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Dale DeGroff (born September 21, 1948, Rhode Island), also known as "the King of Cocktails" or "King Cocktail", is an American bartender and author. The New York Times in 2015 called DeGroff "one of the world's foremost cocktail experts", and wrote that his book The Craft of the Cocktail is considered an essential bartending reference. [1]
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It's Dale who is almost single-handedly credited with introducing bars to the idea of fresh juices, it's Dale who taught many of the other most influential bartenders of the new golden age of cocktails we are living in, those who are famous themselves to the extent that we know them by their first names only, like Sasha, Audrey and Dushan. It's Dal...
He is highlighting the fact the contemporary craft cocktail movement is almost pathetically focused not just on a few urban areas in the world, but a few particular areas within those cities and probably - truly - just a handful of bars within each clutch. "Think about it: 90 per cent of bartenders still have soda guns in their bars. The things I'm...
After a six-year spell in Los Angeles, where Dale tended bar at the Hotel Bel-Air (his training involved methodically cleaning the bar's precious bottles - "Of course, I would smell them and sip them too, I tasted every fucking thing there. They knew that"), Dale was back in New York and working for Joe Baum again. That moment, he says, was when he...
Rainbow Room's reopening went down a storm with the press, and even if it was Joe pulling the strings, it was Dale, now aged 39, who got the credit. "We had an Art Deco restoration, a revolving stage, fancy glassware and the 26 hardest cocktails you have ever seen. There were no other cocktail lists anywhere to speak of. I wasn't nervous though, I ...
Just before we get too melancholy, we wrap up with a few quick-fire questions sent in by our readers. 1. Blue Drinks: Discuss. "I like the Blue Hawaii - it has sentimental value. Blue drinks get an undeserved hard rap." 2. If you could pick any combination of bar, bartender and drink from any time in history, for his last drink on earth, where/who/...
Learn about Dale DeGroff, the influential bartender who pioneered the craft cocktail movement and wrote The Essential Cocktail and The Craft of the Cocktail. Discover his career, achievements, and views on the state of the industry and its future.
Dale DeGroff, The New Craft Of The Cocktail, 2020. See Cosmopolitan cocktail history for Dale's role in the development of this contemporary classic.
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Oct 5, 2020 · Learn about Dale DeGroff, the legendary craft mixologist who revived the art of classic cocktails at The Rainbow Room and inspired a generation of bartenders. Discover his claim to fame, his signature drinks, and his legacy in the modern cocktail movement.
Learn how Dale DeGroff revived classic cocktails and created a new menu for the Rainbow Room in 1987. Read his stories of working with Joe Baum, Benny Goodman, and celebrities at the iconic venue.
Aug 3, 2014 · Credited with fathering the modern cocktail movement while behind the stick at New York’s legendary Rainbow Room, Dale DeGroff has been a fixture of the bar industry for more than three decades. We spoke with DeGroff about a hot-button topic dear to his cocktail-loving heart: hospitality.
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Jun 30, 2015 · Dale DeGroff is one of the world’s foremost cocktail experts. His book “The Craft of the Cocktail,” published by Clarkson Potter in 2002, is regarded as an essential bartending...
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