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This is the first in a series of special pre-announced awards in the month leading up to the second annual announcement of North America\u2019s 50 Best Bars 2023, sponsored by Perrier. It will be held at a live awards ceremony taking place at Hacienda Los Picachos in San Miguel de Allende in Mexico on Thursday, May 4, 2023, at 6:30 pm CST\/8:30 pm EDT. This represents the first time the awards ceremony will be staged in Mexico and salutes its presence on the global cocktail scene. North America\u2019s 50 Best Bars, together with market-leading The World\u2019s 50 Best Bars and Asia\u2019s 50 Best Bars, provide consumers with the most reliable list of expert-approved drinking destinations anywhere in the world. <\/p>\n
Mark Sansom, Content Director for North America\u2019s 50 Best Bars, says: \u201cThe Canadian bar community has forged a culture of exceptional hospitality that Botanist Bar exemplifies. Located at the far Western edge of the continent, the bar welcomes locals and travelers alike, with the bar team giving their all every shift to guarantee a memorable and bespoke experience for each guest. This nurturing approach to hospitality extends to the bar team itself, which enjoys a three-day weekend on average to help maintain a healthy work-life balance. In the cocktail world of cold hands and warm hearts, Botanist Bar is a shining example and a deserved recipient of the Michter\u2019s Art of Hospitality Award.\u201d <\/p>\n
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Botanist Bar led under the guidance of Creative Beverage Director Grant Sceney and spearheaded by Head Bartender Jeff Savage, is ensconced in the award-winning Botanist restaurant housed in the Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel. Inspired by the principles of botany, the bar celebrates the Pacific Northwest\u2019s unique biodiversity in its culinary-forward approach using state-of-the-art techniques. Botanist Bar\u2019s Cocktail Lab, a bartender\u2019s studio stocked with a rotary evaporator, centrifuges and a band saw for size-specific ice sculpting, encourages unbridled creativity and precise, chemist-like executions of its house-made tinctures, shrubs, and syrups. Guests are brought into conversations about ingredients and sophisticated processes, layering in intellectual depth to the bar\u2019s unconditional and expansive hospitality. <\/p>\n
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Savage says: \u201cWinning the Michter\u2019s Art of Hospitality Award is a distinct and completely humbling honour. We have cheered from afar watching bars we deeply admire receive this accolade and to be a part of the conversation alongside them is a gift. Hospitality is truly the most important aspect of what we do at Botanist. It\u2019s ingrained in every decision we make. Botanist is blessed to be able to act as an ambassador for Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Oftentimes, we have guests who make our bar their first stop in the country, and we aim to not only show the best of what our little slice of the world has to offer, but to do so in the most welcoming, inclusive manner possible. It\u2019s truly a gift to be recognized as a leading bar in Canada, and to win an award for something so important to us is an experience beyond words.\u201d <\/p>\n