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  • 10 Delicious Ways to Celebrate Bourbon Heritage Month (HuffPost)

    10 Delicious Ways to Celebrate Bourbon Heritage Month (HuffPost)

    September 14, 2011

    Via Huff Post September is Bourbon Heritage Month, thanks to a unanimous Senate vote back in 2007, and you don’t have to plan a trip along the Kentucky Bourbon Trail to celebrate. From bourbon-spiked bites at brunch to bourbon cocktails, we can’t think of a better way to toast America’s native spirit than with these 10 recipes. And if you do plan to visit Kentucky this month, be sure to check out the Kentucky Bourbon Festival playing host to all

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  • NY-LON Pop Up Bar RECAP Pics

    NY-LON Pop Up Bar RECAP Pics

    September 6, 2011

    Technorati Tags: Andres Aleman, featured, NYLON cocktail pop up bar, Ro Patel, Tampa bars

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  • “NY-LON” Pop Up Cocktail Bar (Tampa)

    “NY-LON” Pop Up Cocktail Bar (Tampa)

    September 1, 2011

    This week a had the great fortune to be contacted by the owner one of the best cocktail bars in Florida, Ro Patel from Ciro’s Speakeasy located in Tampa. He had a fantastic idea to open a temporary bar while Ciro’s would be closed for a two week vacation. This Cocktail Pop Up bar would have a completly different food and cocktail menu and the bar would have a different feel then it’s speakeasy theme. In all, it would be

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  • Guest Bartending @ Ciro’s Speakeasy

    Guest Bartending @ Ciro’s Speakeasy

    May 15, 2011

    A couple of days ago I had the chance to come in to Ciro’s speakeasy and guest bartend with my own cocktail menu where I featured six cocktails, two of them classics and the other four my creations. Among them the classic Vieux Carré and the Improved Sandia Collins a variation on a cocktail I had created for the Mr. Chow menu. The cocktails were well received by the guests that night. I guess I’ll be coming back there for

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  • Interview at Ciro’s with Ro Patel

    Interview at Ciro’s with Ro Patel

    March 7, 2011

    One of the great things about tending bar is that your always  hearing about what’s happening in the industry directly from spirit distillers, bar owners, liquor reps, brand ambassadors, other bartenders etc.. In this case, a few months ago, a colleague sat at my bar and told me about some bar in, of all the places….Tampa, that was making some noise in the industry. He said that they were doing all the right things good bartenders look for: good booze,

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