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RECOMMENDATIONS

ELEVEN MADISON PARK

www.elevenmadisonpark.com

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

www.convivionyc.com

45 Tudor City Place, New York, NY 10017 (view map)

(212) 599-5045

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.

Purchase on Amazon.com

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.

Purchase on Amazon.com

THE CRAFT OF THE COCKTAIL

It’s a must have.

Purchase on Amazon.com

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.

Purchase on Amazon.com

Author: Harry Craddock

MASTER SOMMELIER & MIXOLOGIST

FRED DEXHEIMER

September 23, 2010

www.frankiesspuntino.com

457 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231 (view map)

T: 718.403.0033

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

www.frankspm.com

465 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231 (view map)

T: 718.254.0327

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

www.frankiesspuntino.com

17 Clinton Street, New York, NY 10002 (view map)

T: 212.253.2303

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

www.marea-nyc.com

240 Central Park South, New York, NY 10019 (view map)

T: 212.582.5100

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

www.altorestaurant.com

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

www.holeman-finch.com

2277 Peachtree Road, Suite B, Atlanta, GA 30309 (view map)

T: 404.948.1175

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

www.proofdc.com

775 G Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 (view map)

T: 202.737.7663

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

www.spurseattle.com

113 Blanchard Street, Seattle, WA 98121 (view map)

T: 206.728.6706

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

www.flatironlounge.com

37 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011 (view map)

T: 212.727.7741

Julie Reiner is a trail blazer. She is the genesis of the cocktail movement in New York.

Flatiron

Lounge

COCKTAILS - NEW YORK, NY

PDT

www.pdtnyc.com

113 Saint Marks Place, New York, NY 10009 (view map)

T: 212.614.0386

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

www.peguclub.com

77 West Houston Street, New York, NY 10012 (view map)

T: 212.473.7348

Audrey Saunders is a pioneer and deserves the credit for all of these young mixologists out there.

Soho

Cocktail Lounge

CANTINA

www.cantinasf.com

580 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 (view map)

T: 415.398.0195

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

www.vesselseattle.com

1312 Fifth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101 (view map)

T: 206.652.0521

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

www.theviolethour.com

1520 North Damen Avenue, Chicago, IL 60622 (view map)

T: 773.252.1500

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

Peach Bitters

Rhubarb Bitters

www.feebrothers.com

Purchase on Amazon.com

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.

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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

www.yuengling.com

American lager, brewed with roasted caramel malt for a subtle sweetness.

American - Cans

DALE’S PALE ALE

Brewed By: Oskar Blues Brewery

www.oskarblues.com

Hoppy nose, assertive-but-balanced flavors of pale malts and hops from start to finish.

PIKELAND PILS

Brewed By: Sly Fox Brewery

www.slyfoxbeer.com

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

www.butternutsbeerandale.com

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.