NEVER HAVE YOU HAD A CATASTROPHIC SHIFT LIKE THIS
By Jabriel Donohue We are weeks, it’s hard to tell how many, into the COVID-19 stay-at-home order in Seattle. My pour-over coffee skills have...
DRINKING LIKE DEAR OLD DAD
The Liquid Father’s Day Phenomenon I Never Had By Francine Cohen The phone rang today as I stood in the greeting card aisle of...
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
August 15, 2012 At the risk of misleading you and coming off sounding very booze and NYC centric, this letter from the Editor opens...
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE
Inside the minds of many of this country’s best chefs and bartenders in 2011 By Francine Cohen At the end of 2010 as people...
MANAGING EXPECTATIONS
By Michael Neff Hospitality as a business is unique, in that anyone who throws a decent dinner-party or mixes cocktails in their kitchen thinks...
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN…
How to Handle a Flash Crisis? Or…Forming a Crisis Response Strategy By Adele R. Cehrs Imagine this… your restaurant receives a bad health grade...
ABOVE ALL ELSE, BE A BARTENDER
The Mixfits Manifesto The Mixfits is a band of like-minded bartenders that believe very strongly in using quality and fresh ingredients, proper technique and...
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
So much has happened in the world at large since our last newsletter. Some events, like the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, were monumental,...