Offering hand-crafted cocktails prepared with fine spirits, fresh juices, fresh herbs, house-made syrups and love.
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What’s the best quality of your bar team?
BB
I think like any team, the best qualities come from our differences as people. Everyone on the team is an individual who is nice/open hearted enough to work as a collective. The through line being in that I think our team is full of nice, kind people whom I don't have to convince to be hospitable - that's who they are. I should throw out that they are also always game to go on whatever wild ride a menu or event theme ends up being - there's not only an acceptance but an embrace of it.
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How do you all have fun together?
BB
Hmmm... in the past the team within my generation were actually all good friends (maybe some of us became friends during our time at Big Bar) and we would not only hang after work, but work together on art projects and support each others artistic endeavors. We DID have a two time championship bowling team back when Spare Room did the industry league. We have had trivia teams (that might get a reboot). In this new generation as managers, we're always happy to see the support outside of work is still there. Also - a bunch of us just went horse back riding, that was fun 🙂
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What makes your bar team unique?
BB
I think the individuality of each person at the bar speaks to our uniqueness. I also think longevity makes us unique - Selene just past 10 years, my tenure is as old as the bar (nearly 14 years) as is couple of our guys. We have had some new members join the team during COVID but those bartenders have past 2-3 years already. It's a place with very few turn over and I think that helps feed the above.
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How do you have fun with Singani?
BB
Singani IS fun. Sure, you can Potato Head it for brandy or pisco cocktails, probably to great effect, but because it hits hard and soft (cue Billie Eilish new album reference) it's a great pillar to build cocktail flavor. We have a cocktail on our current menu made by bartender Daniel Lee that saddles the robust/floral white muscat notes with thyme and plums to make a lovely sipper in the High Thymes. And yes, it's fun because we cap it with a thyme dog walker joint.
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What's your desert island cocktail?
BB
For me (and I can probably speak for Selene) it's gonna be a gorgeous Mai Tai bc HEY, you're not stranded on a desert island, you GET TO BE on a desert island. Embrace the vacation. We'll need one after pulling off our 20th anniversary party for Alcove this Thursday...
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What cocktail ingredient can you not live without?
BB
The base spirit - without it, it's just juice. Also, I love a good grenadine.
