VinePair

JANUARY 17, 2024

By the time Booker and Dax closed in 2016, I was the head bartender, and I spent the next year at the NoMad learning to make a lot of very good drinks very quickly. Dave Arnold and Don Lee then opened Existing Conditions in 2018, and I will eternally be grateful that they saw fit to bring me on as head bartender.

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VinePair

APRIL 25, 2024

Riffs now include unusual ingredients, infusions, and syrups that take the drink well beyond the sugary strawberry Margaritas of yesteryear. “I The mezcal in it is infused with an earthy fungus called huitlacoche, which is considered a delicacy in Mexico. It includes Sorel liqueur and Jamaican jerk bitters. “To

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With Rose Mary’s Croatian-Italian focus, that house-made infusion fits perfectly alongside imported bottles of slivovitz and plenty of customers who love it. The bitters, he says, play an important role. “I Garnish with a few drops of Angostura bitters. *To But what do you do when life sends you plums?

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VinePair

JANUARY 25, 2024

As the author of books on amaro , bitters , and a writer who frequently chronicles Italian drinking culture , I’ve had the chance to try countless bottles of amaro over the years and I’m always curious, and often skeptical, of a new release, especially one from Trader Joe’s. ”) on the blue neckband label.

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Cheers

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Queen in Miami’s Negroni riff Idol’s Eye, with N3 gin, Campari infused with strawberries and plum wine. Queen offers a riff on the Negroni called Idol’s Eye ($22), featuring the bold flavors of N3 gin, complemented by the sweetness of Campari infused with strawberries. The Spicy G&T ($19) combines pine-forward St.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In our Hudson Duster cocktail, I infuse the bourbon with Moroccan mint tea as the base of an Old Fashioned with Ceylon cinnamon syrup and Angostura. Andy May, head bartender, The Golden Swan, NYC “ Leopold Brothers Bottled In Bond Bourbon. Lolo McGrath, founder and general manager, Bitter Blossom , Evanston, Ill.

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Cheers

JANUARY 23, 2024

The range of use is great — from sweet, creamy cheese foam garnishing a cocktail to hard cheese grated on top or even infused within spirits,” the report says. For example, Kimpton Shinjuku Tokyo is offering a Martini that features vodka infused with Japanese salmon jerky.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The ability to manage the delicate interplay between spirit, sweet, sour, bitter, and dilution separates great bartenders and mixologists from amateurs. Head bartender Reylock outlines how the staff has learned to keep asking questions and keep pursuing the next delicious cocktail: “How can we make a Dirty Martini with no olive brine?

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Bar Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Each of the 16 creations draws inspiration from diverse eras, countries, cultures, and customs, all concocted using house-made picklings, sherbets, bitters and infused liqueurs that transcend the ordinary. The presentation of the menu is as much a spectacle as the cocktails themselves.

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VinePair

MAY 13, 2024

They are also the new East Village tastemakers shifting the cocktail bar scene’s vibe to something that infuses modern technique and skill with the casual, punk-rock ethos of the East Village dives of yore — albeit with less graffiti in the bathrooms. Each of these bars is a year old or less. This shift may look surprising on the surface.

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VinePair

AUGUST 28, 2024

The New York-based food scientist, bartender, and technologist pioneered techniques like centrifuge clarification, force carbonation, rapid infusion, liquid nitrogen chilling, and nitro-muddling, just to name a few. I’m biased, of course, because I was head bartender at both bars.

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Gabriel Morales, bar manager, Sexy Fish , Miami “I like to use Lost Explorer Espadín Mezcal infused with cilantro and finished with fresh lime juice, house-made celery, and serrano syrups. Bottino pairs this mezcal with Dr. Ulrich red vermouth and bitter aperitivo to create the very popular smoky Negroni on our cocktail list.”

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Bar Magazine

MARCH 8, 2024

When Jonatan Bou Guardiola, our Head Bartender, the team and myself, were brainstorming ideas, I looked down at one of our tables and saw my reflection, which is what ultimately inspired the menu. We take great pride in using our own house-made picklings, sherbets, bitters and infused liqueurs in each of the cocktails.

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VinePair

JULY 16, 2024

George’s Valley Gin Empirical Spirits Doritos Nacho Cheese Banhez Destilados de Fruta BroVo Spirits Uncharted Rhapsody American Forest Liqueur Bitter Journey Bing Zhou Mijenta Cristalino Avallen Calvados “The best newly released spirit we’ve added to our bar is Empress 1908 Elderflower Rose Gin. Evan Flynn, head bartender, Death and Co.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 5, 2023

explicitly defining the term as a “a stimulating liquor composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters.” There, head bartender Ryan Chetiyawardana helped normalize the concept of a cocktail lab. At Nipperkin in Mayfair, bartender Giuseppe Destefano is heading up one of the most exciting new drinks programs anywhere.

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Chilled Magazine

MARCH 4, 2025

I began my career there as a bartender and quickly advanced to Head Bartender, ultimately becoming the Bar Director overseeing ART SoHo, Foxtail, and Lindens. For the past six years, I have had the privilege of working at Arlo Soho under the Renwick Hospitality Group.

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 12, 2025

The person responsible for mixing the first Gibson recipe is up for debate, but most historians agree that someone created this bitters-free Martini variation at a San Francisco members club in 1898. Bartenders incorporate herbal infusions or housemade mignonettes, opt for gin or vodka bases, and experiment with proportions.

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Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Starting with 15 gins, Valerie now stocks north of 100 that make their way into house Gin & Tonics , bottled freezer door Martinis , and seasonal originals like Lulu’s Back in Town (Sipsmith overproof gin, Condesa prickly pear and orange blossom gin, Suze, poblano, lime cordial, pimento bitters). It just soars.

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VinePair

JANUARY 15, 2025

Culch Vodka is mixed with a vermouth blend, a chicken bouillon blend, caperberry brine, and orange bitters. At Brooklyns Bitter Monk head bartender Ryan Garrison garnishes his Fauna & Flora Martini with a side glass of air-fried tarragon leaves. A pickled scallion bulb and ginger ribbon serve as garnish.

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Cheers

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

For instance, Gin & Juice, the RTD line of ready-to-drink cocktails from Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre, are available Chicago-based Puttshack , a tech-infused mini-golf concept, and the movie house chain AMC Theatres. Menus across the country are infusing their drinks with functional mushrooms. Pittsburgh restaurant Scratch & Co.

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