Cocktail trends come in waves. During the early 1990s, it was the Cocktail Nation era, when there were more variations on basic martinis than Cher’s career comebacks. Then “Sex and the City”-style concoctions took over, and suddenly everyone seemed to be dressing like Carrie, Miranda and the gang, and sipping cosmopolitans and lemon drops.
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Christopher “Stephon” Gorby is training for the world record.
Gorby, 29, a mixologist at Clearwater’s Dirty Martini Lounge, will attempt to break the word record for fastest bartender today.
Brandi Chester, 22, has worked at two Chili’s locations. She’s been tending bar at the Lake Wales location for 1 1/2 years and has worked a total of 3 1/2 years at Chili’s.
When someone over the age of sixty asks for a martini, they want gin. Everyone else, probably wants vodka. If the individual in question is over eighty, or a romantic sentimentalist, they may also want vermouth. Everyone else, is particular about taste, and does not.
Why did you decide to get into bartending? I love the people, I love making drinks, I love entertaining people! I love everything about it!
Rick Hoover was was also interviewed on The Bartenders Show in 2006. The show was show # 12
A Greek bartender has taken out the inaugural Diageo Reserve Brands World Class Bartender of the Year competition held in London last week (Jul 14-16).
Aristotelis Papadopoulos beat 17 other finalists, including Australia’s Adi Ruiz from Sweatshop in Melbourne to claim the top prize.
One question that I’m often asked while behind the bar is if I’m standing on something because bartenders seem to be so much taller than the customers.
Might America’s most inspired bartender be mixing drinks at Myth? But the summery cocktail he and his wife, Joanna, concocted for a contest in Omaha last week puts him in the running for the Bombay Sapphire and GQ magazine national “Inspired Bartender Search.”
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