Abigail Gullo | Head Bartender, Compère Lapin
Though she moved to New Orleans just five years ago, Abigail Gullo was quick to become an influential voice within the city’s historic cocktail culture, first at SoBou and now…
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Though she moved to New Orleans just five years ago, Abigail Gullo was quick to become an influential voice within the city’s historic cocktail culture, first at SoBou and now…
There is something perpetually boyish about bartender Toby Cecchini. It might have something to do with the curling thatch of hair that flops over his forehead. Or his round, wire…
As a student of English and religion at Boston University, Joaquín Simó, for a time, had no intention of bartending at all. Rather, he was a regular at Boston’s White…
It’s been a big year for Will Elliott, Bar Director at Brooklyn’s famed absinthe and oyster den, Maison Premiere. Less than a month after the team took home the James Beard…
“Patience and fortitude conquer all things—duh,” says Giuseppe González. Unclear is whether González, the always frank and occasionally cantankerous bartender behind New York’s Suffolk Arms, is talking about the virtues…
Raised in Paris and the Loire Valley, importer Camille Rivière began compiling her small portfolio of small, mostly French, natural producers in 2012, but her eagerness to learn about wine…
Within the insular boundaries of the cocktail world, Don Lee is a legend. As a catch-all "Director of Product Development and Education"—per his business card—he can often be found at home perfecting…
Behind the counter at Genuine Liquorette, a subterranean bodega-inspired cocktail bar by AvroKO in Manhattan’s Little Italy, Eben Freeman stands beside his latest invention, the Cha-Chunker—a repurposed hand-press leather riveting machine…
There are few people, if any, more synonymous with San Francisco's wine scene than Shelley Lindgren. The co-owner and wine director of two of the city's most iconic Italian restaurants—A16…
"There's really no connection between tiki, rum and the fez," explains Martin Cate of his epic headpiece. "People like tiki and people like secret societies," he says referring to the Shriners,…