About Iryna Mashykhina, Chef-Bartender at Boutiquebar BIANCORO
I am 39 years old, I was born on March, 22nd 1974 in Smela town, Cherkassy district, Ukraine.
At school wanted to be an actress, a stuardess, a pilot… I ended up as the student of Kiev’s Hotel management College in 1991, Public Catering Department. I got my first job as waitress in 1993 in Casino Club First (Intourist Hotel – these days – President Hotel Kievskiy). From that time I understood for myself – I like serving people. To serve people! Not to be their servant! Any way I do prefer the verb – “to take care of guest”. It was bar there, I had started to help bartenders, and fell in love with it. I had great teacher mentors like John Siao, Peter Norton, Steve Kelly who inspired me to become a bartender at first place.
Than I had a professional break – I studied at Westminster College in States, I tried myself in advertisement business. But I have always missed bar, so in 1999, I went back to bar – and since then — I am “naturally born bartender” and I am proud of it!. Or someone can call me barista. Which is also right – “barista” is a bartender in Italian.
