Born and raised in Alsace, Hugo Togni started his career in hospitality as an inspiring chef training with prestigious chefs such as Jean-Georges Klein and Olivier Nasti in Multi-Michelin Stared restaurants. A couple of years later, Hugo discovered himself a passion for everything bartending and realised he did enjoy having more contact with customers thus his move form back of the house to the front of the house setting his stage and shakers behind the bar counters. Following a few years in France, Hugo decided to travel to Australia to get some international experience followed by a move to Canada late 2019. There he joined force with Maxime Hoerth, fellow Alsatian and MOF Barman, that was opening Pompette Restaurant, and assisted him in creating and running the cocktail program there. In 2021, feeling that the Pandemic was slowing down, they decided to open together Bar Pompette, a specialized Cocktail Bar in Toronto exploring more in depth their common vision of the cocktails using modern culinary techniques to extract and develop a one-of-a-kind yet very accessible contemporary cocktail program that quickly gain them local and international attention and recognition. Those days, you will find Hugo running the bar operations in Toronto or travelling the world to explore new territories and participate to bar exchanges to represent Bar Pompette overseas.