Attendees laughed and shared ideas at the round table.
locally focused cocktail programs. Vizer noted that they can be expensive. McHugh added that he has seen local programs be so blindly local that some customers no longer want to visit them. Others were moving forward with the locally sourced trend. Schneider noted that she was consulting on a bar called Homestead, which was slated to open shortly, where all the
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ingredients would be grown on the roof. She added that it would have a limited period of months when it would be open. Attendees also noted that beer can skew as regional, if not
more so, than cocktails. Some also added that they were taking low-calorie cocktails off their lists. A few also commented that some of the recent focus on molecular cocktails has been driven in great part by local and groundbreaking bar the Aviary.
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