You land in a new city, drop your bags at the hotel and, naturally, open Google Maps. “Cocktail bar.” There are 137 results. There are rooftop bars, hotel lounges, nightclubs, restaurants with cocktail menus, “speakeasies” hidden behind unmarked doors, and places whose five-star reviews seem to be mostly about the music, the lighting, and the attractive people behind the bar. So, what makes a traveling drinker choose a bar over the dozens of others on the map? First, they'll

Sit down at almost any decent restaurant and the first thing you'll hear is some version of "any allergies or dietary restrictions we should know about?" Kitchens ask because they know food comes with risk, and asking costs nothing. Walk up to most cocktail bars, though, and that question rarely comes up at all, even though a modern cocktail menu can carry just as many of the same ingredients as the kitchen next door. Egg whites, dairy, animal fat, nuts: they're all sitting i

Sarissa brought Employees Only from New York to Singapore, shaping and educating an entire generation of dive-bar cocktail drinkers along the way. Sarissa’s journey took her from New York to Singapore in 2011, where she was recruited to help build what would become one of the most successful clubs in the world at Marina Bay Sands. That experience laid the foundation for a career beyond nightlife operations, eventually giving her the opportunity to launch her own F&B company,