From a rooftop perched some two hundred and eighty metres above the streets atop One Raffles Place, 1-Altitude offered drinkers one of the highest open-air vantage points in the world. The bar was the signature venue of the 1-Group, a Singapore hospitality company that built its reputation on dramatic settings and skyline dining. 1-Altitude became famous as a destination where guests could sip cocktails while gazing across the entire island and out to the sea, a giddy perch that made it a fixtu...

With panoramic views sweeping across the whole of Istanbul, from the Bosphorus and the historic peninsula to the Galata Tower, 360 Istanbul earned its name as one of the city's most spectacular rooftop destinations. Perched on the top floor of the historic Mısır Apartment on İstiklal Street in Beyoğlu, it has long combined fine dining by day with high-energy clubbing by night. The venue serves lunch and dinner from a creative menu of world and modern Turkish cuisine, accompanied by an exten...

Spanning gastropubs, cocktail bars and full-service restaurants across Norway, Akershusgruppen has become one of Oslo's most prolific hospitality operators. Founded in 2008 and based in the capital, the company built a diverse portfolio of dining and drinking venues catering to everything from casual gatherings to formal occasions. The group's restaurants and bars offer a broad range of food and beverages, with a notable emphasis on craft beer, whiskey and cocktails alongside their kitchens. B...

When a nomadic brewery called PINTA released a bold, hop-bursting beer in 2011, it is widely credited with firing the starting gun on Poland's modern craft-beer revolution. The taprooms and bars associated with pioneers such as PINTA and AleBrowar became showcases for a new generation of Polish brewing that broke decisively from the country's mass-market lager tradition. Browar PINTA began as small-scale home-brewing before establishing a nomadic operation in 2011 and later building a modern br...

It was conceived to solve a specific problem: in the early 1990s many pubs and bars still felt intimidating places for women to walk into alone. In February 1994, designer Amanda Wilmott, a former director of Slug & Lettuce, drew up a deliberately "female-friendly" bar concept for Bass, defined by glass frontages, open-plan layouts and bright, airy interiors that felt welcoming and safe rather than dark and cliquey. The first All Bar One opened that December in Sutton, in south London, run by B...

Boutique bowling was a phrase nobody used until Mark von Westenholz and Adam Breeden coined it, opening the first All Star Lanes in London's Holborn in January 2006 and reimagining the humble ten-pin alley as a glamorous, design-led night out. Out went the strip-light suburban bowling barn; in came leather banquettes, vintage Americana and a proper cocktail bar. The founders' idea was to marry bowling with the finer things, expertly mixed drinks, an American diner-inspired menu and a carefully ...

A Madrid-born philosopher named Antonio Escohotado leased an eighteenth-century farmhouse near San Rafael in 1976 and turned it into a sanctuary for free spirits, calling it El taller del olvido, the Workshop of Forgetfulness, where hippies could dance under the stars to escape their problems. When co-founder Manuel Sáenz de Heredia proposed the Greek-rooted word Amnesia, one of the most storied names in clubbing history was born. In those early years admission cost just twenty-five pesetas in...

After four years snapping the ball as an NFL center for the Houston Oilers and Philadelphia Eagles, Ron Lou spent decades reinventing himself as a restaurateur, launching breakfast spots, a sports bar and several Chinese restaurants. In 2013 the California native poured everything he had learned into something new, opening the first Angry Crab Shack in Mesa, Arizona, determined to build a concept that was not just another wing, burger or pizza place. His idea was to bring the hands-on seafood b...

The original name was a mouthful: "T. J. Applebee's Rx for Edibles & Elixirs." That was what Bill and T. J. Palmer hung over the door when they opened their first restaurant in Decatur, Georgia, on 19 November 1980. The Palmers had a clear thesis, to build an affordable, full-service neighborhood restaurant that sat just below the casual-dining mainstays in price while offering a warm, familiar place for a sit-down meal and a drink without much fuss. That neighborhood-bar-and-grill identity, ev...

On the banks of the Spree in the Treptow district, a sprawling former bus depot has been reborn as Arena Berlin, one of the capital's most versatile cultural and events complexes. Since opening in the mid-1990s, the site has hosted concerts, club nights, trade fairs, festivals and exhibitions within its enormous hall and surrounding riverside grounds. The complex grew from Berlin's post-reunification appetite for vast, raw industrial spaces, repurposing the cavernous depot into a flexible venue...