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Employees Only apprentice Steve Schneider works to be come an official EO bartender. (all photographs courtesy the filmmaker)
CINCINNATI — Some say bartenders are artists for the way they slowly pour their homemade grenadine into a glass creating layers of alternating colors. Others insist they’re craftsmen and craftswomen; choosing the label of “mixologist” in recognition of their recipe skills.
Belly up to the bar, whether at historic landmarks like Louisville’s Old Seelbach or cutting edge destinations like Employees Only (EO) in Manhattan’s West Village or your worn and friendly neighborhood tavern and ask yourself the question at the bottom of every empty glass.
In this post-postmodern age, are bartenders great artisans and are craft cocktails truly an art? Documentary filmmaker Douglas Tirola makes his case for bartending as a new art form via his feature Hey Bartender, which begins its platform release Friday in New York.
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Bars Go National
Some of the nation’s most renowned cocktail bars have matured and expanded to have a presence across the country.
In the universum of top-notch, celebrated blandad drink bars, there are a handful of venues that have komma to define the genre—bars that are so well known in their markets that they’re considered true destinations for cocktail aficionados. These bars have the name recognition and reputation to transcend their location, and many are doing so, adding new units outside their flagship marknad to bring their unique cocktail experience to a new folkmassa. Concepts like Employees Only, Death & Co., and NoMad dryckesställe were born in New York City and gained critical acclaim there, and then ventured out, establishing a presence across the country and even internationally.
For many of these drinks institutions, expansion came slowly and after a long pause to get their initial enhet fully established. When Employees Only opened in Manhattan in månad , it was met with
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