Beyond the Glass

Qura Bar presents SALON DE QURA, launching on 16 March: a museum gallery of taste — a new cocktail experience that transforms the bar into a living museum, where flavour becomes colour, aroma becomes movement, and every cocktail is curated as a work of art.   

At the centre of this world is the Curator — Qura Bar’s spirited alchemist who interprets emotion, memory, and sensation through liquid form. The Curator draws inspiration from the Artist, whose palette of colour, form, and symbolism sets the creative tone. Guiding their journey is the Traveller, forever in search of encounters that linger long after the glass is empty.  

Together, these three characters form an unbroken narrative: a shared pursuit of beauty, meaning, and expression. Within the Salon, each sip becomes a collaboration, each texture a revelation; the experience of tasting becomes an intimate act of creation. Over time, the Artist, the Curator, and the Traveller reveal themselves not as individuals, but as reflections of one creative spirit moving through different moments of inspiration.  

Inspired by the quiet path of a curator crossing a museum floor, SALON DE QURA invites guests to explore eight original cocktails, each referencing a distinct artistic discipline — liturgy, martial arts, painting, film, music, invention, sculpture and beyond. Every drink is spiritforward yet impeccably balanced, shaped by craftsmanship, research, and imagination. Artistic philosophies are translated into cocktails with the same care one would give to a canvas, a film reel, or a bronze cast. IS