This month, Dan Gregory pays tribute to the late Gaz Regan with an homage to two of his cocktails – the Tart Gin Cooler and the Copper Swan Cocktail
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With the passing of Gary Regan last weekend, the bar world lost one of its…
Gary ‘gaz’ Regan wrote about drinks and bartending with authority, but was never pompous and — perhaps most importantly — was never a bore.
I was in Boston a couple of months back, attending the Boston Cocktail Summit. It was a grand affair that culminated, from my point of view, in me being roasted, Friars Club-style, by some of my best friends in the business. They were far too kind to me.
This week sees the Just One Shift initiative taking place. Starting from Monday the 8th and rolling all the way through to Sunday 14th, bartenders from Australia and all across the globe will take part in the plan to raise $250,000 USD over a one-week period…
I keep a file of cocktail recipes sent to me by bartenders that I deem worthy of testing. The testing, however, is becoming more and more time consuming, simply because few bartenders in this second decade of the 21st century are content to use only readily available ingredients in their drinks.
A witch with which to sip By Gary Regan I’ve a witch living not too…
By Gaz Regan. “What do you like to mix with Cynar?” fellow cocktail scribe Warren Bobrow, who writes for the likes of Foodista.com and the Williams-Sonoma blog, asked me recently. And I had to admit that I’d never really fooled around with this Italian aperitif/digestif. It wasn’t entirely off my radar, though.
Salt is the savior for this savory Negroni By Gary Regan I recently asked my…
Touted as the sequel to Gaz Regan’s groundbreaking 2003 release, The Joy of Mixology, The Annual Manual has some serious shoe filling to do.
I’m certainly not old enough to have this piece come across as a “back in my day, we had it so tough” gospel speech. And I try never to be cynical about our industry and remain positive about where it’s heading.