When travelers ask locals where to grab a drink, the answer often depends on who you ask. Rather than turning to Google reviews or Yelp, we went straight to bartenders across the country and asked a simple question: What's the best bar in your city right now? (Other than their own, of course). [...] The post Bartenders Name the Best Bars in Their Cities Right Now appeared first on Chilled Magazine .
by Chilled Magazine · source ↗
Found this useful? Marking helpful boosts the author and shapes the “most helpful” surface on the Chronicle home.
Every year, the beverage industry publishes reports forecasting what's next behind the bar. New spirits. New ingredients. New flavors. New drinking habits. But if you really want to know what's happening, ask the people pouring the drinks. We recently turned to the Chilled Ambassadors (a network of thousands of bartenders working in top bars across [...] The post Bartenders Tell Us What Consumers Want Most Right Now and It Isn’t Just Great Cocktails appeared first on Chilled Magazine .
Bartenders can learn a lot about a guest from a single drink order. A belly-up-to-the-bar order can reveal whether you are dealing with someone who just saw an influencer making a cocktail on TikTok or someone who genuinely appreciates what’s in the glass and the skill that goes into making it. While ordering a hyper-niche [...] The post The 3 Drink Orders That Instantly Earn a Bartender’s Respect appeared first on Chilled Magazine .
The cocktail renaissance of the early 2000s did more than give us modern classics like the Paper Plane and Penicillin. It also sparked renewed interest in the drinks that laid the foundation for today's cocktail culture. As bartenders dusted off century-old recipe books and rediscovered forgotten techniques, classics like the Negroni, Boulevardier, and Last Word [...] The post 10 Lesser-Known Cocktails Every Bartender Should Know appeared first on Chilled Magazine .
