Tag: What I’m Drinking Now
Qadeem Hassan and the Ring My Bell
by: Melissa Dowling
Qadeem Hassan is the mixologist/operating partner at Session Cocktails, with locations in Tuscaloosa and Auburn, AL. The Ring My Bell cocktail was inspired by a trip …
Erin Davey and the Kusama Full Happiness
by: Melissa Dowling
Erin Davey is the corporate beverage manager at New York-based TAO Group Hospitality. The Kusama Full Happiness cocktail at Sake No Hana, our modern Japanese restaurant …
Danielle Harris and the Hand Grenade
by: Melissa Dowling
Danielle Harris is head bartender at Nanbu Noodle Bar in Santa Rosa Beach, FL. Here in the South, Mardi Gras is almost as anticipated as Christmas; it’s …
Rohit Gawali and The Raksha
by: Melissa Dowling
Mixologist Rohit Gawali, originally from Nagpur in India, recently created cocktails for Shosha in Sunnyvale, CA. Being from India, mixology and bartending isn’t a traditional career path that …
Simone Bailey and The French 75
by: Melissa Dowling
Simone Bailey is operating bar manager at Kokomo in Brooklyn, NY. I’ve been quite partial to a well balanced French 75 lately. For a long time …
Nicholas Wyatt and the Sips of Paradise
by: Melissa Dowling
Nicholas Wyatt is general manager of Ravello Ristorante, an Amalfi Coast-inspired restaurant in Montgomery, AL. Drawing inspiration from the classic Negroni Sbagliato that has made a …
Kira Collings and the Tijuana Handshake
by: Melissa Dowling
Kira Collings is bar manager of Hearth and Hill in Park City, UT. Traveling has always been a passion of mine. For my first solo adventure, …
Ilya Romanov and the Small Talk
by: Melissa Dowling
Ilya Romanov is the beverage manager at Iris, a Japanese-inspired cocktail bar in San Francisco. Every cocktail idea we bring to light and find the courage …
Kira Webster and the Quiet Night Thought
by: Melissa Dowling
Kira Webster is the beverage director at Indo, a Japanese-Southeast Asian restaurant in St. Louis. I’m currently drinking Quiet Night Thought, a sparkling sake cocktail I …
Jeff Rogers and the Original House Martini
by: Melissa Dowling
Jeff Rogers is the beverage director for Jester Concepts in Minneapolis. Our teams have tried, tested and played with so many different spirits and cocktail formulas …
