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Folktails. Better Drinks, Less Noise.

by Alf del Portillo

Weekly show about hospitality, food and drink, with cocktails and bartending at the center. Hosted by Alf, bartender and co-owner of Quattro Teste in Lisbon. Each episode: the week's news that actually matters behind the bar, social media chatter, a quick casual interview with someone from the industry, and a section reading real reviews left at bars and restaurants, for laughs. Global in scope, made from behind the bar, not from the outside. New episode every week.

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  1. Ep. 2: Californian dive bars, VAT, BCB and other acronyms I can't explain

    A mother in a Spanish village with no bus needed a bar that would feed her daughter once a week. That bar will never be on a list, and this was the week the bar industry sat down to grade itself. In this episode: Bar Convent Berlin turns twenty, drops to two days, and why the third day matters…

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  2. Ep. 1: 50 Best & A Bartender Older Than Your Grandpa

    The number for the week is three — the British bars in this year’s World’s 50 Best list. In the first episode of Folktails, we dig into what the new rankings actually say about who’s rising, who’s falling, and whether novelty has quietly become the real currency of the list (the bars climbing…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Weekly show about hospitality, food and drink, with cocktails and bartending at the center. Hosted by Alf, bartender and co-owner of Quattro Teste in Lisbon. Each episode: the week's news that actually matters behind the bar, social media chatter, a quick casual interview with someone from the industry, and a section reading real reviews left at bars and restaurants, for laughs. Global in scope, made from behind the bar, not from the outside. New episode every week.

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Alf del Portillo

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Weekly show about hospitality, food and drink, with cocktails and bartending at the center. Hosted by Alf, bartender and co-owner of Quattro Teste in Lisbon. Each episode: the week's news that actually matters behind the bar, social media chatter, a quick casual interview with someone from the...

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Folktails. Better Drinks, Less Noise. is created and hosted by Alf del Portillo.
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