VinePair

JUNE 6, 2025

Bartender of The Year – USBG Presents World Class Sponsored by Diageo “Overly complex cocktail builds just don’t fit the reality of a busy, high-volume NYC bar. I love thoughtful technique and creativity, but some modern cocktails are becoming unnecessarily complicated. Nic Wallace, 2025 U.S. Not the Manhattan.

Bartender

Imbibe Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Brother Cleve, the musician, DJ, and mixologist who was regarded as the godfather of the Boston cocktail revival, died suddenly in September 2022. For a long while, it looked like Eastern Standard—the stylish and influential high-volume bar and restaurant near Fenway Park that opened in 2005—might also be among those casualties.

Cocktail Culture

VinePair

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Excellent craft drinks, yes, but ones that were free-poured, doled out with haste, and in high volume. It was talking about how this is going to become a thing, and it was a couple months before we opened (the article was published on Sept. Of course, there was a really great underground scene of cocktail culture.

Bartender

VinePair

JULY 8, 2025

You can’t talk about the evolution of American cocktail culture without Trader Vic’s. They really introduced Americans to rum blends, house syrups, and a style of cocktail that influenced nearly every cocktail bar you see today. Angel’s Share, NYC: One of, if not the oldest of NYC’s cocktail bars.

Craft Cocktails

VinePair

JUNE 5, 2025

Then there are the cities that may have been long visited for reasons unrelated to cocktail culture, but which are now, at last, putting their creative or financial muscle to use behind the bar. Now, it’s making a play to become a hub for cocktail culture as well. Who wouldve thought?

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