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Yield wine bar opens third site on Essex Road
The Stoke Newington natural wine group has opened a bar and shop in Angel, its third London address in three years.
The Savoy reopens Beaufort Bar as Beaufort Wine Bar
The London hotel's Beaufort Bar reopens as Beaufort Wine Bar, with more than 250 wines from 18 countries and half the cellar poured by the glass.
Quique Dacosta Mahou dinner pairs four beers for €39
Five courses, four Mahou beers and one confirmed date. The chef's two Michelin-starred restaurants are on the programme, but their prices and dates are still to come.
Top Cocktail Bars gives three stars to Asturian Patio de Butacas
The Spanish and Portuguese bar guide puts a cocktail bar in Pola de Siero, a town of 13,000, alongside six bars in Madrid, Barcelona, Valladolid and Zaragoza.
Oktoberfest 2026 draws more foreigners but fewer visitors
Phone data put the Munich festival's opening weekend at 1.04 million people, slightly down on 2025, while one in three Saturday visitors came from abroad.
Byrdi Melbourne closes after six years in the CBD
Luke Whearty and Aki Nishikura have shut the Melbourne Central bar that made native Australian ingredients a cocktail discipline rather than a garnish.
Alcohol-free drinks are not a gateway, says new report
Club Soda's Gateway? No Way pulls together survey work and academic studies to test a claim the drinks industry has been arguing about for a decade.
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