Berlin/Frankfurt (dpa/lhe) - At this year's Mixology Bar Awards, an award also goes to Frankfurt. Sven Riebel was voted "Host of the Year 2023" by "The Tiny Cup". His small bar is right on the banks of the Main, south of the Konstablerwache. Three years ago, a jury chose the location "The Kinly Bar" in Frankfurt's Bahnhofsviertel as "Bar of the Year" for 2020. The specialist magazine "Mixology" has been awarding its industry prizes since 2007.
The "Wax On" in Berlin has now been honored as "New Bar of the Year 2023" (with an emphasis on "New"), "Bar of the Year" was - for the second time after 2019 - the "Velvet", which is also located in Berlin district of Neukölln. For Austria, the Viennese "Truth
"Hotel Bar of the Year" was the "Widder Bar" in the luxury hotel of the same name in downtown Zurich. You also have the "Bar Menu of the Year," it said at the award ceremony on Sunday evening in Berlin.
"Newcomer of the Year" was bartender Rose-Manon Baux from "Wax On" in Berlin. The "Kink" restaurant in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg won in the categories "Restaurant-Bar of the Year" and "Bar Team of the Year". "Schumann's" in Munich was honored as "Bar Icon of the Year".
The specialist medium "Mixology - Magazin für Barkultur" presented its awards for the 16th time, although there had been no big gala and party in the last two years due to Corona. In addition, for the years 2022 and 2021 there were no descriptive categories such as "Bar of the Year", instead there were other honors for the industry, which was hit by the lockdowns.
