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We Asked 21 Bartenders: What’s the Best Vodka for Mixing Cocktails?

VinePair

Were still living in a vodka world. While tequilas rise in popularity grabs headlines and drives conversations, vodka remained the top-selling spirit in the U.S. The data may make the whiskey snob in your life roll their eyes, but it makes sense from a cocktail perspective. Which vodkas do they consider best for mixing drinks?

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We Asked 10 Bartenders: Which Bottle Should Disappear From Back Bars and Bar Carts Forever? (2024)

VinePair

No craft cocktail bar should ever use it. ” —Alex Jump, founder, Focus on Health “I’d love to see the end of artificially flavored vodkas. Especially in cocktail bars and lounges, as it diminishes the quality of the drinks. Plus, it just isn’t a great look.

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Meet the Winner and Finalists of VinePair’s Best New Bartender Competition

VinePair

“I find that I take that part of my childhood, combine it with cocktail and flavor theory, and put it all together.“ After honing her skill set at Vicia, Pedraza made the leap to her most recent position as bar manager of St. Louis’s speakeasy-style New Society, where experimentation and modern techniques take center stage.

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Cocktail Questions: What's Next for Cocktails?

Cocktails with Suderman

As a long-time reader of your newsletter, and someone who became a career bartender and bar manager after studying and learning from that newsletter, I’d like to ask for your perspective about the future of the craft cocktail movement. Cocktail maximalism is thriving.

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It’s Everywhere, It’s So Julia — Midori Is Brat

VinePair

“I think this made people look at Midori again, but this time in relation to the quality of shochu and all these whiskies that weren’t really a thing in the States before the craft cocktail movement.” “As As craft cocktails push the boundaries of what bars can do, bartenders have been able to use Midori in unprecedented ways.

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Raising the Bar: What It Takes To Succeed as a Bartender Today

VinePair

So, when management offered to recruit a few bar-curious servers to cover the vacant lunch shifts, I jumped at the opportunity to cut lemon and lime wedges all day in exchange for feeling like I was Tom Cruise in “Cocktail” for a few hours on a Tuesday afternoon. Ten or 15 years ago, dive bars were beer-and-a-shot spots. “At

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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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