David Toby and the Cactus Jack
David Toby is the beverage director of Jack Allen’s Kitchen in Austin, TX. It’s already getting hot here in Texas, and when the summer starts kicking, …
Ian Lowther and the Espresso… NBD
Ian Lowther is the beverage director of Red Cow in Minneapolis. Add my name to the list of bartenders who are obsessed with Mezcal. My favorite …
Megan Barnes and Rkatsiteli orange wine
Megan Barnes is the beverage director of Espita Mezcaleria in Washington, DC. Typically, when I am not drinking copitas full of mezcal, I’m drinking whatever unique wines …
Xavier Herit and The Espresso Martini
Xavier Herit is the beverage manager at NoMo Kitchen at the NoMo hotel in New York The Espresso Martini is a delicious combination of high-quality ingredients, …
Nicolas Torres and the Good Drink Hinky Dink
Nicolas Torres is the bar director at Lazy Bear in San Francisco. I am always striving to create seasonally driven, original cocktails, but from time to …
Jessica Lambert and the Coconut Negroni
Jessica Lambert is the head bartender of Vol. 39 and Boleo in Chicago. I came up with the idea to make a coconut fat-washed, pisco Negroni after …
Brandy Cross And The Rum Old Fashioned
Brandy Cross is lead bartender at Easy Bistro & Bar in Chattanooga, TN. Lately, I’ve been trying to make more cocktails at home. I love making a …
Nicole Galati and The Tokyo Mule
Nicole Galati is event and marketing manager at Yamashiro Hollywood. The first time I ever had a traditional Moscow Mule was five years ago here at …
James Lombardino and The Sbagliato
James Lombardino is head bartender at Wallflower in New York. I’m currently/constantly drinking Sbagliatos. This drink was created when a bartender in Italy was making a Negroni …
Kal Huettl and The Sazerac
Kal Huettl is a mixologist at Chicago restaurant Tortoise Club. “What I’m drinking now, and probably for the foreseeable future, is a Sazerac. This was one of the …
