The 7 Habits of the

World’s Best Bars

Or, How to Steal your Way to Success

Housekeeping

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Jim Meehan

• Managing Partner,

PDT

• Author and Educator

• Designer and Thinker

• @mixography

• Favourite bar: Nomad

Benjamin Padron Novoa• 15 years in business, but

always a passion for bars

• Partner of Limantaur and Baltra

• Top 50 World’s Best Bars

• Favourite bar: Artesian

• @benja_benja

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Ian McLaren

• Director of Training,

Bacardi USA

• 20 year career industry as

a trainer, educator and

traveler

• Piña Colada aficionado

• Favourite bar: Bramble

• @thebartrainer

Jacob Briars

• Advocacy and Training Director of Bacardi

• Matterhorn - 16th Best Bar in the World

• Lover of blue drinks, Fernet and vodka

• @vodkaprofessor

• Favourite bar: PDT

Forever Young

• 45 mls (1 ½ oz) Grey

Goose

• 15 ml (1/2 oz) Martini Dry

• 15 mls (1/2 oz) Eucalyptus

Syrup

• Opium Essence

What is a ‘Great’ Bar?

• A place of refuge

• A ‘halfway house’

• A living room

• An experience

Drinks International Top 50

Bars

Tales Spirited Awards1. Artesian

2. Dead Rabbit

3. Nightjar

4. Attaboy

5. Employees Only

6. Canon

7. The Baxter Inn

8. The American Bar

9. High Five

10.28 Hong Kong St

11.Connaught Bar

12.Happiness Forgets

1. PDT

2. Licorerira Limantaur

1. Have a Vision

• Have a clear idea

about your bar’s goals

• From Conception to

Execution…

• Let it Evolve

Coherent Theme

2. Operate with Integrity

• ‘Enlightened

Hospitality’

• Quality before quantity

• Make this the ‘golden

thread’

3. Have a ‘Point of View’

• Understand what you

are, and what you’re

not

• Do something first

• Do something better

than your peers

• Don’t do too much

Perfect Pearing

• 45 mls (1 ½ oz) Grey

Goose La Poire

• 15 ml (1/2 oz) St Germain

• 7.5mls (1/4 oz)

Benedictine

• 22.5 ml (3/4 oz) lemon

juice

• Dash of Angostura bitters

4. Have Great Staff• Train ‘complete’

bartenders - problem

solvers

• Make them comfortable

with all facets of your

bar

• Invest in and protect

them

• Give them a sense of

Ownership

(& Have a Great

Owner)

• Great bars have

committed ownership

• They share the

limelight, and

encourage the staff to

grow and evolve

Inspire Your Peers

5. Offer an

Experience

Have Quality as Your

Goal

• Use the freshest

ingredients

• Use the best products

• Offer each drink in a

way that exceeds

expectations

• Make it memorable

Morena Cocktail

• 50 mls (1 2/3 oz) Bacardi Ocho

Años

• 30 mls (1 oz) Jamaica syrup

• 30 mls (1 oz ) lime juice

• 8 basil leaves

• Garnish with a guava foam and

cardamom pod

6. Spoil the Guest

Look after Regulars

7. Constant Reinvention

• If you won’t cannibalise

yourself, someone else

will

• Build a collaborative

creative process and

work at it…

The Golden Rule

• Treat others as you

would like to be treated

• Take your craft

seriously, don’t take

yourself seriously...

Thank You!