When Alex Kratena and Monica Berg opened their sleek, stylish, very inclusive and much lauded bar Tayer + Elementary on June 1 2019, little did they know that they’d be spending its inaugural anniversary in lockdown. Which is particularly cruel given the fact that it took them three long years to get the lease done

If you think you’ve got it tough, consider what it’s like to own a business in Beirut right now. After the recent devastation witnessed in the news last week Jad Ballout talks about surviving a government in turmoil, the challenges of lockdown and experiencing the bar that he built with his wife being blown up

It’s been a while but The Cocktail Lovers magazine is back and our latest issue is all about change. Like it or not, we’ve all been through it over the past few months. Some of it has been good – we’ve had less time to be wrapped up in being ‘busy’ and could actually focus