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World Class Festival Experiences Revealed, With One Week Left To Go

With just over one week to go, the Diageo Reserve World Class Festival has announced the schedule of exciting guests, venues, and unique experiences to surprise and delight attendees in bars and venues in Dublin, with key events taking place nationwide. Taking place from the 4th – 6th of May 2023, the Diageo Reserve World Class Festival …

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For One Night Only! London’s American Bar at The Savoy is Taking Over this Cork Hotspot

The Savoy’s “American Bar” is the oldest cocktail bar in Britain and one of the most renowned bars in the world. It was named World’s Best Bar at Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards 2018 and the World’s Best Bar at World’s 50 Best in 2017. The American Bar’s ethos combines innovation, simplicity and glamour …

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Treat your Mam this Mother’s Day with a Special Tasting Menu at Greenes

Multi-award-winning Greenes Restaurant in Cork city is pulling out all the stops this Mother’s Day with a special five-course lunch tasting menu – the perfect way to spoil your Mam this year! The Mother’s Day Lunch Tasting Menu is designed by executive head chef Bryan McCarthy and will be available exclusively on Sunday, March 31st. …

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Cask Cocktail Bar Hosts Top London Drinks Lab for One Night Only

For one night only award-winning Cork cocktail bar, Cask, will play host to a special takeover by the visionary team behind Crucible, a London-based creative hub for the drinks and flavour industry. On Wednesday, 20th February, the Crucible takeover will take place at Cask. The event is sponsored by Irish Distillers Pernod-Ricard’s Affinity Brand Company. …

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Cask Cork to Host the World’s ‘Best New International Cocktail Bar’

Ireland’s newly crowned Bar of the Year 2018, Cask cocktail bar and food venue on MacCurtain Street in Cork city’s Victorian Quarter, is hosting an exciting once-off bar takeover by Chris Moore of the multi-award-winning London cocktail bar Coupette on Monday the 17th of September. Chris Moore was head bartender of the world-renowned Beaufort Bar …

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Cork’s Cask Scoops Ireland’s Top Bar Of The Year 2018 Award

Boutique cocktail and food venue, Cask, is this year’s winner of Ireland’s most prestigious Bar of the Year title at the Bar of the Year Awards 2018, Ireland’s premium awards for the licensed trade. Cork city’s Cask was up against more than 500 other entries in the overall Bar of the Year 2018 category. It …

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Cask’s Carl D’Alton Crowned World Class Irish Bartender of the Year 2018

The celebrations were in full swing last weekend as Carl D’Alton from Cork’s Cask cocktail bar was crowned World Class Irish Bartender of the Year 2018. Competitors battled it out in front of a live audience and renowned judges at Taste of Dublin. This is another win for Cask as Carl takes the title from colleague Andy …

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Cork’s Most Exciting Cocktail Bar is Hosting a Series of Bar Takeovers

Cork’s most exciting and popular cocktail bar, Cask, is hotting things up this summer with a series of special Bar Takeovers. Over the next three months, Cask will play host to some of the leading bars in the industry. Award-winning Callooh Callay will kick off the first of the takeovers on Wednesday 27th June. The world famous cocktail bar …

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Cask Bartender Represents Ireland at Bacardi Legacy Global Cocktails Championships 2018

Bartender Tony Barry from the multi-award-winning Cask bar in Cork city, is currently representing Ireland at the global finals of the prestigious Bacardi Legacy Global Cocktails Competition. Taking place in Mexico City’s Museo Numismatico Nacional from April 29th until the May 1st, the competition has a total of 34 countries taking part. The final round …

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Blackwater Juniper Cask Gin Prawn Cocktail Recipe by Chef Bryan McCarthy Picture: Miki Barlok

Blackwater Juniper Cask Gin Prawn Cocktail Recipe by Chef Bryan McCarthy

This Blackwater Juniper Cask Gin Prawn Cocktail Recipe was created by by Bryan McCarthy, Executive Head Chef of both Cask and Greenes, Cork city. A quirky reinvention of a classic dish, Bryan updates a prawn cocktail serving delectable Dublin Bay prawns with a Blackwater Juniper Cask Gin Cocktail Sauce and Poacher’s Tonic & Tomato Water …

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Try Signature Tipples at these 15 Irish Bars with Creative Cocktail Menus

Discover One of a Kind Drinks from the Creative Cocktail Menus at these 15 Irish Bars

Ask any musician: Mastering the classics is not an easy task but composing your own melodies can be as daunting, and even among those with the talent to flawlessly perform a difficult piece, creating new music is a challenge. Just like them, the best bartenders have to go beyond perfected techniques and fine instruments if they want …

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Cork Bartender Andy Ferreira to Represent Ireland at World Class Finals in Mexico

Cask Bar’s Andy Ferreira to Represent Ireland at World Class Bartending Finals in Mexico

Andy Ferreira, bartender behind the acclaimed Corkonian bar Cask has a new reason to raise a a glass and toast as he prepares to compete among the world’s top bartenders at the World Class Finals in Mexico City next week. The competition for one of the most highly coveted accolades in the global bartending scene will …

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Uncorking One of the Most Exciting New Additions to The Rebel City – Cask Cork Review

When you have a mixologist that has just won the World Class Drinks Irish Bartender of the Year from a newly opened bar and restaurant in the“Real Capital” as we were informed on Twitter you start to take notice. We hard heard excellent reports that the Cask was fast becoming the place to be in …

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Andy Ferreira of Cask in Cork Crowned World Class Irish Bartender of the Year

Andy Ferreira from Cask in Cork was announced the ‘World Class Irish Bartender of the Year 2017’ at this week’s Irish Final which took place in Zozimus Bar, Dublin. Andy will go on to represent Ireland in the World Class Global Final 2017 which will take place in Mexico City this coming September. World Class …

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Cask Bar & Restaurant, Cork City

Boutique cocktail and food venue Cask on MacCurtain Street in the Victorian Quarter of Cork city has been gaining plaudits since opening in February 2017 for its innovative, seasonal, farm-to-glass cocktails, designed by manager and accomplished mixologist Andy Ferreira, and street food-inspired, small plates food menu created by award-winning head chef Bryan McCarthy. A cutting-edge, …

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