Bartender / bar director
Chris Enns
- Discipline
- Bartender / bar director
i. Biography
The contemporary cocktail program works by reference and control: a drink can carry memory, theatre, and ingredient logic without losing its job as a well-made serve. As Beverage Manager at PEYA, Chris Enns builds in that register, using Golden Age references alongside curry bitters, hibiscus, a Negroni gummy, and a zero-proof flight. The same technical fluency carries into his work as a mixologist at The Lobby Lounge at Fairmont Pacific Rim in Vancouver, a setting where polish, timing, and guest reading are part of the craft.
Coming Up
Hotel bar work demands consistency under close scrutiny: classics have to land cleanly, service has to read the room, and refinement cannot slow the exchange. From 2018, Chris Enns worked as mixologist at The Lobby Lounge at Fairmont Pacific Rim in Vancouver, where the craft depended on precision, restraint, and the ability to make a composed drink feel easy in a high-finish room. That chapter set up a working style built around atmosphere as much as formula. In Enns’s practice, the glass, garnish, bitter edge, floral lift, and timing of the serve all function as parts of the same build, shaping not only flavor but the temperature of the room.
Where They Are Now
Narrative cocktail work has to keep its structure visible beneath the references. At PEYA, Beverage Manager Chris Enns sends “the Elephant and the Rooster” between Delhi, Paris, and Vancouver, rerouting Golden Age classics through curry bitters and hibiscus, nodding to Dorothy Stratten, and extending the program with a Negroni gummy and a zero-proof flight. The style relies on established architecture and controlled deviation. Golden Age references give the drinks their frame; spice, fruit, bitterness, color, and texture move them off the expected line. Curry bitters shift a familiar profile toward warmth; hibiscus brings tart depth; a Negroni gummy turns a canonical flavor into a tactile element. The zero-proof flight belongs to the same program logic rather than sitting outside it: considered, occasion-worthy, and built for the full range of guests at the bar. The PEYA program treats movement as a working method: between cities, eras, and moods; between serious structure and playful delivery; between bar lineage and present service needs.
Career - Mixologist — The Lobby Lounge at Fairmont Pacific Rim, Vancouver (from 2018)
Honors
Chris's honors include Bartender of the Year, Eighth place, global finals, Master of the Manhattan, and Barate Kid speed-bartending tournament.
FAQ What is Chris Enns's current role? As of 2026, Chris Enns is Beverage Manager at PEYA. Where did Chris Enns work before? Chris Enns's earlier career included The Lobby Lounge at Fairmont Pacific Rim. What recognition has Chris Enns received? Bartender of the Year (2018).
