The secret to being a good bartender, according to Colin Field?
In my own little head, I was in a Bond film for five seconds, he says.)
Forbes named him as the worlds best bartender in 1997, 2001, and 2004.
Bartender Colin Field in Bar Hemingway at the Ritz Paris in 1996.
Meanwhile, in 2011, he created the worlds first advanced degree for bartenders in France at Sorbonne University.
Now, you might take home a bit of Bar Hemingway along with you.
(One was a gift from Moss herself.)
Six Puiforcat glasses emblazoned with “Bar Hemingway” are just many of the mixology treasures offered in the Christie’s auction.
We are so honored to offer Colins collection at Christies.
So why is he letting them go?
The whole purpose of his objects, said Colin, was to inspire conversation between customers at Bar Hemingway.
Antique typewriters from the Christie’s auction “Colin Peter Field’s Treasures: The Collection of Ritz’s Bar Hemingway Former Bartender.”
Now that hes departed his post, he hopes they can inspire animated chatter elsewhere.
Theres just so much to talk to people in the Hemingway Bar with all those things, he says.
The online sale will begin on February 29 and run through March 4.
