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Line

Athens

All whitewashed walls and neck-craning ceilings, this former art gallery is the digs of Athens cocktail royalty Vasilis Kyritsis and Nikos Bakoulis (alongside Three Cents’ Dimitris Dafopoulos). Just a few klicks from the pair’s downtown debut venue, The Clumsies, Line needed to be big to accommodate its owners' ambitions: to redefine craft bartending.

Here, they don’t just mix and serve products, they also make many of them on site. That means back-of-house stainless-steel tanks gently fermenting with the season’s bounty – the latest of them being a strawberry wine, a ferment of yellow and white peach and a winter melon vermouth. What’s left from this process finds its way into delicious fruit-cheeses that act as an invitation to try Line’s house-made bread, which itself shares a family history with the on-site beer. The ingredient circularity doesn’t stop there – the fruit ferments find their way into the cocktails too, delivering delicious seasonal twists on favourite classics. If stocks and seasons allow, try the Alexander with strawberry wine and the Peach Mojito.

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