{"id":39,"date":"2024-09-09T04:26:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T04:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cencluna.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/wordpress-workshop\/?p=39"},"modified":"2024-09-09T04:26:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T04:26:26","slug":"vancouvers-cocktail-culture-how-the-keefer-bar-sets-the-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cencluna.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/wordpress-workshop\/2024\/09\/09\/vancouvers-cocktail-culture-how-the-keefer-bar-sets-the-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver\u2019s Cocktail Culture: How The Keefer Bar Sets the Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/cencluna.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/wordpress-workshop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/The-Keefer-Bar_Dave-Hamilton__MG_8545-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cencluna.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/wordpress-workshop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/The-Keefer-Bar_Dave-Hamilton__MG_8545-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/cencluna.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/wordpress-workshop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/The-Keefer-Bar_Dave-Hamilton__MG_8545-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/cencluna.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/wordpress-workshop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/The-Keefer-Bar_Dave-Hamilton__MG_8545-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/cencluna.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/wordpress-workshop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/The-Keefer-Bar_Dave-Hamilton__MG_8545-1536x864.webp 1536w, https:\/\/cencluna.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/wordpress-workshop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/The-Keefer-Bar_Dave-Hamilton__MG_8545.webp 1791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Vancouver, a city overflowing with Pacific Rim glittering wealth, this Chinatown-adjacent jewel-box of a bar has quietly persisted for more than a decade. Today, it&#8217;s on the fringe of an ever-shrinking historic Chinatown that the bar&#8217;s original concept (using Chinese apothecary-style inspiration to create libations with a wink to remedies and cures) nodded to and honoured. The idea could feel appropriated if dreamed up in the current cultural moment, and were Keefer&#8217;s credibility and true stakes in the community not already so well entrenched.<br><br>A drink like the Tokyo Drift still stirs together ingredients like Toki, amber vermouth, kumquat gomme and tobacco-inspired bitters with a knowing, fast-and-furious nod to smart, mindful cultural fusion \u2013 served with a charred sesame-wafer garnish as pungent as a trail of burnt rubber. A pandemic-era pivot, the lively Keefer Yard, is a covered adjacent outdoor space with lively games and atmosphere and a less-precious drinks philosophy (think: a Bobby Burns or an Oaxacan Old Fashioned). Keefer Bar also introduced a Code of Conduct with zero-tolerance not only for flouting pandemic-era health and safety conditions, but one that affirms the respectful, civilised atmosphere (&#8220;we do not tolerate creeps or predatory behaviour&#8221;) created by powerhouse managing partner Amber Bruce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Vancouver, a city overflowing with Pacific Rim glittering wealth, this Chinatown-adjacent jewel-box of a bar has quietly persisted for more than a decade. 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