by Sarah Marjoribanks | Jan 22, 2020 | Food and Beverages, Side Bar
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1579165178412{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]In the nearly two decades that I have been working behind the stick and in the industry, I have seen many trends pop up, and disappear into the darkness. As...
by Keenan Prinsloo | Jun 26, 2019 | Food and Beverages, Side Bar
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]While knife skills are Skills 101 to a chef, free pouring used to be the equivalent for bartenders. I remember being given a daily free pour test at a bar I used to work –if we failed, we had the misfortune of wearing a bright pink...
by Keenan Prinsloo | Mar 28, 2019 | Food and Beverages, Side Bar
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Let me pose a question to you… What is a cocktail? Better yet, what is a good cocktail? According to the Oxford Dictionary, a cocktail is any spirit base mixed with a mixer. Now, would you consider a brandy and coke to be a cocktail?...
by Keenan Prinsloo | Mar 2, 2019 | Food and Beverages, Side Bar
Keegan Smith from Barsmith Cocktail Co. shows us how to make a booze-free cocktail aka mixtail Before we get started, here’s a refresher on the 5 parts of a cocktail The Base: The spirit of the drink. When using a neutral spirit, pretty much anything goes, but when...
by Keenan Prinsloo | Jan 30, 2019 | Food and Beverages, Side Bar
*Image courtesy of Cafe Hemingways Recently I have been looking at the industry, comparing it to when I first started flairing back in 2002. Back then, the bar scene was very different. It was mostly about one thing – having fun! Personally, I feel that we are taking...