The Restaurant Guys
The Restaurant Guys is one of the original food and wine podcasts, launched in 2005 by restaurateurs Mark Pascal and Francis Schott.
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Dale DeGroff: The King of Cocktails Changes the Game Again
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The Banter
The Guys recall a very special cocktail they made prior to bartending…and they didn’t use a punch bowl.
The Conversation
The Restaurant Guys host world-changing cocktailian Dale DeGroff who walks us through the history of the cocktail in America. The episode ends with suggestions for cocktails using Dale’s amaro and a toast with old friends.
The Inside Track
The Guys met Dale at an informal lunch group called The Red Meat Club back in 1993 where Dale claimed that cocktails can be just as complex and interesting as wine. Not convinced, The Guys went to The Rainbow Room, where they were schooled by the King of Cocktails himself. They left convinced.
Dale helped them create New Jersey's first craft-cocktail program at Stage Left Steak and inaugurated it with a Degroff Cocktail Dinner there in 1994! The cocktail program there is now the oldest craft-cocktail program in America. The King and The Guys have remained fast friends and collaborators all these decades! All hail The King!
Bio
Dale DeGroff is the author of best-selling cocktail books: The Essential Cocktail, winner of the 2009 Tales of the Cocktail Spirit Award for Best New Cocktail/Bartending Book, and The Craft of the Cocktail and its revision The New Craft of the Cocktail Book which is the best-selling cocktail book of all time!
He is the founding president of the Museum of the American Cocktail in New Orleans, founded in 2005. He is also a partner and consultant in the Beverage Alcohol Resource (BAR) group.
The James Beard Foundation awarded DeGroff the 2009 Wine & Spirits Professional Award, and in 2015 inducted him into the Who's Who in Food & Beverage in America. He received the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award from Nightclub & Bar Magazine, the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Spirited Award from Tales of the Cocktail Foundation. He continues to teach, lead and tell the story of the cocktail.
He is the co-creator of DeGroff Bitter Aperitivo and DeGroff New World Amaro.
Info
Dale DeGroff bitters, aperitivo and amaro
https://www.stageleftwineshop.com/websearch_results.html?kw=dale+degroff
Dale DeGroff’s books https://www.amazon.com/s?k=dale+degroff&crid=3UQ9BF5KAGSJ6&sprefix=dale+degrof%2Caps%2C420&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
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