Leo Robitschek | Bar Director, The NoMad
NoMad bar director Leo Robitschek is as much a perfectionist as he is an innovator. After joining the team at Eleven Madison Park a little over a decade ago—and being…
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NoMad bar director Leo Robitschek is as much a perfectionist as he is an innovator. After joining the team at Eleven Madison Park a little over a decade ago—and being…
Fresh off the heels of a stint at New York’s Experimental Cocktail Club, bartender Xavier Herit opened his own concept, Wallflower, in 2013. Though he had designed the small, 45-seat…
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Though he didn’t anticipate a career in wine, it’s no surprise that John Paterson wound up in the industry. His first job was working at his parents’ Alabama restaurant, and…
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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…