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Recommendations
PORTLAND FARMERS MARKET
Shemanski Park
SW Park Avenue & SW Salmon Street, Portland, OR 97205
Wed: 10am - 2pm
Old Town Alexandria
Vintage Barware
Alexandria, VA
Boise, ID
Los Angeles, CA
New York, NY
New Orleans, LA
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
Washington, DC
Find | Markets - Portland, OR
Go mid-week on Wednesdays. Smaller and it's all just locals. It's the best farmers market I've ever seen. It’s tremendous.
BEAST
It’s a small place where they literally just do six courses per night. It's wonderful.
Downtown
French
Who
Daniel Shoemaker is the bartender / Owner of the Teardrop Lounge in Portland, Oregon.
Why
Passionate, knowledgeable and talented, Shoemaker is highly respected for his house-made ingredients and continually changing seasonal cocktail menu.
Recommended By
- Bartender Erik Adkins (The Slanted Door in San Francisco, CA)
- Bartender Michael Bowers (The Modern Hotel & Bar in Boise, ID)
- Bartender Chris McMillian (Bar Uncommon in New Orleans, LA)
- Bartender Jeffrey Morgenthaler (Clyde Common in Portland, OR)
Bartender Daniel Shoemaker | Recommendations
May 29, 2012
Teardrop Lounge - Portland, OR
Photographs courtesy of Teardrop Lounge
Eat | Restaurants - Portland, OR
GRÜNER
Someone serious has put together a fantastic cocktail program with an Eastern Europe influence with bitters and digestifs.
Downtown / Southwest Portland
German
PALEY’S PLACE
Great for dinner. It’s a James Beard Award Foundation winner and their cookbook came out last year. It’s the first restaurant I went to in Portland and I just want to go back again and again. It's exceptional. The Escargot à la Bordelaise with veal bone marrow just melts in your mouth. It’s escargot like I've never had before. They also have the best beef tartare in the city.
Alphabet District
American / Pacific Northwest
TASTY N SONS
Tasty n Sons is my favorite. It is a wonderful breakfast spot. I'm trying to get them to open for dinner as well, but it's breakfast tapas. They own Toro Bravo, which is a large Spanish tapas place. But for breakfast, you can't beat it.
Boise
American / Breakfast
THE BENT BRICK
Bar Manager Adam Robinson worked in New York at Momofuku Ssäm Bar and he is running their program. He's very talented. Their menu changes every couple of weeks and it’s based on whatever they get their hands on that week from the rancher, farmer and grower.
Downtown / Northwest
Contemporary American
WOODSMAN TAVERN
Evan Zimmerman is the next generation. He's the most talented bartender in Portland with the most exquisite palate. Woodsman Tavern is more of a restaurant, but his cocktail program is bar none, just outstanding.
Southeast Portland
American
Clyde Common is fantastic. Jeff Morgenthaler is one of the best bartenders I know because he gets this big picture. He understands what it takes to run a program with consistency. He also has the most widely read cocktail blog in the country. Bartenders like when they get to meet him and are just so thankful because they learned from him.
Downtown
American
Drink | Cocktails - Portland, OR
KASK
Tommy Klus is just tremendously talented and a very good host. He puts together a great program.
Downtown / Southwest Portland
Cocktails
OVEN AND SHAKER
Owner Ryan Magarian is also part owner of Aviation Gin and a cocktail guru. His program is so incredibly consistent. He understands the beauty of four ingredients in the drink, which his bartenders execute faithfully all the time.
Pearl District
Pizza / Cocktails
Drink | Coffee - Portland, OR
BARISTA
Pearl District
539 Northwest 13th Avenue, Portland, OR 97209
Alberta
1725 NE Alberta Street, Portland, OR 97211
When they initially opened up, I hated them for the name because it's like opening a bar and calling it bartender. But as I've gotten to know them, they are so incredibly gifted with an understanding for technique and palate.
Multiple Locations
Coffee
COAVA
Coava is the best roaster with really beautiful rich deep dark coffee. They also have a shop on the east side that's just tremendous.
Buckman
Brew Bar
Drink | Cocktails - Alexandria, VA
Todd Trasher is crazy talented.
Old Town Alexandria
Cocktails
Drink | Cocktails - Boise, ID
Michael Bowers is incredibly and has one of the best palates I've ever come across. He gets no recognition or attention because he’s in Boise, but he's leading the charge.
Downtown
Hotel Bar
Drink | Cocktails - Los Angeles, CA
Eric Alperin is my favorite bartender in L.A. and a tremendous host. More than any of the bartenders I know, he understands the theatrics. He remembers that you are on stage and every day is sort of a new performance.
Downtown
Lounge
Drink | Cocktails - New orleans, LA
Renaissance Pere Marquette Hotel
817 Common Street, New Orleans, LA 70112
T: 504.525.1111
Chris McMillian is fantastic. We went to New Orleans and just sat in front of him for a few hours.
[Note: Chris McMillian no longer works at Bar UnCommon.]
Central Business District
Cocktail Lounge / Bar
Drink | Cocktails - New York, NY
MILK AND HONEY
Sam Ross from Milk & Honey built a cocktail for us and he was thrilled that we were asking him to put his cocktail on the menu.
Lower East Side
Cocktails
Drink | Cocktails - San Francisco, CA
HO WING GENERAL STORE
584 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
T: 415.552.2510 (make a reservation)
Brooke Arthur came in and built a cocktail for us at Teardrop Lounge.
[Note: Brooke Arthur no longer works at Ho Wing General Store.]
Mission / Bernal Heights
Chinese
Drink | Cocktails - Seattle, WA
Canon is a must and it’s where Murray Stenson is at currently. Murray Stenson is a consummate host. He's the only one who represents all that's best about being a bartender. He makes the best drinks, but he does so without any pretension. You can sit in front of him, have a drink, and come back a year later and he remembers your drink.
Capitol Hill
Whiskey & Bitters Bar
Drink | Cocktails - Washington, DC
PASSENGER
COLUMBIA ROOM
1021 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20001
T: 202.393.0336
Reservations Required
Derek Brown is an incredibly talented guy.
Penn Quarter
Contemporary American
Find | Cocktail Tools
BAR PRODUCTS
I'm a firm believer in jiggers, obviously, but I want just straightforward jiggers and make sure that they're all either coated or non-coated. I'm just a believer in consistency. I get whatever cheap ones you can get from here.
Online
Bar Tools
COCKTAIL KINGDOM
I love what they’re doing at Cocktail Kingdom, I think it's fantastic. I get the Japanese stirring spoon there. The threads are incredibly tight and are good for my hands, but no one else in my staff. They all hate them. That means I know it's just mine, which is great.
Online
Bar Tools
Find | Spirits
KRONAN SWEDISH PUNSCH
Batavia Arrack is a sugarcane spirit from the Indies that is arguably one of the first distillers ever made. It's very funky and foreign to Western palates with complex layers like chocolate and funky citrus. In Sweden, they started bottling this Scandinavian punch with arrack as the base. It's almost a complete punch in a bottle and it's just fantastic. There are a number of classic recipes that call for it.
Sweden
Liqueur
THE LEOPOLD BROS. MARASCHINO
The Leopold Brothers from Colorado are amazing. I'm most excited about working with their Maraschino, which is just something that doesn't exist. We don't have anything like it.
USA / Colorado
Liqueur
HAUS ALPENZ
Every time importer Eric Seed walks in the front door, I ask him what first-born child I have to name after him, because he's got some product that I didn't know that I needed until he showed up.
Importer
SMALL HANDS
Small Hands makes fantastic products all the way around. I'm most excited about Jennifer Colliau’s Crème de Cacao and Creme de Menthe, having ingredients that have notoriously been inferior, since we've been mixing. A Stinger is a fantastic cocktail, if you have a good creme de menthe, a properly sourced mint.
USA / California
Liqueur
Find | Tonic
FEVER TREE | Q TONIC
Most of the tonic water on the market has the bare minimum of quinine to be called tonic water, so they end up being sweetened soda water for the most part. Q is dryer and Fever Tree is more bitter. They're both fantastic. They're both exceptional options to have at home and good to have in a bar.
USA | United Kingdom
Soda / Tonic Water
