VinePair
JUNE 6, 2025
I’ve used it in everything from Dirty Martinis to clarified tomato highballs. 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 get it; coming from a high-volume background, I understand the need for efficiency.
VinePair
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
After conquering low-lift highballs and easy equal-parts concoctions, most aspiring bartenders are eager to step into the big leagues and attempt more intricate cocktails. The techniques become more technical, certain ingredients are less willing to play well with others, and the ever-ominous threat of over-dilution lurks in the shadows.
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VinePair
MARCH 19, 2024
Their efforts produced a space that can be described as an upscale dive bar: an of-the-moment concept that’s meant to be a step above a sticky-floored dive offering beers and stale pretzels but a notch below a high-volume joint slinging highfalutin $20 cocktails. You can’t start it. Only your guests can.
VinePair
MARCH 13, 2024
Also on offer may be a frozen cocktail or two, draft cocktails, a fat-washed cocktail, a clarified milk punch, a Boilermaker, a fancified whiskey highball, something with shochu, and a spritz. And also people are realizing that at those high-end cocktail bars, those cocktails are very, very expensive and the margins are very tight.
VinePair
JUNE 26, 2024
Many bars and restaurants are attempting to do ‘high volume’ without any of the training, systems, infrastructure etc. In a follow-up story, he added: “This is not an isolated problem. needed to accomplish said goal.”
Imbibe Magazine
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Be sure to head to the backroom record store and flip through the albums with a Japanese whisky Manhattan in hand, or explore the bar while enjoying your highball and the state-of-the-art sound system by Uncanned Music. But the energy is fun, the drinks served quickly, and once you find a seat and make new friends, you won’t want to leave.
VinePair
APRIL 14, 2025
But in high-volume sports bars and dives where the cocktail menu doesnt stretch beyond two- to three-ingredient highballs, many bartenders resort to free pouring (with a speed pourer attached to a bottle) to maximize efficiency. That isnt to say that theyre just winging measurements.
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