Toby Maloney is a James Beard Award-winning bartender with over
twenty-five years of experience in the bar industry, from dive bars
to Milk & Honey, Flatiron Lounge, and Pegu Club, as well as spots
in Nashville, Minneapolis, and beyond. He is currently the head
mixologist at The Violet Hour in Chicago, and partner and beverage
director at Mother's Ruin in Chicago.
Emma Janzen is a journalist, editor, and photographer specializing
in all things drinks and design. Currently the digital content
editor for Imbibe magazine, she co-authored The Way of the Cocktail
with Chicago bartender Julia Momose, and received a James Beard
Award nomination for her first book, Mezcal- The History, Craft &
Cocktails of the World's Ultimate Artisanal Spirit.
“The Bartender’s Manifesto is the best thing to happen to cocktail
lovers since Dale DeGroff’s The Craft of the Cocktail! Toby Maloney
has worked behind the stick at some of the most respected cocktail
bars in the United States and has dedicated his life to
hospitality—in this comprehensive guide, he brilliantly explains
the techniques used by the best bartenders to create award-winning
drinks. This book should be required reading for both up-and-coming
bartenders and home enthusiasts alike who want to know the secrets
behind crafting impeccable libations.”—Julie Reiner, Cofounder of
Clover Club, Leyenda, and Social Hour Cocktails
“Like skilled alpinists, Maloney and Janzen lead the reader from
the trailhead of mixology up a steep path to the base camp of
bartending; pointing all along at the summit; where service and
hospitality converge in history. Toby’s The Violet Hour is a
mountain few will have the fortitude to scale, but you can admire
it faithfully from a distance thanks to the meticulously
transcribed recipes and profane tales of those who have. This is
the Everest of bartending books.”—Jim Meehan, author of Meehan’s
Bartender Manual and The PDT Cocktail Book
“Toby Maloney is one of the OGs of the modern renaissance in
bartending and drink mixing. Maloney is as crusty as he is
creative, and it’s enormously useful to finally have his approach
to the craft on record, particularly in a form as entertaining as
The Bartender’s Manifesto.”—David Wondrich, author of Imbibe and
editor in chief of the Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails
“If anyone is equipped to write a bartender’s manifesto, it’s Toby
Maloney, who has worked at or launched some of the best cocktail
bars of the century. There’s no nitty-gritty he doesn’t get down to
here. He and co-author Janzen discuss everything from bartending
philosophies to a cocktail’s narrative arc; season the text
with folksy maxims and tall tales; and tie in figures from Olmsted
to Thompson. Topping it all may be the most specific
drink-building instructions to grace any cocktail manual to date.
If cocktails are art, as Maloney asserts, here’s your
canvas.”—Robert Simonson, cocktail writer for The New York
Times and author of A Proper Drink
“As Pegu Club’s first head bartender, Toby was already a real
leader and gifted visionary in his own right. During his tenure, we
shared numerous technical conversations, and it is an utter joy to
see them so intuitively developed here. Without question, this
book reflects a real mastery of technique and understanding. Pure
poetry to read.”—Audrey Saunders, founder of the Pegu Club
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