Hannah Sharman-Cox, Siobhan Payne, and Dan Dove are the co-founders of The Pinnacle Guide (website, Instagram). Outside of their work on Pinnacle, Hannah and Siobhan oversee London Cocktail Week and Dan runs an agency called Global Bartending.
Pinnacle is an awards program for bars inspired by the Michelin Guide. Rather than win a category, as in many other competitions, like “best hotel bar” or “best bar in [your city], Pinnacle will award an establishment one, two, or three “pins”, rather than stars, based on the caliber of execution. And winning one is not a zero-sum game. If two bars in the same part of a city demonstrate the same excellence level, both can receive a pin.
Receiving a pin is a two-part process. An establishment will nominate itself and then if the application scores well, it will be anonymously reviewed. Read more here.
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