The Japanese Bitters by Yuki Yamazaki
The latest report on the 3-city bar scene in Canada!

Yuki Yamazaki, the creator of The Japanese Bitters and a bartender who has been touring the bar scene around the world for promotion, recently visited Canada for the first time in about 10 years.Montreal and Toronto in the east and Vancouver on the west coast......, what is going on in the Canadian bar scene right now!

writer：Drink Planet

A commemorative photo at the CN Tower, a tourist attraction in Toronto!

Everything has evolved, and the bar scene in Canada has evolved.

Bartender Yuki Yamazaki is the creator of The Japanese Bitters, the world's first made-in-Japan bitters.

Drink Planet readers are probably familiar with The Japanese Bitters, and many of you may actually use it in your restaurants.

Did you know that the impetus for the development of The Japanese Bitters actually came from Canada!

For more details, please see this article.

Mr. Yamazaki was a bartender in Toronto, Canada for about 2 years around 2010-2012.

His last visit to Canada was in 2015, so it has been about 10 years since his last visit to Canada.

How has the Canadian bar scene changed since then?

This time I visited Montreal and Toronto in the east and Vancouver on the west coast, but this was my first time in Vancouver, so I can only give you my impression of the bar culture in the big eastern cities.For example, 10 years ago, if a Japanese bartender had skills, he or she would have been very useful in any bar.Just shaving round ice would have been enough to make everyone say, 'Wow!(laughs).

The level of skill, the quality of the ice, the bar tools, the variety of ingredients, the balance and flavor of the cocktails that came out, all of these things have improved dramatically," he said.