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

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and cultivating a generation of well-trained bartenders. The structure that these systems provided also helped shape his career as a consultant for bars and liquor brands. Credit: Adam Reiner “Every cocktail at TGI Fridays is too sweet,” says Izzy Tulloch, the head bartender at Milady’s in New York’s SoHo neighborhood.

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Do Empirical Spirits Serve Any Purpose Beyond Fueling Viral Headlines?

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Kinsman wrote that the spirit was a “smooth, warm, vegetal liquor that is simultaneously familiar and elusive, and endlessly sippable,” while noting it was not ideal for cocktails. The centerpiece of this virality was Empirical’s latest spirit, a collaboration with Doritos, distilled from real nacho cheese chips.