[:it]Mix Contest Italy Tour – IV stage: Genoa[:]
[:en]The most famous cocktail challenge in Italy arrives under the Lanterna. Monday 22 October 2018 will be Genoa the theatre of the fourth appointment of Mix Contest Italy Tour, the competition that will run along the entire Peninsula and crown the best bartender in Italy MT Magazine. In the elegant Hotel Nh Collection Genova Marina, overlooking the city's ancient port, 10 cocktail bars represented by their bartenders will compete to win two passes to the national final in February 2019.
It started as a small city event around the world of mixology, but Mix Contest has come a long way since then. Thought of as one battle between Turin bartenders, who for one evening would have had to leave the counter of their cocktail bar to compete in front of an audience of ordinary people and experts in the sector, the event immediately received the enthusiastic approval of all the participants, who loudly asked for a new edition.
So Lalla Carello, creator and organizer of the format together with the To Be agency, had an idea: expand the competition to bartenders from other Italian cities, keeping Turin as the theater of individual events which saw mixologists from Milan, Bologna, Florence and Rome compete. Each event decreed two winners who, representing their city, battled to win the title of best bartender in Italy.
Today Mix Contest is back with great news: no longer static events but a real tour that will visit some of the Italian cities most suited to mixing during 2018 for historical or contemporary reasons.
The new format is called Mix Contest Italy Tour and left Turin on 23 July 2018.
MIX CONTEST ITALY TOUR – GENOA
The next city that will host the Mix Contest Italy Tour will be Genoa, which in the suggestive setting of the NH Collection Genova Marina, overlooking the city's Old Port, will see 10 cocktail bars compete to win two passes to the national final in February 2019.
The competing cocktail bars will be
- Gradisca Café with Giulio Tabaletti
- Malkovitchwith Gianluca Grandoni
- Sketchwith Francesco Serra
- The Redswith Edoardo Nervo
- The Balance Cocktail Barwith Lorenzo Burrone
- NH Collection Genova Marinawith Monica Gioielli
- In Rumèntawith Federica Mellano
- Locksmith Secret Barwith Davide Volterra
- Monkeys' barwith Matteo Mazzetti
- The Clab Genoawith Diego Gualtieri
The next stages will be:
- Monday 19th November NH Collection Milano
- Wednesday 6th December NH Collection Roma
- Monday 14th January NH Collection Parma
- Monday 11th February NH Collection Siena
Each stage will see how the NH Hotel Group Hotels were the venue for the competition, official partner of the Mix Contest Italy Tour together with Caribbean Company And Schweppes.
The grand finale, which will crown the best bartender in Italy, will be held in February 2019 in a location that remains secret for the moment.
THE FORMAT
The format will be the same as the first edition: 10 cocktail bars, represented by their bartender or their reference barlady, will prepare two cocktails – a pre-dinner and an after-dinner – which will come served to the participating public and subjected to the judgment of a technical jury made up of experts and professionals in the sector. At the end of each event, the public votes will be added to the votes of the technical jury and two city winners will be chosen. At the end of the tour, in a location still shrouded in mystery, the finalists will compete with the same rules to win the title of best bartender in Italy MT Magazine.
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