This year, Gin Festival Saigon 2023 presents a head-spinning 13 gin brands. And each gin will be turned into a cocktail by a specially selected bartender. Adding to the interactivity, and some friendly competition, will be a public vote for the best drink and the best gin.
Luan Khanh, director of F&B software company SpeedPOS, is reinventing rượu gạo. At his Phu Nhuan wine shop, he ages the rice spirit in American and French barrels, and the surprisingly refined product is appearing in cocktails in some of Saigon’s best restaurants.
World’s 50 Best Bars 2023 came to Asia, for the first time, with an event at Singapore’s Pasir Panjang Power Station, that saw #1 spot passed 4km across Barcelona from Paradiso to Sips.
The regional craft beer conference, Brew Asia, now in its 8th year, has arrived in Saigon. And, following the two-day event, Rehab Station will host Brew Fest 2023 featuring their favorite Vietnam-based craft beer brands.
GoodTime Burgers Hanoi took their time opening a first restaurant. So, here, Duc, Tommy and Long tell us about the hard times and the good times during their first three years.
With only a few days to go till London Cocktail Week 2023, we spoke to the event’s co-founders and best friends, Hannah Sharman-Cox and Siobhan Payne, about the boundless energy they’ve brought to the event over the past 14 years, and their soon-to-launch Pinnacle Guide.
CoCo Grill is a new concept within the CoCo Saigon culinary complex. This is where chef Vo Thanh Vuong skillfully uses fire in the menu The Flame of Hestia to create an incredibly attractive dining experience.
Chef Thierry Renou, from Le Patio in the town of Arcachon in the south-west of France, embraces the abundance of incredible local ingredients and adds some Asian accents that he picked up on his travels.
“We were like ‘Wow!’ we’re a bar at the bottom of the world and we’re getting all these accolades.” Charly Aguinsky, co-founder of Tres Monos in Buenos Aires, Argentina, tells us about their neighborhood bar that’s won World’s 50 Best Bars’ Michter’s Art of Hospitality Award 2023.
At Sam Aisbett’s Akuna Restaurant, the chef celebrated for his modern Australian cuisine, who cooked with culinary legends Tetsuya Wakuda and Peter Gilmore, is cooking without boundaries using local ingredients while showcasing a few from his Australian homeland too. “Look at me. I am modern oz!” says the chef who’s calmer and more content than ever before.