A server's skill and a bartender’s pace will be judged at Bar Idols, a cocktail competition by the folks behind Greater Than Gin of Nao Spirits & Beverages. Regional rounds take place across seven cities, with the crowd as the jury, culminating in a grand finale in Goa. The Mumbai rounds will take place at Waikiki Bar in Andheri East, where the nine shortlisted spaces — Bandra Born, Perch Wine & Coffee Bar, Slink & Bardot, Supa San, Block 108 & Cocktail Bar, Hardeep Punjab The Walk, O Pedro, Papa’s and Permit & Co — will pour drinks for the patrons to judge on November 16.

Patrons applaud a bartender at a previous edition of the competition