This March, I was blown away by the creativity of some of the best bars in the world. Not were they making cocktails, but they were saving the planet.
On the 17 and 18th of March 2024, the third edition of the Paradiso Sustainability Summit, organized by Giacomo Giannotti and his team, in partnership with Ketel One Vodka through their Garnished with Good program was held.
Giacomo’s bar Paradiso is ranked one of the best Bars in the world and he established the Summit three years ago as an exchange of ideas and tools with the aim of raising awareness and making the industry more sustainable.
This year, the event took place at Palo Alto – an indoor and outdoor space chosen for its approach to helping local communities. There were two stages for masterclasses, seminars, and workshops, a marketplace where local organizations showcased their sustainable projects and products, and of course pop-ups of all the invited international and local bars serving cocktails all day long!
While I was there I caught up with not only Giacomo, but a few of the other speakers who are my guests on the program today.
Riccardo Rossi and Michele Filip from Rome’s Freni e Frizioni, Paul Voza from Oslo’s Himkok, Vasilis Kyritsis and Dimitris Dafopoulos from Line in Athens, Alexandros Tselepis and Konstantinos Theodorakopoulos from The Bar in Front of The Bar also in Athens, Partick Howley from So Let’s Talk, and last but certainly not least Timothy Etherington-Judge of Avallen Calvados and Healthy Hospo who gives us the place to start with sustainability to have the greatest impact.
It was truly an eye-opening event and they will most definitely inspire you to do more.
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