Built by one person.
Fuelled by good drinks.

I wanted to find bars that served the drinks I was actually interested in – not just the nearest place with a cocktail menu. Somewhere pouring a proper Oaxacan Old Fashioned, or a bar with a tequila list that goes deeper than Patrón. That's it. That was the whole idea.

The problem was, nothing like that really existed. There were review sites, sure, but none of them let you search by spirit, browse by neighbourhood, or follow a trail of agave bars across the city. So I built it.

Octivaro started as a side project and grew into something I'm genuinely proud of – a curated platform for discovering cocktail bars, agave spirits, and the places that serve them well.

Octivaro is a cocktail bar discovery app – a PWA you can install straight from your browser, no app store needed.

Explore a searchable directory of bars, filterable by spirit, style, and neighbourhood. Browse the map to find what's nearby or plan a night out. Dive into nearly a hundred curated guides – from Tube Line Crawls and Neighbourhood Crawls to Brand Trails that follow specific spirits across the city.

Right now, the focus is on London, with early groundwork in Hull, Leeds, and York. More cities will follow – the database is growing all the time.

There's no team behind Octivaro. No investors, no board, no growth hackers. It's a solo project – designed, built, and maintained by one person who'd rather be researching mezcal producers than writing an About Us page.

Every bar listing is reviewed. Every guide is hand-curated. Every pixel has been argued over by one person (with themselves, mostly). That's the trade-off with a passion project: it's slower, but it's considered.

If you spot something that's wrong, or you know a bar that deserves to be on here, I'd love to hear from you.