Commemorate Día de Muertos with Baltra Bar at the Fairmont Pacific Rim

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The Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel welcomes Mexico City’s renowned Baltra Bar, ranked #45 on the World’s 50 Best Bars and #16 on North America’s 50 Best Bars lists, for a special one-of-a-kind collaborative cocktail experience in celebration of Día de Muertos (“Day of the Dead”) from November 2 to 3.

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Commemorate Día de Muertos with Baltra Bar at the Fairmont Pacific Rim

Elegant and Intoxicating: An Ode to Classic Cocktails in Vancouver

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The following article was submitted by Tourism Vancouver staffer, Sonu Purhar.

Fancy infusions, liquid nitrogen and inventive ice… these days, it’s par for the course to find your coupe filled with a (damn delicious) work of art – but let’s not forget from whence they came. Yes, I’m talking about The Classic Cocktail.

As with any historical certainty, no one is certain when and where the cocktail originated. What we can agree on is that these stimulating brews traditionally consisted of spirits, sugar and bitters. By the mid-1800s, liqueur had joined as the fourth horseman. And shortly thereafter, the first genuine “cocktails” were born, including our friends the Sazerac, Old Fashioned and Manhattan. If it weren’t for these forerunners, you’d be sipping on bitter bathtub gin.

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Elegant and Intoxicating: An Ode to Classic Cocktails in Vancouver