Winemaker Isabel Mitarakis landed in Saigon on another leg of her intense Asian tour, to present Viña Concha y Toro’s remarkable range of luxury wines, grouped together as Jewels of the New World.
This year, the Gin and Whisky Festivals have folded in, to create one big boozy blow-out, Vietnam Whisky & Cocktail Festival 2024. We checked in with four participating bartenders on what to expect.
Tokyo Confidential’s Holly Graham and The Pickwicks Chronicles Gabriel Gliga got the gang back together for her first ever guest shifts in Vietnam, first at Layla – Eatery & Bar before heading north to Hanoi.
Narrative-evoking craft whisky is beloved, even by bartenders, so we gathered five of the region’s best to talk about the spirit in time for International Whisky Day on 27th March.
Enigma Mansion, for their first guest shift, welcomed PK Maltroom’s Nguyen Minh Khanh with an armful of fine spirits, for a one-night-only guest shift, called Cho Ems (For You), in support of the ‘Nuôi Em’ project.
Le Du and Nusara’s Chef Ton joined Chef Quang Dung in the Chapter Dining & Grill, Hanoi, kitchen for a special event that explored the surprising commonalities between Thai and Vietnamese cuisine.
Craft distillers are seen as the small guys in a spirits industry dominated by big names like DIAGEO, Beam Suntory and Pernod Ricard. But, since founding the Festival Village at Singapore Cocktail Festival, FoodNews have had an eye for the small guys, and that continues with their SoCraft Awards.