Like some of London’s other veteran bar talents, Matthias Ingelmann is a certified hustler — but not one of those Instagram types who promise they’ve got the trick to growing your following. Ingelmann is the impressive kind, who keeps his head down and just gets stuff done.
While managing the bars at Kol and its mezcaleria in 2021, he launched his own fig leaf liqueur brand, Parafante, with former colleague and bartender Graziano Madeo. A year later, he launched verjus importer IV Drinks with Matt Varona, the beverage manager of MJMK (who own Kol), to bring London’s bars and restaurants a verjus that didn’t cost the earth.
