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Featured Bartender Summer 2024: Steve Schenider

Bartender.com

He became one of the principal bartenders, then the bar manager, which as he says, “prepared me for my ultimate goal…being a bar owner.” From there he was recruited at Employees Only in NYC where Steve “found people that were doing exactly what I wanted to do.” In 2016 Steve opened Employees Only in Singapore. “I

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Featured Bartender August 2024: Luis Florez

Bartender.com

His enthusiasm for the business drove him to quickly climb the ranks, and within three years, he transitioned from food runner to Assistant Food and Beverage Manager. After five successful years at the Boston College Club, Luis ventured to Upstate New York, where he joined Wegmans, a renowned grocery store chain, as a bar manager.

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Mana for a Cause: Teremana Tequila Is Giving Back During the Holidays With Ezana ‘EZ’ Million

VinePair

Between Irish pubs and high-volume cocktail bars, Million honed his flavors as a barback, squeezing his own custom juices and lemonades, earning him the moniker “The Lemonade Man.” At his current bar, Million started slinging cocktails and, after just four months, went on to become bar manager.

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We Asked 25 Bartenders: What’s the Best Rum for Cocktails? (2024)

VinePair

“Hamilton Jamaican Pot Still Black Rum is a great rum for mixing cocktails. Fionna Gemzon, bar manager, None of the Above , St. Rob Krueger, bar manager, Smith & Mills Rockefeller Center , NYC “I love the storied history of rum and can geek out on it, so it’s difficult to pick just one. Volcanique.

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THE CHURCHILL BAR AND TERRACE LAUNCHES MARINE-INSPIRED OUTDOOR SPACE WITH GROUND-BREAKING, SUSTAINABLE COCKTAILS

Bar Magazine

To be served both outdoors and inside the bar, the menu is the latest chapter to team’s signature cocktail journey and a testament to collaboration, with 12 carefully crafted cocktails, all of which have been creatively developed with a specific emphasis on sustainability, a particular passion of Bar Manager Gaston Fusco and his team.

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10 Mocktails for 2024

Cheers

Mocktails — spirit-free sips, no-proof cocktails , nonalcoholic drinks — whatever you want to call them, have come a long way in recent years. Bars and restaurants are crafting these libations with care and creativity and in some cases developing no-alcohol versions of their signature cocktails. Mount with ice and shake.

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Chain Restaurant Cocktails: The Good, the Bad, and the Outrageously Boozy

VinePair

Chain Cocktails Hit Different Some bartenders have a soft spot for chain restaurants because they’ve had firsthand experience working in them. “I I worked in a Chili’s in high school,” says Sarah Morrissey, the bar manager of the recently reopened Le Veau d’Or on New York Upper East Side. “I

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