BARTENDER “Hall of Fame”®. This coveted induction with signature ring will be presented to Jim Houlihan on Nov. 18th at Farrell’s in Brooklyn, NY. Coming soon – look for BARTENDER® Magazine Fall/Winter issue for this years’ inductee.
We received the following Email from a good Samaritan:
I have found a lost Bartender Hall of Fame® Ring.
The ring has a red stone, and is about size 7 or 8. I found it in the Hayes
Valley/Civic Center area of San Francisco, CA. Specifically, it was lying
on the sidewalk on the north side of Hayes Street, near the intersection of
Gough Street. I found it at around 6:30 PM, on Tuesday, April 2.
I’d be happy to return it to the owner, if he/she can be identified. Please
advise. Thanks.
Contact [email protected] if this is your ring!
Claud, now known as Zag, lives in a small efficiency apartment above his brothers’ restaurant, Chez Pierre (his brothers’ name is Irving), bought by his parents after his father sold his hedge fund for $40 million! This is where Claud, now Zag, keeps his $2 million collection of oil and vegetables. He keeps his collection of bar napkins (6,669 different ones). He sells his own witty bar napkins with sayings like, ‘Last Call’ and ‘Is That Your Cocktail’ – 6 for $40. He also has 3,200 books on everything!
Claud/Zag has said in an English/French accent, “I have served every President since Eisenhower and every head of state in the world, 3 Popes, 72 Academy Award winners, and 12 queens including Elton John.” Claud/Zag has also been a consultant to 320 liquor and spirits companies.
Zag was the co-creator of the mojito and cosmopolitan, and has traveled the world 6 times serving and promoting his creations. Claud/Zag is also a judge at the Best Ultimate San Francisco/New York Mighty Contest Challenge for the last 11 years and This Is The Ultimate Best Liquor.
The many names he has gone by are: Bar Emperor, Master Mojo, Up To Date Mixman, and Bar Genius Guru and now wears one false eyelash.
Claud/Zag has spoken and taught at Drinks of the Decade, Hey I Know What I’m Doing & You Don’t Seminars, Bar Brilliance (a $3,000.00 3-day course in Camden, NJ) and has written for every major magazine and newspaper in the free world. He is the featured writer for 200 trade publications, including: “LeaveMyDrinkAloneIAmGoingToTheBathroom.com.” Plus he has written the bestseller of all drink books – “It’s All About Me, I Am The Greatest” – Limited Edition of 15.
In my brief and scary conversation with Zag, who just changed his name to “Cocktail,” Claud/Zag/Cocktail starts, “Any person can make a cocktail, but can they make up a great recipe using lots of Prune Juice? I don’t think so. Only I can, and “I” is my favorite word.”
Claud/Zag/Cocktail was now joined by his four public relation firms, including Dale, Tony, Daniel, and Paul Luco, BS’r to the world. I had to leave, it was much too crowded in his small apartment with his public relations crew, $2 million worth of oil and vegetables, 6,669 bar napkins and 3,200 books on everything. But I did get two of his favorite recipes:
WORLD’S BEST COCKTAIL
3 parts My Own Tasty Bitters
3 cl Ripoff Vodka
3 oz. Rad’s Galliana
3 spoons Blue Afghan Sugar Substitute
3 leaves off a Calabrand Bush
3 Turtle Doves (No animals will be harmed, use only the shells)
Muddle with one of my BarGenius Muddlers, available from LeaveMyDrinkAloneIAmGoingToTheBathroom.com for 6 minutes and then blend all ingredients. Serve in a very tall glass. Garnish with a watermelon wedge.
I CAN’T BELIEVE I DRANK THE WHOLE THING AFTER MY BICYCLE BROKE
18 parts Oil of Chevron
3 cl Who Ever Pays Me Product Of The Moment
5 Green Peppers, Chopped
2 Small Onions, Mashed
2 oz. Pure Water from Iowa
1 Slice of Bologna
Shake 18 times. Serve in shot glass with a bologna slice.
APRIL FOOL! Or is it….?
HEINEKEN USA is proud to share that President and CEO Dolf van den Brink has been named one of Fortune Magazine’sprestigious “40 Under 40!” The annual list of business leaders under 40 years old celebrates some of the most influential contributors in technology, media, finance, and now beer. To read Dolf’s profile and view the full list of nominees, please follow this link: http://money.cnn.com/gallery/magazines/fortune/2012/10/11/40-under-40.fortune/8.html
Ranked 8th among leaders like Mark Zuckerberg and the founders of Google, the is the first time anyone from the beer industry has been nominated, and Dolf is only one of two CPG executives highlighted on the tech-dominated list. we believe this honor reflects the culture and performance changes HEINEKEN USA activated during his three years, all contributing to our ambition to be the leading upscale beer company in the U.S.
Claud, now known as Zag, lives in a small efficiency apartment above his brothers’ restaurant, Chez Pierre (his brother’s name is Irving), bought by his parents after his father sold his hedge fund for $40 million.
This is where Claud, now Zag, keeps his $2 million collection of oil and vegetables, as well as his collection of bar napkins — 6,669 different ones, to be exact. (He sells his own witty bar napkins with sayings like ‘Last Call’ and ‘Is That Your Cocktail?’, six for $40.) He also has 3,200 books on everything.
Claud/Zag said in an English-French accent, “I have served every President since Eisenhower and every head of state in the world, three popes, 72 Academy Award winners, and 12 queens including Elton John.” He has also been a consultant to 320 liquor and spirits companies.
The co-creator of the Mojito and the Cosmopolitan, he has traveled the world six times serving and promoting his creations. For the last 11 years, he has been a judge at the Best Ultimate San Francisco-New York Mighty Contest Challenge. He is only 40 years old.
The many names Claud/Zag has gone by are: Bar Emperor, Master Mojo Up-To-Date Mixman, and Bar Genius Guru.
He has spoken and taught at Drinks of the Decade, “Hey I Know What I’m Doing & You Don’t” seminars, Bar Brilliance (a $3,000 three-day course in Camden, NJ.), and has written for every major magazine and newspaper in the free world. He is the featured writer for 200 trade publications, including LeaveMyDrinkAloneIAmGoingToTheBathroom.com. Not to mention, he has written the bestseller of all drink books, It’s All About Me, I Am the Greatest (Limited Edition of 15).
In my brief and scary conversation with Zag, who just changed his name to Cocktail, he began, “Any person can make a cocktail, but can they make up a great recipe using a lot of Velvet Falernum? I don’t think so. Only I can, and “I” is my favorite word.”
Zag/Cocktail was then joined by his four public relations firms, and I had to leave. It was much too crowded in his small apartment with his $2 million worth of oil and vegetables, 6,669 bar napkins, and 3,200 books on everything. But I did get two of his favorite recipes he created for the world.
World’s Best Cocktail
Muddle with a BarGenius muddler (available online from LeaveMyDrinkAloneIAmGoingToTheBathroom.com) for six minutes and then blend all ingredients.
Serve in a very tall glass. Garnish with a watermelon wedge.
I Can’t Believe I Drank the Whole Thing After My Bicycle Broke Cocktail
Shake 18 times. Serve in eight shot glasses with a bologna slice.
APRIL FOOLS! Or is it… ?
Read more: http://www.thedailymeal.com/exclusive-interview-bar-genius#ixzz1IfCTQRDJ
Photo courtesy of Playboy.com
Ashley Krystle serves ‘em strong at the Havana Club in Atlanta, and bares her secrets (and more) in the July edition of Playboy magazine. She was selected for the feature as part of Playboy’s “Hottest Bartender Search.”
In a Q&A with the magazine (since we know you read it for the articles) she reveals that club owners prefer to keep her front and center so patrons see her as soon as they arrive, and that she’s pretty friendly with the paying guests.
“It’s really cool,” she says in the article. “Most of the clientele are regulars and have become friends, so basically I get paid to hang out and do shots with my friends.”
Here’s her secret recipe for what she calls an A.M. shot, so named, she explained, because after you slam one, “you’ll want to party into the a.m.”
1 part Cîroc Red Berry
1 part Cîroc Coconut
Splash of simple syrup
Splash of sour mix
Splash of 7Up
Mix and serve in a shot glass
After Grueling Competition, Carlo Romero Wins Hearts of Hostesses Everywhere and Earns the Title of Stirrings Naked Bartender
NEW YORK, June 25 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Stirrings, the line of all-natural mixers and bar ingredients, has found their man. After a grueling finalist search all across the country in search for the country’s most “naked,” all-natural men and an all-out Stirrings Naked Bartender competition yesterday in New York, Stirrings has tapped Carlo Romero of San Diego, CA, as the official Stirrings Naked Bartender, a brand ambassador and official bartender who embraces the brand’s simple, fresh lifestyle and will tour the country helping Stirrings consumers serve simply better cocktails in the coming year.
During the Stirrings Naked Bartender competition, which happened yesterday at the Time Warner Center in New York, a panel of no-nonsense judges, including Celia Chen, Founder & Editor of Notes on a Party, and Joaquin Simo, a bartender at the ultra-chic New York City lounge, whittled down the competition. Six Naked Bartender hopefuls were scored on their creative and classic cocktail creation, a judges’ challenging Q&A and on-the-spot consumer questions. But at the end of the day it was Carlo who won over the judges and the hearts of hostesses everywhere.
“We wanted to bring our lifestyle to life and demonstrate that Stirrings’ ever-growing portfolio makes it simple to create all-natural, world-class drinks,” said Jody Samuels Ike, Senior Brand Manager, Diageo Cocktails. “The Naked Bartender will be the voice of the brand, spreading the word that better ingredients make better cocktails and that drinking and serving responsibly is simply better.”
“I’m extremely excited to tour the country on behalf of Stirrings as the Naked Bartender,” said Carlo Romero. “My lifestyle is all about serving the best natural ingredients so I’m excited to encourage my fans to embrace the all-natural lifestyle as well.”
Consumers who miss out on The Naked Bartender event can still participate in all of the all-natural excitement. Fans can visit Stirrings.com and the Stirrings Facebook page to view recipes, photos and video messages directly from The Naked Bartender. In fall, 2010, the Naked Bartender also will tour the states, conducting cocktail demos and encouraging consumers to celebrate the all-natural lifestyle with Stirrings.
LeRoy Neiman is arguably America’s most popular living artist. His unique talents have made his work so admired that he has brought art into the lives of millions of Americans.
In 1954, Neiman began his association with Playboy Magazine. Since 1960, he has traveled the world observing and painting leisure life, social activities and athletic competitions including the Olympics, the Super Bowl, the World Series, the Kentucky Derby, championship boxing, PGA and the Masters golf tournament, Wimbledon, and other Grand Slam competitions, as well as night life, entertainment, jazz, and the world of casino gambling.
Neiman has received five honorary doctorates and numerous awards, a recent Lifetime achievement award from the University of Southern California, an induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame®, and proclamations and citations. Most recently he has received The Order of Lincoln on the 200th birthday celebration of Abraham Lincoln given by The Lincoln Academy of Illinois.
LeRoy Neiman has authored twelve books of his art. A documentary on his jazz painting, “The Big Band,” had its world premiere in Los Angeles, February 2009. His work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the State Hermitage Museum in Russia, Wadham College at Oxford and in museums and art galleries the world over, as well as in private and corporate collections.
BARTENDER Magazine is humbled to have the great LeRoy Neiman paint an original piece for the cover of our Spring issue.
The May/June 2010 issue cover story features the 25 Most Influential Cocktails of the Past Century. Compiling that list got us thinking about the people behind some of those cocktails, so we thought it only fitting to create a list of the 25 most influential cocktail personalities of the last 100 years. For this list, we considered the type of influence someone has had on the cocktail world as well as the duration of that influence—and keep in mind that these are people who have specifically influenced cocktail culture, not spirits. Whether they’ve created an iconic cocktail, spawned a cocktail trend or dedicated themselves to educating the public about the craft of cocktails, the following 25 people (listed alphabetically) have undoubtedly impacted the way we all drink cocktails today, and for that, we toast each of them.
Ray Foley
A former Marine and bartender, the always outspoken Ray Foley (no relation to Imbibe founder, Karen Foley) launched Bartender Magazine three decades ago, serving for a long stretch as one of the few magazines dedicated to bartending. He’s authored several bartending books (as well as a few joke books) and founded The Bartenders’ Foundation, a non-profit that raises scholarship money for bartenders and their families.
CARROLLTON, Texas, March 30 /PRNewswire/ — Brian Zachau, a 32-year-old bartender from the Maple Grove, Minnesota T.G.I. Friday’s restaurant was crowned “The Greatest T.G.I. Friday’s Bartender in the World” at T.G.I. Friday’s Worldwide Headquarters in Carrollton, Texas on Friday, following an intense finals competition between ten elite mixologists (bartenders) from around the globe. Ram Ong, from the Philippines placed second and Atillia Farmasi, from Hungary was third.
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After four second place finishes and six overall appearances in the World Bartender Championship, Zachau finally broke through for his first world title. Zachau, a five-time defending U.S. Champion, now stakes the claim as the world’s best. This is the first time in 13 years a U.S. bartender has the won the competition.
“Can’t be any more perfect than this!” said Zachau after hearing his name announced as the winner. “I just kept practicing and competing. I knew I’d break through and win some day.”
Nearly 7,000 Friday’s bartenders from 60 countries entered this year’s World Bartender Championship. The ten finalists exhibited their knowledge and showed off their flair through months of local, regional, divisional and national competitions to reach the finals. Friday afternoon’s freestyle segment gave the competitors the ultimate stage to show off their flair techniques of tossing, balancing, mixing cocktails and flipping bottles in the air to choreographed music.
“These ten contestants represent the best of the best,” said Nick Shepherd, president and chief executive officer of Carlson Restaurants Worldwide, parent of T.G.I. Friday’s. “Today’s competition is a testament to Friday’s heritage of having the best mixologists in the world.”
The finalists competed throughout the week in a variety of skills tests, compulsory and speed rounds, where they demonstrated their mastery of bar mechanics, including technical knowledge and accuracy.
Zachau received a $10,000 cash prize, bragging rights and a place in Friday’s lore as well as a propeller engraved with his name to hang above his home Friday’s bar. The propeller is a Friday’s icon which signifies the bar as the engine that drives the restaurant’s energy and atmosphere. Propellers hang above the bars in all T.G.I. Friday’s locations worldwide.
The World Bartender Championship represents Friday’s longstanding heritage, knowledge, expertise and innovation in the beverage industry. The competition began back in the late 80s as a challenge between bartenders and has grown into a full representation of the Friday’s brand, one of the most recognized brands in the world.
Originators of the now-famous, trend-setting, bottle tossing “flair” style of bartending, T.G.I. Friday’s bartenders are world renowned for their accuracy and precision, their larger than life personalities and their award-winning ability to entertain guests around the world.
With more than 900 restaurants in 60 countries, including approximately 600 restaurants in the U.S., T.G.I. Friday’s offers great food, innovative drinks and a unique experience filled with flair and a Thank God It’s Friday’s™ attitude. Friday’s authentic, engaging atmosphere makes it the perfect place to escape, socialize and connect with people while getting a rejuvenating second wind. Members of Give Me More Stripes®, Friday’s guest recognition program, receive free stuff and special perks year-round. As the original casual dining restaurant, T.G.I. Friday’s has a rich heritage which includes being credited with popularizing Happy Hour, Long Island Iced Tea and Loaded Potato Skins. T.G.I. Friday’s is also famous for its flair bartenders, approximately 7000 of whom compete annually for the title of the “World’s Greatest T.G.I. Friday’s Bartender.”
Carlson Restaurants Worldwide Inc., the parent company of TGI Friday’s Inc., is a privately held company owned by Minneapolis-based Carlson, a world leader in the hospitality and travel industries. As of March 2010, Carlson Restaurants Worldwide owns, operates, franchises or licenses more than 1,000 restaurants in 60 countries. For more information, visit http://www.fridays.com.
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