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ELEVEN MADISON PARK
11 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010 (view map)
T: 212.889.0905 (make a reservation)
What people don’t know is that the bar program is top notch. They are making not only what is on the menu, but they custom craft drinks.
Flatiron
New American
RESTAURANTS - NEW YORK, NY
CONVIVIO
Owner Chris Cannon has a great wine program. If you want a great bottle of wine for $5o, you can get it at any of his places even though they’re high end.
Tudor City
Italian
DIFFORDS GUIDE
It’s indexed by spirit, cocktail, rating of cocktail, and includes pictures of every single cocktail. Everything is cross-referenced by ingredient and shows how to use the ingredients, what to put with it, and the garnishing.
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BOOKS
FOOD AND WINE COCKTAILS 2010
It’s a small book, usually on newsstands, it has great pictures and it shows what is going on around the country. It’s a good book to have on hand.
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THE CRAFT OF THE COCKTAIL
It’s a must have.
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Author: Dale DeGroff
THE SAVOY
It’s a classic, old school cocktail book that everyone kind of pulled recipes out of over the last five years, the old martini-type cocktails, pre-prohibition stuff.
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Author: Harry Craddock
MASTER SOMMELIER & MIXOLOGIST
FRED DEXHEIMER
September 23, 2010
They are serious about spirits, serious about cocktails, and serious about wine. They are total rough and tumble guys and bohemian in a certain way, but the quality of the food, the atmosphere, and the service is incredible.
Carroll Gardens
New American
They are serious about spirits, serious about cocktails, and serious about wine. They are total rough and tumble guys and bohemian in a certain way, but the quality of the food, the atmosphere, and the service is incredible.
Carroll Gardens
American/ German
They are serious about spirits, serious about cocktails, and serious about wine. They are total rough and tumble guys and bohemian in a certain way, but the quality of the food, the atmosphere, and the service is incredible.
Lower East Side
Italian
Owner Chris Cannon has a great wine program. If you want a great bottle of wine for $5o, you can get it at any of his places even though they’re high end.
Midtown
Italian
11 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022 (view map)
T: 212.308.1099 (make a reservation)
Owner Chris Cannon has a great wine program. If you want a great bottle of wine for $5o, you can get it at any of his places even though they’re high end.
Midtown
New American
RESTAURANTS - BROOKLYN, NY
They have a great wine, beer and cocktail program. They also have something called the Ten O’Clock Burger. Every night at ten o’clock they offer 24 burgers. It’s a rockin’ burger.
Buckhead
American
RESTAURANTS - ATLANTA, GA
PROOF
The sommelier, Sebastian Zutant, has put together a great program. It has cool esoteric wine and if you’re a serious roller and want to spend some money, they have that too. The food is also great.
Penn Quarter
New American/ Wine Bar
RESTAURANTS - WASHINGTON, DC
SPUR
They serve excellent farm-driven seasonal food, with a short concise menu that is really well executed and their bar program is top notch.
Belltown
New American Gastropub
RESTAURANTS - SEATTLE, WA
FLATIRON LOUNGE
Julie Reiner is a trail blazer. She is the genesis of the cocktail movement in New York.
Flatiron
Lounge
COCKTAILS - NEW YORK, NY
I like Jim Meehan’s humble approach, his infinite knowledge, and I think he’s done amazing things within the industry to elevate the service and quality of cocktails.
East Village
Cocktails / Hot Dogs
PEGU CLUB
Audrey Saunders is a pioneer and deserves the credit for all of these young mixologists out there.
Soho
Cocktail Lounge
CANTINA
Duggan McDonnell at Cantina works a lot with Latin spirits. He’s been on the radar in San Francisco for a long, long time. He’s awesome. He actually just made his own Pisco in Peru.
Union Square
Cocktails
COCKTAILS - SAN FRANCISCO, CA
VESSEL
Jamie Boudreau’s approach is great. I haven’t met the guy, but I’ve been to his place and I like his website. His videos are great.
Downtown
Cocktails
COCKTAILS - SEATTLE, WA
THE VIOLET HOUR
These guys are top notch, they have incredible cocktails, serious bartenders, and a beautiful room.
Wicker Park
Cocktails
COCKTAILS - CHICAGO, IL
THE BRICKSKELLER INN
1523 22nd St NW, Washington, DC 20037 (view map)
T: 202.293.1885
They have over a thousand bottles, but what I love about it is they have all these old beer cans everywhere, going back to the 30’s and 40’s. It’s like a museum of beer cans.
Dupont Circle
Bar
BEER - WASHINGTON, DC
Garrett Oliver, as the brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery, is a true student and a true artist of beer. He travels the world, studies with other brewmasters, trains, apprentices, and he’s also rewriting the Oxford Companion to Beer - no slouch gets that task.
BEER
American
DOGFISH HEAD
I love what Dogfish Head does. I experiment with a lot of stuff, but when I pick up a 6-pack I generally go for the stuff that I love.
STONE IPA
I like West Coast super hopped up beer like Stone IPA.
Belgian
SAISON DUPONT
It’s a farmhouse style ale, which generally comes with a cork and is fermented with 6 percent alcohol and is spicy, fresh, and crisp. I’ll have one of these to start a meal and finish a meal.
WESTMALLE TRAPPIST TRIPEL
It’s my beer ‘grail.’ It’s 9 percent alcohol, crisp and fruity at the same time.
Italian
BIRRA DEL BORGO
They are doing crazy stuff using tapioca and all different grains, different spices, and they’re virtually rewriting the book.
LE BALADIN
They’re virtually rewriting the book.
PAUSA CAFE
Their headquarters are in the ‘Lorusso e Cotugno’ penitentiary in Turino, Italy. I really like this guy. His stuff kills. Rules don’t apply.
FEE BROTHERS
I like two in particular, the peach and the rhubarb. With brown spirits, I use the peach. I find it works with a wide range of flavors.
With white spirits, I use the rhubarb. It adds the bitterness, but it also gives it a little bit of a beautiful fruity character too.
BITTERS
THE BITTER TRUTH
Really good stuff. These are one of my go-to’s.
STEVE OLSON AKA WINE GEEK
I love what Steve Olson has been doing with aka wine geek, as far as education with a bar program.
WINE / COCKTAIL EDUCATION ONLINE
Photo Courtesy of Fred Dexheimer
WHO
Master sommelier and cocktail consultant.
WHY
One of only 105 Master Sommeliers in the US and now making a name in the cocktail world working as a consultant with hotels, restaurants, and corporate clients.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Fred Dexheimer’s recommendations on where to drink in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle.
YUENGLING LAGER
Brewed By: Yuengling
American lager, brewed with roasted caramel malt for a subtle sweetness.
American - Cans
DALE’S PALE ALE
Brewed By: Oskar Blues Brewery
Hoppy nose, assertive-but-balanced flavors of pale malts and hops from start to finish.
PIKELAND PILS
Brewed By: Sly Fox Brewery
A Northern German style Pilsner brewed with imported German Pils malt and hopped with German and Czech hops. Light in body, light straw in color and dry.
SNAPPERHEAD IPA
Brewed By: Butternuts Beer & Ale
India pale ale has a balance of dryness and drinkability. It has a sweetness and bitter hoppy finish.
Love me some cans! When we opened BLT Burger in 2006, I was one of the first higher end restaurants to place can beer. I had 5 cans featured amongst 5 drafts and 20 bottles....here are my favorites.
