Regularly making “world’s best” lists, Japanese bars are having a moment. But as Matt Alt wrote in this 2018 piece explaining how Western mixology and cocktail arts became such an integral part of Japanese drinking culture, Tokyo’s bars rose long ago as unexpected icons of the global cocktail scene and the city was once described as the “cocktail capital of the world”.
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