The Brief

Back for another year, Manchester's North Pole Bar at Cathedral Gardens is a pop-up bar boasting über-kitsch faux fur throws, Swiss chalet rugs and warm winter cocktails. A good example of unpretentious,......

Housed inside Singapore's Marina Square shopping mall, The Tastings Room is a wine bar and bistro with a strong focus on affordability; not that you’d gauge that from Tokyo/Singapore based......

Having accommodated the likes of Pearl Jam, the Chili Peppers, Keanu Reeves and Little Richard; San Francisco's Phoenix Hotel knows a thing or two about rock and roll, and with some......

Copenhagen's Mikkeller Bar – from cutting-edge Danish microbrewery, Mikkeller – is a truly unique drinking establishment; thanks to designers Femmes Regionales' faultless fusion of modernism and traditional Danish pubs.

Breathtaking views of Manhattan - at 6 Columbus’ new rooftop terrace lounge - are accompanied by bespoke “warm weather elixirs” and select wines, sakes and spirits, all courtesy of the acclaimed Blue......

Le Bar 228 at the grand Le Meurice hotel in Paris is often topping the city’s “Best bar” lists. The reason may be the 50-plus whiskeys on the list,......

Famed Scottish brewery BrewDog have recently begun opening a chain of bars creating a special outlet for their unique blend of craft beer. The first two are located in Aberdeen and Edinburgh, and are......

Kramer Gastronomie selected the young Swiss designer duo, James Dyer-Smith and Gian Frey, to create a 1920’s old world Fumoir inside The ‘Blue Monkey restaurant in Niederdorf, Zurich, which merges the......

Bowling alleys are right up there with curling rinks on the list of the most unlikely milieus for anything chic. Yet, at The Spare Room, on the mezzanine level of the Hollywood Roosevelt......

A tiny cocktail lounge, Yucca, has opened on the third floor of Mansion 26F in Sinan Mansions, Shanghai. Yucca’s crazy, modern Mexican feel conjures up thoughts of Salvador Dali, Diego Rivera and......