Sean Muldoon

My two-and-a-half star rating is as to this book's usefulness to home bartenders. If I was rating this book for commercial bar owners, or even professional bartenders in high-end bars, I'd give it five stars. That's because most of the book's recipes require special, homemade, ingredients that I don't think the average home bartender has the patience, or space, for, even if they result in an improved cocktail. So good bar history, good professional resource, but as another reviewer has said, not something most people will use to actually make drinks at home.… (mehr)

A bit of story of the birth of the bar, followed by quite a few carefully written recipes, many of which are riffs on, rather than reproductions of, some classics, each twisted a bit off true in what appears after a bit to be a very consistent direction. So I was somewhat skeptical. And then I visited the bar itself. And holy heaven, the drinks. were. perfection. So I believe these recipes now, although I've made very few personally thus far. I have some tinctures and bitters to construct first, you see...

Since the publication of this book, the bar has taken the title of World's Best Cocktail Bar at Tales of the Cocktail (in 2016) along with World's Best Cocktail Menu. Both seem well deserved.… (mehr)