bringing drinks to life

 

This is the first year in which Bar10 has taken the decision to charge, which as the organisers have stated, was a move to try to put off the blaggers who have previously treated the show as little more than an excuse to get drunk. To my mind they definitely went some way towards achieving this goal. Unfortunately the flip side of that coin is that it seems to have put off a lot of the bartenders and bar managers too as attendance felt lower than previous years. That being said it was good to see a crowd of ‘the right’ people at the show.

 

To be honest I hadn’t given Bar10 (or London Bar Show as it is more popularly known) a lot of thought this year. I had rather assumed that it was business as usual. I had heard they had moved back to the Business Design Centre in Islington, the smaller venue where Bar began it’s life, but other than that I assumed that not much would be different.

 

 

Then out of nowhere I saw a few threads on facebook with outraged bartenders complaining about the ticket price… ticket price?… that can’t be right! Bar has always been a free to attend event.