vinyl-driven […]
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Amsterdam’s Flying Dutchmen Cocktails has reached a new milestone — and marked it in the best possible way: with a full bar. On March 4, the three co-owners welcomed family, former staff, friends and long-time supporters back into the Singel bar to celebrate its reopening and a new chapter for the venue. The timing could […]
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East London’s 🔶🟥🔵—known colloquially as “A Bar with Shapes for a Name”—isn’t your average cocktail bar. It’s a love letter to both art and hospitality, shaped by a team whose approach to quality and collaboration is as structured as it is expressive. The concept draws heavily on the Bauhaus movement, not only in visual identity […]
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Pulitzer’s Bar heeft deze zomer een menu gelanceerd dat mixologie en parfumerie met elkaar laat samensmelten. De bar werkte daarvoor samen met het New Yorkse parfummerk D.S. & Durga: geuren worden vertaald naar cocktails, met een opbouw die denkt in top-, hart- en basisnoten in plaats van enkel in zoet, zuur of bitter. Het resultaat […]
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2023 kan met een gerust hart de boeken in als het jaar waarin de cocktail heel Nederland in haar greep kreeg. In januari vorig jaar riep ik al de Cocktail Revolutie uit, en dat bleek gelukkig ook echt zo te zijn. De Poma en de Esma waren onverminderd populair, maar andere cocktails verdringen zich om […]
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Het creëren van een nieuw cocktailrecept gaat soms snel, soms langzaam. Weet je wat, eigenlijk duurt het gewoon best lang voordat een goede cocktail helemaal is uitgewerkt tot recept. Zo ook bij de Green Light, een cocktail die nu op het menu staat bij Fitz’s Bar, Amsterdam. Toen ik deze proefde wist ik dat dit […]
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