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Best Bars 2025 No. 37

Gift Shop

There’s a new reason to visit this bar tucked behind Barber & Co. Mike Lamantia, from nearby Bar Koukla, has taken over from the longtime bartender known as H (now at this year’s number 26 bar, XXX). Lamantia mixes up inventive house originals and bulletproof classics with a keen focus on defined, complex and slightly offbeat flavours. Case in point: The hybrid Pornstar Martinez is a serious take on a silly disco drink crossed with the Martini’s precursor, but made with passionfruit, fig leaf, aquavit, pisco and sweet vermouth.

Drink
The Man in the Yellow Hat: rum, cachaça, banana and espresso bean, garnished with torched Camembert cheese.
Guest shifts
Local bar talent takes over the stick monthly.

Photography by Rick O’Brien


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