Godmother of the Craft Cocktail Renaissance ✨🥂🍸🥂✨ 🌟🍸🌟Pegu Club, NYC A bar, world-renowned for pioneering the modern craft cocktail movement and for advancing mixology into the 21st century. Pegu also spawned a number of the finest mixologists in the U.S. 🇺🇸 “The Harvard of Cocktails” - NY Times✨ 🌟James Beard Awards 2x Finalist - Best Bar Program 🌟Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards: ✨🏆✨Best American Bar ✨🏆✨Worlds Best Bar ✨🏆✨Worlds Best Bartender ✨🏆✨Best Bar Mentor ✨🏆✨Pioneer Award ✨🏆✨Helen David Lifetime Achievement Award Bon Appetit Magazine: ✨🏆✨Best Wine & Spirits Professional Esquire Magazine 🌟Best Bar, New York Time Out, NY Awards 🌟Best New Bar 🏵17th Year - Beverage Chair NYC Citymeals-on-Wheels Chef’s Tribute charity, raised $750k+ 🏵Former Beverage Chair, Share Our Strength / Taste of the Nation charity, NY 🏵Les Dames D’Escoffier NY Chapter, former member 🥳Some of my cocktails: 🍹Old Cuban 🍹Gin-Gin Mule 🍹Little Italy 🍹Earl Grey MarTEAni 🍹Tantris Sidecar 🍹French Pearl 🍹Intro to Aperol 🍹Cucumber-Mint Creole 🍹Dreamy Dorini Smoking Martini 🍹Madeira Martinez 🍹Falling Leaves 🍹Eve 🎭Things I’ve done, both good & bad: ✈️As a former skydiver, I used to jump out of perfectly good airplanes. 🗻I’ve climbed to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro, 🛥and captained 60’ yachts. 🤫🙀🏊‍♀️I once went swimming in Rockefeller Center’s fountain under the watchful eye of Prometheus, 👀 👑attended to Royalty, 🚜 and operated heavy machinery in midtown Manhattan.   🌱👩🏼‍🌾 Studied Permaculture design with Toby Hemenway, Larry Santoyo and Geoff Lawton 🌞🌾🌻 🐟I also make a pretty mean Salmon Mousse (my mom’s recipe) 📚Last but not least, just began working on a big, fat mixology book 🤓📖 Former Work Places & Mentors: Blackbird, NY ✨Dale DeGroff, without him I wouldn’t be where I am today. Bemelmans Bar at The Carlyle Hotel, NYC ✨Peter French ✨Albert Herrera ✨Joel Freyberg ✨Jean-Louis Dumonet ✨Roger Rice ✨Greg Dinella ✨James McBride ✨Siobhan O’Leary ✨Marcy Lieberman ✨Jean-Marie Dubois ✨Paul Goldenberg Waterfront Ale House, NYC & BK ✨Sam Barbieri ✨Cory Hill ✨Ralph Yedinak Beacon Restaurant, NYC ✨Waldy Malouf ✨Marie Maher Tonic Restaurant, NYC ✨Joe Fortunado ✨Steve Tzolis