VinePair

JUNE 6, 2025

Kate Gerwin, owner, Happy Accidents Bar , Albuquerque, N.M. While clarification is a valuable technique, it’s increasingly become the default across many bar programs, resulting in menus where nearly every cocktail is pre-batched. In the process, some of the craft and connection behind the bar experience can get lost.

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Chilled Magazine

MARCH 20, 2025

A Perfect Blend of Expertise and Innovation Shaker & Spoon, known for its handcrafted cocktails and deeply engaged community of cocktail lovers, joins ShakeStirs portfolio, which includes Cocktail Courier and Thirstie.

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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. In January of this year, Drink, a pioneering local bar, shuttered for good. And back with it was another name long associated with the Boston cocktail world: Jackson Cannon. [It]

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VinePair

DECEMBER 5, 2024

When Igor Hadzismajlovic, Jason Kosmas, and Dushan Zaric joined forces with the late Henry LaFargue, who passed in January, and then brought in the bar business acumen of BillGilroy, a new era of cocktail bars came into existence. Employees Only always thought of ourselves as an industry bar, and that was kind of the seed.

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VinePair

JULY 8, 2025

Asking a bartender to name the most influential craft cocktail bar of all time is a heavy question bordering on unfair. Asking them to name their “Mount Rushmore” of craft cocktail bars doesn’t lighten the load all that much, despite expanding the field from one to four. The bars don’t have to be currently active.

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Chilled Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

By 1806, the word “cocktail” appeared in print. The cocktail is very much an American invention,” Breaux said, adding that it was a cultural contribution that spread across the world — and peak cocktail culture both in the U.S. was in its disco area, and the high-volume bar concept was introduced.

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VinePair

JUNE 5, 2025

If it seems like every bar that garners international attention is found in one of those metropolises, it’s not too far from the truth. Reaching the rarefied air of a best bar worth traveling for or a must-visit stop on the guest-shift circuit requires a steady stream of international visitors to generate buzz.

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