While other bartending schools cost more and offer more time-consuming workshops (their workshops are GREAT too!), but they are geared towards bar and restaurant managers and owners.

Our focus is on preparing you in as little time as you require by teaching only the essentials in our intensive workshops – we are not training you to be managers or owners (though a lot of our graduates end up becoming managers) – we are training you to be bartenders!

The regular price is $250 each person, university and college students get 20% off with student ID’s. Group discounts are available too.

In the intensive workshop, we will go over the bar setup, product knowledge, the bar equipment, tools and glassware. We then cover the basic as well as advanced techniques used to prepare cocktails and the proper way to serve the cocktails. Finally, everyone will participate in the hands-on mixing sessions and hands-on and written exams at the end of the workshop.

Not only will you be equipped with the knowledge and skills to be an awesome bartender, you will also receive a certificate that states that you have completed training in professional bartending and mixology, as well as the Smart Serve certification, if applicable. Our certification is accepted all across North and South America, as well as Europe and parts of Asia.

To prevent ‘wasting’ alcohol, and in order to comply with the provincial laws, we do not use real alcohol in our general training program, the replacement we use are special liquids that have no alcohol content.
*Toward the end of the workshop, when you have become more comfortable with bartending, and if the venue permits, we will mix some real drinks, provided that everyone is over the legal drinking age.

No bartending experience is needed to take our class. We will start off with the basics and then moves onto more advanced materials so that everybody understands the material from the beginning. Our program is designed specifically to train individuals who have no prior knowledge about bartending while at the same time help the more experienced students become better at bartending.

If you love having fun, and want to bartend instead of bar-spend, we definitely encourage you to take our training program. However, for liability issues, we will only train individuals who meet the provincial legal serving age requirement, so you have to be 18 years old minimum.

Of course! All our instructors are well aware of what employers look for in potential employees. Some are bar managers themselves! In addition, a portion of the class will be devoted to finding and getting a bartending job. On top of all that, we frequently receive requests for bartenders from everywhere in Ontario and Québec by individuals and establishments, and we forward these requests to our graduates.

We are very flexible. If you cannot make it to our scheduled classes, do contact us and let us know your availability. We have customized tutorials and one-on-one trainings available, ask us for details. To receive full refund upon cancellation of a class, you need to notify us 3 days before the class start date. If you let us know less than 3 days, we will not be able to refund, but you can attend another workshop at a later date.