Recently we launched a new scheme to honour the world’s best whisky bars. As this exciting scheme has grown form strength to strength Whisky Magazine has been inundated with more suggestions.
Here are the latest recipients of these prestigious awards – congratulations to all of them.
Allen’s, Toronto, Canada
Ballygrant Inn & Restaurant,
Isle of Islay, Scotland
Bar & Cigar, Oslo, Norway
Brasserie del Camaleonte, Paratico, Italy
Brooks Hotel, Dublin, Ireland
Buchanan’s, Calgary, Canada
En...
By Rob Allanson
from Issue 60 published on 10/11/2006
Fidel’s in Melbourne is giving Australia’s finest city a taste of true luxury – but don’t tell anybody. Naren Young reports
The Macallan 1946 at $210 a pop. Mmm, nice. The Glenfarclas 40 year old at $352 a nip. Things are getting serious. The Glenfiddich 50 year for $495. Wow! The Glenffidich 1937 – yet to be priced, but while still waiting for further offers, is estimated at between $20,000 and $30,000AUD for the bottle...
By Naren Young
from Issue 54 published on 03/03/2006
We recently asked for nominations for our ‘great whisky bars of the world’ award. On the opposite page is the list of the first recipients. Here Damian Riley Smith reports on one of the best
Cape Town lives up to every visitor’s preconception; it is magnificent, stunning, exciting. And while you can experience all these sensual experiences at different points and times throughout the city, they are perhaps all best brought together at Bascule, the whisky bar in the Cape Grace hotel.
It...
By Damian Riley-Smith
from Issue 53 published on 12/01/2006
A couple of issues ago we launched a new scheme to honour the world’s best whisky bars. Here are the first recipients – congratulations to them all
Albannach, London, England
Altona, Bergen, Norway
Atheneum Hotel, London, England
Auld Alliance, Paris, France Talbott Tavern
Bascule Bar, Cape Grace Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa
Bishops Arms, Helsingborg, Sweden
Blue Label, Shizuoka, Japan
Boisdale, London, England
Bourbon Bistro, Louisville, Ken...
By Dominic Roskrow
from Issue 53 published on 12/01/2006
Germany’s capital city holds much to tempt the whisky-lover, as the Berlin-based Jefferson Chase explains
It ain’t paradise, but it is a great playground. With roughly 3.5 million inhabitants, at 882 square kilometres, Berlin has been at the centre of world events for 200 years. Aformer garrison town of the Hohenzollern dynasty in Prussia, the city literally burst its boundaries in the 19th century to b...
By Jefferson Chase
from Issue 28 published on 16/1/2003
John Lamond describes the miracles worked by Lennie Maguire proprietor of the St Andrew's Bar
The St Andrew's Bar is a real bar. It is what we Scots refer to as a "local", servicing the needs of the drinkers within the local community. Architecturally, it is very similar to many such hostelries throughout Scotland. What makes the St. Andrews Bar stand out from its peers is its publican, Lenn...
By John Lamond
from Issue 25 published on 16/8/2002
Bourbon is the focus for London's hottest new style bar, The Rockwell in the Trafalgar Hotel. John Roberts brings you the lowdown on the English capital's hippest new hangout
London’s never-ending hustle is a million miles away from the image of rural Kentucky, the laid-back home of bourbon, but southern sippin’ whiskey is making a big noise in the city’s fashionable centre.
In the beating heart of Trafalgar Square, the Trafalgar is very much a ‘theme’ hotel – the theme...
By John Roberts
from Issue 21 published on 16/2/2002
David Stirk is 'entertained in a truly Scottish manner' during his five-day whistle stop tour of Speyside allowing him to bring you the definitive guide to Speyside's best bars
The Mash Tun
The sun is shining far too brightly today, its rays force their way through the curtains and hit the floor with a bump that’s only audible to people who have heavily overindulged the night before. People like me, for example.
It’s 9.30am and my body aches as I lay prostrate in my bed....
By David Stirk
from Issue 15 published on 16/4/2001
Ken Hoskins travels to eastern Europe and puts his feet up in the Be Bop Bar with his new Czech mate.
Who would consider Prague a whisky drinking destination? The only distilled spirit the Czechs are known for is Karlovarska Becherovka, a bitter herbal concoction best left to little old ladies and to youngsters who like it with 7-Up.
Yet, tucked away in the lobby of the historic Radisson SAS Hotel ...
By Ken Hoskins
from Issue 12 published on 16/11/2000
There's plenty of places to hang out in Canada's biggest city, but its whisky bars offer something a bit special. Kathleen Sloan and Ted Mcintosh make merry among the malts.
Contrary to what the rest of the world may think, Canadians do not, exclusively, think rye when they drink whisky. In Toronto, Canada’s largest city, the home of many fine bars and a multi-national population, the Anglo-Celtic roots still run deep. Before the 1960s, when huge numbers of people from ...
By Kathleen Sloan
from Issue 10 published on 16/6/2000
Retro luxury pervades the whisky bars of San Francisco as Larry Walker found out when he did a little relaxing West Coast style
Finding a good whisky bar in San Francisco is not as easy as one might think. The silicon valley and hip-media types in their 20s and 30s, when they aren’t ordering $150 (£100) bottles of Cabernet, are lapping up tequilas and designer vodkas, and even making inroads into the gin supply. Their palate...
By Larry Walker
from Issue 8 published on 16/2/2000
The Big Apple has some star whisky bars as tried and tasted by Dave Broom
Not surprisingly, rock singer Jim Morrison’s refrain: "Show me the way to the next whisky bar" kept raging in my head as I tramped the streets of New York searching for that very thing. Actually, it's a ridiculously
easy task.
Trying to find the best whisky bars in Kabul would be a test, but New Y...
By Dave Broom
from Issue 6 published on 16/10/1999
India's luxury train the Palace on Wheels, has a bar that's open all day, every day, and whiskies that bill themselves as 'Horsepower for real men.' Kevin Pilley had a ticket to ride.
Arthur sucked on his pipe. We both watched the smoke circle over the bar top and rise up towards the mirrored ceiling. ‘We have two things in common, you and I,’ he said after a meditative silence. I raised my eyebrows. ‘Whisky and sarcasm,’ announced my fellow barfly, pushing over the Glenfiddich b...
By Kevin Pilley
from Issue 5 published on 4/8/1999
Michael Collins laid plans at the Palace Bar in Dublin, and Mary Robinson launched her bid for the presidency in the snug. Tom Atkin just went for a drink
You’ll never come across a stag night or a hen party in The Palace Bar. Like jukeboxes and slot machines, such things are banned from this famous Dublin haunt. ‘This is a conversation pub,’ says its friendly, broad-faced owner Liam Aherne. Even the dark wooden bar is divided, confessional style, int...
By Michael Collins
from Issue 3 published on 13/5/1999
Michael Jackson visits Sherlock's Home in Minnesota: he loves the bar, hates the pun
After a drink or three in a restful bar, I can find myself in deep philosophical thought. You know the sort of thing: ‘What chance encounters brought me to this point in my life? Why am I here? For that matter, why is this bar here?’
I suppose I should thank the American writer Alex Haley for one o...
By Michael Jackson
from Issue 2 published on 16/3/1999
