While it’s now hard to imagine any city around the world, big or small, without a scene of cocktail bars mixing inventive and often excellent drinks, that wasn’t always the case. Cocktail culture as we know it today blossomed thanks to a small number of boundary-pushing bars and the bartenders nurtured inside of them, setting trends that rippled for years to come.
The following ten cocktail bars around the world, most of them still open, have had an outsize influence on how we drink today. Some of these establishments made the list because their bartenders invented cocktails we now find everywhere (think: the Oaxaca Old Fashioned, frozen daiquiris and Negroni Sbagliato); others because they housed talent that would go on to open award-winning projects around the world. A few spots may not have always been on the cutting edge of drink invention, but played integral roles in establishing their cities’ cocktail scenes (in mixology capitals like Milan, New Orleans and Paris), in turn influencing the entire industry.
Check out these ten influential cocktail bars around the world that impacted drinks history forever.
Image Courtesy of Death and Co. Death and Co
New York, USA
It’s impossible to talk about the “craft cocktail revival” without a nod towards Death & Co, the dimly lit East Village bar that opened on New Year’s Eve 2006 and changed the drinks world forever. Thanks to a rotating door of visionary mixologists, who were given the creative freedom to invent cocktails that you
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