by Michael White | Feb 4, 2022 | Features
As bourbon brand ambassador, Ray Daniel is living the dram When Ray Daniel applied for an after-school job at an unremarkable “country pub” in his native Ireland, he didn’t realize he was walking the first steps of his career path—after all, he was only 14 and his...
by Michael White | Aug 20, 2021 | Features
‘Knowledge is meant to be shared,’ says Bacardi’s Kevin Brownlee Countless bartenders have arrived at their profession from unlikely origins, but Kevin Brownlee doesn’t consider his career trajectory odd. He believes he simply traded one education role for another. A...
by Michael White | Feb 12, 2021 | Features
How Reece Sims shares her love of the water of life When Reece Sims graduated from the University of Victoria, in 2009, with a Bachelor of Commerce, she thought she might go on to become a lawyer. Instead, after tenures in marketing for the fashion and architecture...
by Michael White | May 29, 2020 | Stories
In our new column, Kelowna bartender Harry Dosanj reveals how his unlikely career was born Harry Dosanj is a multiple-award-winning bartender who has twice ranked among Canada’s best bartenders in the Diageo World Class competition. His accomplishments are especially...
by Michael White | Feb 8, 2019 | Features
Our man-about-town discovers that taking a seat at the bar is a social act, even for the solo sipper Earlier this year, for no apparent reason, multiple stories were published about the stigma of eating in a restaurant alone, each of them offering counsel as to why no...
