6.30 ask for the recipe for taro bread. why tf do we not have prohibition era cocktails on the menu at work. there are literally tunnels under our building. it was built in 1902. 7.7 hang my license plates in my eventual bar. sportstown kinda walls. this is the neighborhood bar. chinese food in fine…
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I wrote this drink on a Friday night during service. Served it as Drink Of The Day on Saturday 6/28. Had some mangos that needed to be used. Decided to try my hand at cheong. Cut up 2 red mangos, 1 golden mango, and one small lime, then added them to a kitchen container. Put…
Read MoreAspirations
6.30 I want to have a drink on the Michelin guide. I want to write a cookbook of all of my favorite foods from my 30s. i.e taro bread. just start asking places how they make things so i can have them in my personal stash
Read MoreNotable Drinks I Have Had
A place for celebrating bars and bartenders I love. Field Trip – Leyenda This drink changed me. I discovered it long before I was a bartender. For my 25th birthday, my best friend and I took a trip to New York. We stayed on Smith and Schermerhorn in Brooklyn. Not only did we find Luanne’s…
Read MoreOne Man’s Trash
I installed my first piece of public art this month. It feels like a real quantifiable achievement to be able to show to everyone who asked why I decided to go to art school and what I was going to do with it. The piece is called One Man’s Trash, and it responds to a…
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I will be using this post continuously as a public digital legal pad list of flavor combination and drink spec ideas. Please leave a reply if you have any ideas! I love to find new combinations of flavors and tasting notes. Dear Diary… 5.28 I am loving perfume note charts as vision boards for drinks.…
Read MoreLisa’s Garden
True Life: I am obsessed with Italicus. I am well aware that every drink I have posted here so far contains it. This is called Lisa’s garden because the lemon thyme came from the garden of my partner’s mother whose name is Lisa. She has a sweet garden! If nobody likes egg white cocktails I…
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The customers in Meridian seem to go hard for Idaho. They like local stuff. I came up with this riff based on a Bee’s Knees. It uses Idaho gin and local honey. 1.5oz Red Fern Gin 0.5oz Italicus 1oz lemon juice 1oz honey syrup (1:1) egg white lemon twist honeycomb Add wet ingredients to a…
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This is a riff on the Giny Germain, a cocktail that was created by bartender Antoine Goldschmid of Poulette Restaurant. I learned about it from The Educated Barfly. 1.5oz Hendrick’s Gin 0.75oz St. Germain 0.75oz Italicus 1oz lemon juice 0.5oz simple syrup (1:1) egg white 3 cucumber slices Peychaud’s bitters Add all ingredients to a shaker. Muddle cucumber.…
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I want people to want to come into the bar not just for the food. When asking a bartender for something off-menu, it can be difficult to articulate what you like and don’t like. I think it is much easier to choose if you have a list. I want people to be able to try…
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