Xania Woodman

First Food & Bar to focus on the fairer sex First Food & Bar in the Palazzo. Isaac Brekken Sun, Feb 14, 2010 (4 p.m.) First Food & Bar will launch its new female-centric weekly, First Ladies Retail Therapy Thursdays, on March 4. The party begins when ladies arrive and receive their First Lady card. The custom membership card gives all women access to $5 specialty drinks and cocktails all night long plus a little much-needed retail therapy (gift bags!) as provided by partner Dior Cosmetics.

When the fifth annual Barra México returns on June 9 and 10 to Mexico City’s massive Centro Citibanamex, it will do so in a larger convention space than last year, welcoming more attendees, speakers and presenters, and offering an even more comprehensive educational program. With all of that “more” to experience, attendees will encounter (or, rather, generate) considerably less of one very specific thing.

Pioneering bar owner and impresario of the sustainability movement Ryan Chetiyawardana looks enviably content, pecking away on his laptop, kicked back in a late-afternoon sunbeam when I meet him in the sunken living room area of his latest project, just days away from opening. Super Lyan—a combo garden lounge and cozy neighborhood bar inside Amsterdam’s Kimpton De Witt Hotel—opens to the public bright and early on April 19 in the city’s central Palace Quarter district.