Post Shift Podcast #142 - Monica Berg, Tayer + Elementary

For the huge 300th episode of the Post Shift Podcast, I had to get one of the most prolific hospitality industry professionals in the world, Monica Berg. From helping to create and build Norway's cocktail culture to the long road to open her and partner, Alex Kratena's cutting edge Tayer + Elementary, a combination local bar and high concept bar in the same space. Monica has been behind so many projects and initiatives that we only scratched the surface of what she has accomplished in her career.

MORE ABOUT MONICA

Monica Berg is a London based multi – award winning bartender and entrepreneur. Her work includes Muyu liqueurs and recently opened London bar(s) Tayēr + Elementary with partner Alex Kratena – named the No 1 spot to drink in London 2019 by Time Out, and in 2020 debuted as no 5 on The Worlds 50 Best Bars.

In 2017 she received the “Industry Improver” award at the Nordic Bartender’s Choice Awards, and featured in Wallpaper* Graduate Directory 2018, as one of the brightest new talents to watch.

She continues to be recognized for her distinctive and adventurous drinks style, and in 2019 won both the prestigious “International Bartender of The Year” at Spirited Awards, Tales of The Cocktail, and “Bartender’s Bartender” by The Worlds 50 Best Bars.

She is the co-founder of P(OUR), an industry non- profit and charity, which works to expand drinks knowledge across the bar community and supports communities producing regional ingredients for the drinks and food industry.

Her latest project is BackOfHouse.Info, a free online resource for small businesses to get anonymous feedback from their teams, and where employees can flag harmful behavior, discrimination and harassment.

In 2020 Monica Berg and Alex Kratena won the Bar Innovators Of The Year Award by Class Magazine and during Covid19 crisis launched Tayēr RTD; a collection of ready to drink bottled cocktails, which bring together the best of classics and contemporary flavours.

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Share a dram with the hospitality industry’s top global talents: bartenders, venue owners, distillers and industry aficionados. Shawn Soole has lived, breathed, and imbibed hospitality for decades. Now, he delves into the advice, opinions, and provocative stories that are helping to define the creative, culturally-necessary space of ‘modern hospitality’—covering topics from front-of-house service, to back-end business operations, and every inch between.