VinePair

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Genesis Cruz, head bartender, Bar Belly , NYC “It could be due to the service industry-heavy clientele at our bar, but lately, we’ve been serving a lot of aromatized and fortified wine shots. Our go-to is a 50/50 of rum and amaro. We call it either the Rum House shot or S&M.”

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Depth and Complexity In London’s cocktail world, fruit distillates in general are “mega trendy,” according to Alex Kratena, former head bartender at Artesian and the co-founder of both Tayēr + Elementary and Muyu liqueurs. Credit: Swizzle Rum Bar & Drinkery That said, less is often more, he notes. more aggressively.”

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Bar Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Lady Bee, which promotes sustainability and the use of local ingredients in its cocktails, won the Campari One To Watch Award 2023 and ranked No.52 Julie Reiner, owner of world renowned cocktail bars Milady’s, Clover Club, and Leyenda, and Izzy Tulloch, Milady’s head bartender, bring their cocktail stylings to EDITION.

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VinePair

JULY 24, 2024

Rather than celebrate individual Pacific Island culture and heritage, these bars created tiki culture — an amalgam of reality and fantasy that promotes outlandish, and often offensive, stereotypes. Every drink they put on a menu needs to take up that space for a reason, and the considerations are myriad.

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VinePair

MAY 13, 2024

I don’t want to take away from the damage the pandemic caused, because it took a lot away from us,” says Paradise Lost’s head bartender, Kitty Bernardo. If you’re looking for a new spot with bartenders clad in suspenders and furrowed brows, look elsewhere. But it was like any disaster. An erupted volcano creates a new path.

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VinePair

MAY 30, 2025

At its core, the Daiquiri is a simple mix of rum , lime, and sugar, but its also a litmus test for how well a bartender knows how to balance cocktails. Built with white rum, lime juice, simple syrup, yellow Chartreuse, and soda, the drink is traditionally served over ice, making it an herbaceous, sessionable take on the original.

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