How One Bartender Puts His Briny Skills to Use in Cocktails
Until recently, it was almost unheard of for bartenders to cross the line into the kitchen, or for kitchen staff to ask questions about cocktail development. The locavore and Slow Food movements, combined with an increasing interest in wasting less and using more, has seen old barriers vanish. Read More…
The Report from This Fall’s Collective Bartender Symposium
Sustainability was the key focus of this year’s 2017 Edible Bartender Symposium, held in October. Edible and Woodford Reserve invited 60 bartenders from around New York to the Institute for Culinary Education (ICE) at Brookfield Place in lower Manhattan for an evening of eating, drinking and workshopping. Read More…
Take Beer Cocktails to New Heights This Fall with These Beertender Tips
At the Good Nature Farm Brewery and Taproom in Hamilton, New York, they call their bartenders “beertenders.” Read More…
Tipping the Bar: How to Add Seasonal Quick Pickles to Your Cocktails
Pickles don’t have to be intimidating, time consuming or made only for hamburgers. Quick pickling can raise your garnish game, impress your patrons and reveal a new spectrum of cocktail-refining flavors. Read More…
This Garnet Spritz Can Show You That Not All Gins Are Alike
The best warm weather memories center around spending time with family, sticky ripe sliced fruits at the center of the picnic table. As we get older, boozy refreshments become the seasonal must-have, so what could be better than combining nostalgia, tangy citrus and craft spirits? Read More…
Woodford Reserve Celebrates Charlie Trotter’s Legacy with Pairing and Sharing Program in Chicago
There’s nothing we enjoy chronicling more at Edible Chicago than food and drink makers getting together to do good for the world. In that spirit, chef Charlie Trotter, a James Beard Foundation Humanitarian Award-winning chef, launched hundreds of culinary careers at his Chicago restaurant and inspired chefs across the globe with his innovative approach to cuisine. Read More…
Woodford Reserve Celebrates Charlie Trotter’s Legacy with Pairing and Sharing Program
There’s nothing we enjoy chronicling more at Edible Manhattan than food and drink makers getting together to do good for the world. In that spirit, chef Charlie Trotter, a James Beard Foundation Humanitarian Award-winning chef, launched hundreds of culinary careers at his Chicago restaurant and inspired chefs across the globe with his innovative approach to cuisine. Read More…
5 Refreshing Coffee Cocktails That Will Perk You Up
The Espresso Martini was developed in the U.K. by bartender Dick Bradsell back in the vodka-soaked ’80s—something that could get you drunk, but wake you up at the same time. It’s a format that’s been played with quite a bit over the years, in drinks like the Negroni Coffee Swizzle at Dante that features mezcal and cold brew, and right now there are a few brand-new ones on menus that you should definitely check out. Here, the five coffee cocktails you’ll want to sip this summer. Read More…
6 Tips for Taking Better Cocktail Pictures
The perfect cocktail shot often proves elusive. There’s no standard angle—unlike the way we all take pictures of our plates from above—and lighting is challenging in dimly lit bars. How can you do better so that your Instagram isn’t littered with dark pictures where no one can tell what’s going on? We asked a couple of our favorite photographers for their tips. Read More…
The Shake Down Pop-Ups Mix Hip-Hop and Craft Cocktails
It’s not easy to find good cocktails and a good party happening at the same time, in the same place. We almost understand this to be inevitable: If you’re dancing, you’re probably drinking Modelo; if you’re drinking a Penicillin variation, you’re not dancing. But these worlds don’t have to be mutually exclusive. The Shake Down, from bartenders Jairo Taveras and Robert Nieves, has started the work of merging them. Read More…
Bartender Ryan Herzog Makes a Mean Martinez
“I’m kind of weird,” says Ryan Herzog over drinks at Prospect Heights bar Sweet Polly, where he works three shifts a week. Whereas most bartenders start their careers making drinks and then go on to work for liquor brands, he only got behind the bar for the first time three years ago. “I was working for brands first, but being surrounded by a bunch of friends who are really creative and doing awesome things, that inspired me to get behind the bar,” he says. Read More…
Meet the Bartender: Cameron Holmes of Bar LunÀtico Wants to Talk Spirits With You
As we start to get ready for Good Spirits—happening March 2 at Pier A Harbor House—we’re checking in with some of our favorite bartenders from around the city. Today, we meet Cameron Holmes of Bed-Stuy’s cozy haunt Bar LunÀtico, a place where you can work on your laptop with a cup of coffee, get brunch during the week and check out live music every night. Read More…
Meet the Bartender: Lynnette Marrero Is a Rum Girl
As we start to get ready for Good Spirits—happening March 2 at Pier A Harbor House—we’re checking in with some of our favorite bartenders from around the city. Here we meet Lynnette Marrero, who got her start alongside the legendary Julie Reiner at Flatiron Lounge and co-founded the Speed Rack competition for female bartenders. As the beverage director at Williamsburg’s Llama Inn, she works a lot with the Peruvian spirit pisco these days. We asked her about inspiration and what she likes to drink. Read More…
A Dinner Menu Inspired by a Whiskey Flavor Wheel
For their final tasting event before the Bartender Symposium at the Culinary Institute of America, Woodford Reserve hosted a group of top New York bartenders for a three-course dinner and cocktail pairing at Lexington Brass in Midtown. Read More…
Woodford Reserve 3 Ways, on the Plate and in the Glass
Following up on their October 27 tasting event at Sons of Essex, Woodford Reserve held their second of three such dinners on November 7 at the Jue Lan Club in Flatiron. Read More…
3 Courses, 3 Whiskeys: An Evening of Woodford Reserve Pairings
A small cadre of New York’s top-shelf bartenders and beverage directors came together for an exclusive Woodford Reserve tasting event at Sons of Essex on October 27. Read More…
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In late 2016, Edible partnered with Woodford Reserve to host a series of tasting events with New York’s top-shelf bartenders and beverage directors, culminating with a bartender symposium at the Culinary Institute of America. Over the course of two months Edible and Woodford Reserve hosted three tasting events, got tips on bringing the bar into the kitchen and more. Read More…