Bartender is een Japanse animeserie van de zender Fuji TV. De serie ging in première op 15 oktober 2006.
De geweldige barman, Sasakura Ryuu, maakt de beste cocktails die iemand ooit heeft geproefd. Opzoek naar zijn 'glas van God', komen er allemaal verschillende mensen zijn bar binnen met al hun eigen problemen.
Kurushima Miwa comes to Eden Hall to ask Ryuu to find her "Menu of the Heart." As a child, she broke a bottle of alcohol intended to mend the rift between her father and Kurushima Taizou, her grandfather. The two had been fighting over modernizing the family hotel. Shortly after this accident, Miwa's parents were killed in a car crash. Ryuu extrapolates that the beverage was Suntory's Kakubin (referred to in the show as "Kaku"), a beverage at the crossroad of old and new Japan. The featured cocktail is the Nikolaschka.