Colin Peter Field
bartender and writer
Colin Peter Field (born 17 May 1961 at Rugby, West Midlands, England) is a bartender and author who has been ranked as best bartender in the world by Forbes and Travel + Leisure magazines. He is the head bartender at the Hemingway Bar of the Hôtel Ritz Paris, voted Best of the Best Bar in the World by Virtuoso in Las Vegas in 2016, and has invented several drinks, such as the Picasso Martini, Highland Cream, Serendipity and Clean Dirty Martini. He is involved in the training of students for bartending in France and in Switzerland, and has authored the books The Cocktails of the Ritz Paris and Cocktails, A Simple Story.
Career
Forbes and Travel + Leisure magazines have stated that Field is the world's best bartender. Forbes stated Field was the world's best bartender in 1997, 2001, and 2004. Field has presided over the Hemingway Bar at Hôtel Ritz Paris as head bartender. since its opening in 1994, though the hotel closed for refurbishment in 2012 and opened in 2016.
Field earned the silver medal for the Scott Cup for French Bartenders in 1982 before going on to take the silver medal for the world title (Martini Grand Prix for Bartenders in the same year.
He was the first bartender to be published in the French version of Who's Who, which occurred in 2011. Field has offered cocktail courses to the public at the Hôtel Ritz Paris, in which participants receive a signed certificate from Field upon completion of the course, and is involved in the training of students for bartending and degree courses in the Cesar Ritz school in Montreux, Switzerland.
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