Today, July 31, 2012, marks the closing of The Ritz for major renovations. The grand hotel closed in stages, starting with the Escoffier cooking school and the Hemingway Bar. The Ritz has been home to ...

The secret to being a good bartender, according to Colin Field? “People must feel your presence when you’re in the bar,” he tells Vogue. “When a good bartender walks into a bar, everybody notices.

From February 29 to March 13 th Christie’s Paris is showing the personal collection of Colin Peter Field, the former barman of the renowned Bar Hemingway at the Ritz Paris. Auction estimates range ...

American novelist Ernest Hemingway loved his home in Cuba and a good drink, so what is a better way to honor the writer - and possibly thaw U.S.-Cuban relations - than to open a bar in his honor in ...

PARIS: Even for Ernest Hemingway, a man whose bravado was matched only by his thirst, his liberation of the Ritz Hotel's bar in Paris was the stuff of legend. Officially the Nobel prize-winning author ...

If you’re on the trail of Ernest Hemingway in Paris, you can’t pass up the Ritz. Except for now, you’ll have to. The iconic Paris hotel has been closed for extensive renovations. It had been expected ...

Cities such as New York and London are revered for their legacy bars dating to the rise of cocktails culture. However, Paris also merits consideration as a historical heavy hitter, first fueled by the ...

On his personal website Colin Peter Field presents himself plainly as a “bartender” and shares a list of his favorite spirits, including the ubiquitous Grey Goose Vodka and Maker’s Mark Bourbon. But ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about travel and food. So I love forks in the road. After one night at the Hemingway I felt welcome. By the second, I was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Hotel Pont Roya/Getty PARIS—The tiny Left Bank bar where Zelda Fitzgerald ...