Senior Cocktail Editor
Priya is barsforKings' senior cocktail editor and a former contributor to Punch. She reads a bar through its menu first: how the list is sequenced, which spirits get house pours, and whether the signature drink is built to a recipe or to a feeling.
She has tracked the modern cocktail bar from London's Soho to the agave rooms of Mexico City and the low-intervention bars of Singapore. Her test for a great cocktail bar is simple. Order the second-cheapest drink on the list and see if the bar treats it with the same care as its showpiece.
Priya sets the editorial standard for every cocktail-bar entry on the site and personally reviews the spirit and menu notes before they publish.
How a list is built, sequenced, and priced, and what that says about the bar behind it.
Which bottles earn a place on the back bar, and which are there to pad the margin.
Where the negroni, the daiquiri, and the martini are made to a standard worth the trip.
London, Athens, Lisbon, Singapore, and Tokyo, the cities Priya edits most closely.
Priya Nair has written and reviewed 99 guides for barsforKings. A selection of recent work: