Nightclub & Bar Show 2017

Erick Castro initially built his cocktail empire at San Francisco's Rickhouse and Bourbon & Branch by searching for obscure recipes, methods and ingredients that originated prior to Prohibition. The bartending behemoth has created unique beverage programs that have earned a place on some of the nation’s most coveted lists, including Esquire's Best Bars in America, Food &... Read More →

Natalie is a small town girl from North Carolina who was living in Seattle in 2013 when she left her career job and made the decision to dedicate her life to building Beautiful Booze. She was hosting lots of themed dinners and parties where she was creating simple cocktails and each evening was being asked for the recipes by her guests, so she decided to start a blog where her friends could go online and re-create their favorite cocktails from... Read More →

Bob Peters is a Charlotte native, which makes him as rare and as special as the libations you will find behind his bar. With strong southern roots, Bob has always enjoyed the art of dining and taking care of friends. He is well known for his creative palate as well as for his ability to entertain.   Bob is the recipient of numerous awards, including most recently The Ritz-Carlton SABRE award for 2015 Global Bartender of the Year. In the... Read More →

If bartender backgrounds are always varied, Tenzin Samdo’s is still definitely less typical. He grew up in India, a Tibetan refugee after his parents escaped Chinese occupation. And he might have stayed in India, but his parents won a lottery to come to the United States, landing Samdo in America in 1996, a high school student in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Being in close proximity to Boston’s bar scene didn’t make him... Read More →