Pool Bar Jim Is Always on Vacation
The Hilton Head bartender has been serving “the best frozen drink you’re ever going to get” for 22 years.
- story: Robert Simonson
- photo: Beau Kester
There Is Only One True Jim Gallagher
The Irish-born bartender of Molly’s Shebeen on how to cultivate regulars, pouring 12 barrels of Guinness a week and not becoming a bartender.
- story: Robert Simonson
- photo: Eric Medsker
Tom Riley Is the Definition of Old School
The Donohue’s bartender has been mixing Martinis for New York City regulars, including Drew Barrymore and Gay Talese, for 49 years.
- story: Robert Simonson
- photo: Eric Medsker
At the “21” Club, Tara Wright Is in Charge
She’s the first woman to hold the position of bartender at the historic boy’s club, but that’s not the only thing she’s modernized.
- story: Robert Simonson
- photo: Eric Medsker
Liz Pounds Taught Tulsa How to Drink
For half a century, the Oklahoma bartender has witnessed her town go from Prohibition to cocktail Renaissance—with a star-studded Hollywood pit stop along the way.
- story: Robert Simonson
- photo: Jeremy Charles
