5. Molecular Mixology

Operators across the region are hungry for the latest techno-gadget, and devices which would probably be more at home in a science lab have become commonplace in many of the region’s cocktail bars.

Devices like vacuum sealers enable bartenders to infuse traditional cocktails with flavours from non-edible substances like tobacco and leather.

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“For example, the Rotovap is a vacuum rotary distillation machine that allows the extraction of aromas, low-temperature reduction of juices and the production of flavoured spirits,” says Blue Marlin Ibiza UAE’s Nanhooa.

“New techniques are constantly being developed around the new technology of the molecular gastronomy movement.”

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