Recipe Sake Cocktail Kanzake Lichi by Vanessa Rabadon We’ve tapped another batch of bartenders – a couple of veterans and a lot of fresh faces – to bring us some holiday spirit. We’ll start with one of the veterans in the industry, Vanessa Rabadon, bar manager of The After Five in Marikina. She took her inspiration from Japan for her fruity, aromatic, and slightly umami Christmas cocktail, … Read More
Recipe Raise Your Glass To 2021 With These 10 Cocktails It’s a brand new year! This is the time for new beginnings and fresh starts. 2020 was challenging, to put it mildly. So we look forward to what 2021 has in store for us, and welcome it with a renewed sense of hope. We’ve asked some of our friends in the industry for cocktail recipes to celebrate the new year. … Read More
Behind The Bar Brand News Giffard’s Spirit of Art Features Manila’s Tattooed Bartenders and Baristas Since time immemorial, we have been using our bodies as living canvasses to express personal beliefs. Filipinos, for one, have a deep historical and cultural connection to tattoos. Pre-colonial Philippine tribes in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao adorned their bodies with tattoos to signify a rite of passage, status, beauty, or as marks of bravery in battle. The first documentation of … Read More
Recipe Vodka Cocktail Candy Rush Cocktail Recipe by Vanessa Rabadon Recipe by Vanessa Rabadon, head bartender at Kampai, located at the second floor of Tambai, 5779 Felipe, Makati City “The cocktail is inspired by my childhood days, when I used to hang socks on the door of my room during Christmas believing that Santa Claus would come and visit me while I was sleeping. Every Christmas morning I’d wake up … Read More