Audio Series: Angelos Bafas

Born and raised in Greece, Angelos has worked in a number of cities before deciding that London would be home in 2019. Working in high-end restaurants and bars around the city, before opening Nipperkin with Creative Restaurant Group, and then Kioku Bar - both of which have a Japanese inspired approach to them. Now Angelos is focusing on his newly launched consultancy business, and is the managing director of Cato, a new bar opening in Covent Garden.

It was during the pandemic that the idea for his first book Hyper Drinks came about, although it sounds like these are ideas that have been on his mind for a lot longer. His approach to drinks is through ingredients and understanding the processes of making and creating delicious liquids – from the idea of fermentation, distilling and what makes flavour. It is with this all in mind that we delve into sugar, both as an ingredient but as away to make (and balance) a cocktail.

And, we talk about how drinks are quite frankly - magic!