Bartender Tony Conigliaro | Recommendations - Find. Eat. Drink.
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BAR UNCOMMON / BARTENDER CHRIS MCMILLIAN
Renaissance Pere Marquette Hotel
817 Common Street, New Orleans, LA 70112
T: 504.525.1111
Enjoy those bloody amazing mint juleps that he makes. I have watched him and watched him and watched him and I don’t know how he bloody well does it. There is something he does. He’s a wonderful, wonderful guy.
Central Business District
Cocktail Lounge / Bar
Recommendations
COCKTAIL KINGDOM
Cocktail Tools
London, U.K.
Barcelona, Spain
Berlin, Germany
Paris, France
New Orleans, NY
New York, NY
Portland, OR
Find | Cocktail Tools
They are great. Greg’s [Boehm] business partner is an old friend and he runs Cocktail Kingdom UK and to be honest there isn’t really that much that those guys don’t really nail -- from the books to the bar equipment.
OLD SPIRITS COMPANY / EDGAR HARDEN
One of our big regulars is an antiques dealer and he finds lots of old booze. He’s been finding some of the most incredible stuff that we’ve never had, like Schweppes Orange Tonic and things like that from the 1920s. He literally turns up with a box of things and says I’ve got this from the 1930s and that from the 1940s. At the moment we’ve got Campari from the 1940s through to the present day.
Antique Liquors
Who
Bartender Tony Congiliaro is the man behind the cocktails at 69 Colebrooke Row and The Zetter Townhouse in London, UK.
Why
He has a creative lab called Drink Factory where he and his team let their minds drift into the unexpected; they distill, mix and develop bespoke products for the bars -- anything from re-distilling vodka and gin using toothpaste and rocks to syrups and milkshakes. He’s a little bit Willy Wonka stirred with a dash of Old School.
Bartender Tony Conigliaro | Recommendations
August 2, 2012
69 Colebrooke Row - The Zetter Townhouse - The Drink Factory - London, UK
Photographs courtesy of Tony Conigliaro & 69 Colebrooke Row Hospitality
Find | Antique Liquors
BEEFEATER & BEEFEATER 24
www.beefeatergin.com / www.beefeater24.com
Beefeater available at these retailers
Beefeater 24 available at these retailers
England / London
Liquor / Gin
Find | Liquors / Spirits
The difference between the two is a green tea note and grapefruit. Beefeater 24 is the only modern gin that I really like, apart from maybe some of the smaller boutique gins.
GLINNE PARRAS SCOTCH WHISKY
Available at these retailers
A strange one -- an obscure one. Hardly anybody knows it, but it’s just one of those ones we found once that is the most amazing kind of cocktail whisky. I make Whisky Sours with it.
Scotland / Speyside
Liquor / Whisky / Scotch
MARTINI DRY VERMOUTH
Italy
Liquor / Vermouth
MARTINI ROSSO SWEET VERMOUTH
Available at these retailers
For a Manhattan I like Martini Rosso. I think some of the other vermouths are either too powerful or too weak and the Martini Rosso sits well with the Rittenhouse.
Italy
Liquor / Vermouth
SACRED GIN
England / London
Liquor / Gin
SIPSMITH GIN
England / London
Liquor / Gin
SMOKING GUN
Cocktail Tools
Smoke guns are huge fun... one of the things we’ve enjoyed with the smoke guns is burning tea through them.
Find | Bitters
ANGOSTURA BITTERS
Trinidad
Bitters
A classic.
THE CONNAUGHT / BARTENDER AGOSTINO PERRONE
www.the-connaught.co.uk/connaught_bar.aspx
16 Carlos Place, Mayfair, London W1K 2AL, United Kingdom
T: +44/(0)20.7499.7070
Mayfair
Hotel Cocktail Bar
Drink | Cocktails - London, U.K.
He’s a great one for the classics.
LOUNGE BOHEMIA / BARTENDER PAUL TVAROH
1e Great Eastern Street City of London, EC2A 3EJ, United Kingdom
T: +44/(0)77.2070.7000
He does some fun stuff.
Broadgate
Cocktail Bar
BISTROT BRUNO LOUBET
86-88 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1M 5RJ, United Kingdom
T: +44/(0)20.7324.4455
Clerkenwell
French / Bistro
Eat & Drink | Restaurants - London, U.K.
It’s one of the restaurants that I go to regularly -- I really like it. They have a good wine selection.
Drink | Cocktails - Barcelona, Spain
41° / Bartender Mark Safón
Avinguda Parallel 164, 08015 Barcelona, Spain
I had some phenomenal cocktails. Mark, the head bartender, is brilliant. He makes some really interesting combinations. He makes a Pisco Sour with a little balsamic note to it -- it’s phenomenal.
Sant Antoni
Spanish / Cocktail Bar
BUCK & BRECK
Mitte
Cocktail Bar
Drink | Cocktails - Berlin, Germany
Making some great classic twists, which I really enjoy.
Drink | Cocktails - Paris, France
L'Entrée des Artistes
8, Rue de Crussol, 75011 Paris, France
T: +33/(0)9.50.99.67.11
Probably the hottest cocktail bar in France, he’s making some really nice stuff, reductions of pomegranate and things like that.
11th Arrondissement
French / Tapas / Cocktail Bar
BOOKER & DAX
Dave Arnold’s Blog:
www.momofuku.com/restaurants/booker-and-dax
207 2nd Avenue, New York, NY 10003
T: 212.254.3500
East Village
Cocktail Bar
Drink | Cocktails - New York CITY
Dave Arnold is doing amazing stuff. My god, he’s got some great drinks on the menu. He’s a very dear friend as well. I think what he’s doing will change a lot of what happens behind bars, especially with the cold carbonation that he’s doing, it’s just phenomenal. His blog is amazing as well.
DRAM BAR
There’s some really great stuff happening in Brooklyn.
Williamsburg
Cocktail Bar
DUTCH KILLS / BARTENDER RICHARD BOCCATO
Bartender Richard Boccat0 -- wherever he’s working -- he’s brilliant.
Long Island City
Cocktail Bar
BEMELMENS BAR | THE CARLYLE HOTEL
www.rosewoodhotels.com/en/carlyle/dining/bemelmans_bar
35 East 76th Street New York, NY 10021
T: 212.744.1600
Old school bars - I love them -- all the old boys.
Upper East Side
Cocktail Bar
KING COLE BAR
There’s some really great stuff happening in Brooklyn.
Midtown East
Cocktail Bar
MILK & HONEY
134 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002
I love Milk & Honey -- Sam [Ross] and Mickey [McIlroy] are great -- they are friends.
Lower East Side
Cocktail Bar
TERAKAWA RAMEN
Gramercy
Japanese / Ramen
Eat | Restaurants - New York CITY
A great noodle play we always go to that’s off 23rd Street -- it’s brilliant.
KEEN’s STEAKHOUSE
I love it -- I got this absurd chunk of meat.
Midtown West
American / Steakhouse
CURE
Uptown
Cocktail Bar
Drink | Cocktails - New Orleans, LA
The new school guys in New Orleans are doing well too.
FRENCH 75 / BARTENDER CHRIS HANNAH
He is brilliant as well, I love him -- a very cool guy.
Central Business District
Cocktail Lounge / Bar
CAFE ADELAIDE
Central Business District
Creole
Eat | Restaurants - New Orleans, LA
Phenomenal -- just incredible.
COMMANDER’s PALACE
Phenomenal -- just incredible.
Garden District
Cajun / Creole
MAPLE LEAF BAR
Uptown
Bar / Jazz
Find | Jazz Clubs - New Orleans, LA
Chris McMillian takes us here -- God does he know about music, especially jazz.
CLYDE COMMON / BARTENDER JEFFREY MOGENTHALER
1014 Southwest Stark Street, Portland, OR 97205
T: 503.228.3333
You have to go and see him -- it’s a great starting point.
Southwest Portland
American / Cocktail Bar
Drink | Cocktails - Portland, OR
LE PIGEON
Industrial District
Contemporary French / New American
Eat | Restaurants - Portland, OR
The food is sublime -- a brilliant, brilliant chef. The foie gras profiteroles with chocolate is a dessert that knocked me sideways -- it was amazing.
