The Curator Coffee and Cocktails in Asia’s 50 Best Bars
Since 2016, this bar in Legaspi Village, Makati has put the Philippines on the map by consistently being in Asia’s Top 50 Best Bars. The Curator is a bar-coffee shop-café combo that should be on your bar crawl list, ranked 25 in this year’s list of Asia’s 50 Best Bars.
Coffee by day and kick-ass cocktails by night /IMAGE grabbed from The Curator Facebook Page
Masters of both coffee and cocktails, the team at The Curator offers drinks that are an art, science, and craft. The place has a bright café at the front while behind the almost-hidden sliding door is the intimate and cozy bar that attracts both the young and the brave cocktail lovers and caffeine fiends. The coffee bar stays open until 7 p.m. After that, The Curator transforms from a humble café to a bar with 11 cocktails to choose from all at Php 450. However, the artists behind the bar are very open to requests and challenges at no extra cost.
The Curator also has many events, special guests, and theme nights where they feature internationally acclaimed and fellow 50 Best Bars bartenders. They also hold coffee and cocktail events making sure that your every visit is not the same. This tradition could be one of the ways how the bar has kept their name in Asia’s 50 Best Bars for three years in a row however, it really is the team. The listing is compiled from the votes of Asia’s 50 Best Bars Academy, comprised of more than 200 drinks experts, including renowned bartenders and consultants, drinks writers and cocktail specialists from across Asia. The result is The Curator Coffee and Cocktails’ strong reputation as the best bar in the Philippines.
The Curator is at Unit 2, 1st Floor, Legaspi Park View Condominium, Legaspi Village, Makati City (inside Cyrano Wine Shop). You can contact them for reservations at 0916-355-4129.
Also read: The Curator in Makati: A not-so-speakeasy bar
Written by Heloise Diamante, with information from World’s 50 Best Bars
