Winnipeg's river restaurant Raw Almond has a new cocktail-tasting bar.

It's a new addition to the river restaurant that features the mixology of local bar tenders from around the city.

Cocktail-tasting happens two times each evening.

"We wanted to create a different environment than just our tasting menu and we thought with the addition of the cocktail tasting bar, that it just brings more people to the tent. It gives more people an opportunity to experience what we're doing," said co-founder Mandel Hitzer.

Raw Almond is open for 21 days.

Around 9 a.m. each morning, 24 tickets for the cocktail bar go on sale.