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1 month ago | 
marketwatchmag.com | Sally Kral |Janice Bailon
The Margarita has been the best-selling cocktail in the United States for at least a decade and many bartenders attribute its popularity to its simple and delicious nature. “The Margarita is refreshing, easy, and uncomplicated for the most part—you can easily make it at home with minimal ingredients but also get one excellently crafted when you go out,” says Janice Bailon, bar manager at Leyenda in Brooklyn, New York.
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1 month ago | 
marketwatchmag.com | Sally Kral
Franklin Coquito Ingredients 1½ ounces orange peel and sugar-infusedPlanteray Original Dark rum¹;1 ounce Cardamaro amaro;½ ounce St. Elizabeth allspice dram;1 ounce Coco Lopez cream of coconut;¼ ounce orange juice;Grated nutmeg and a cinnamon stick. Recipe In an ice-filled cocktail shaker, combine rum, amaro, allspice dram, cream of coconut, and orange juice. Shake and strain into an ice-filled rocks glass. Garnish with grated nutmeg and a cinnamon stick.
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2 months ago | 
marketwatchmag.com | Erin Ashford |Sally Kral |Irvin Rivas |Chris Carron
Over the past roughly 20 years, gin has developed tremendously thanks to the craft distilling boom. There are now thousands of brands available from producers around the world, and seemingly endless styles of the spirit. Beyond the use of juniper, the rules for gin production leave room for plenty of experimentation with different botanicals and flavors. Still, many consumers have misconceptions about gin.
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2 months ago | 
marketwatchmag.com | Sally Kral
Rae Doyle grew up in St. Louis, but she really came into her own as a hospitality professional in Des Moines, Iowa. “I started honing my bartending skills and spirits knowledge while I was general manager of the locally beloved Alba,” she says.
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2 months ago | 
airportxnews.com | Sally Kral
Airport spa operator Be Relax has announced the reopening of its refurbished spa in Connector D and a new spa location in Connector A at Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT).
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Mar 16, 2025 | 
marketwatchmag.com | Sally Kral
Cesar Valdivia and his family moved from their native Mexico to Missouri in 1999 and in 2005, when he was 21, they opened a small Mexican restaurant there. “Working there was a rewarding yet challenging experience—so many lessons learned,” he says. With five years in the family business under his belt, Valdivia moved to Maryland in 2010 and worked as a bartender and part-time manager at a small restaurant on the Eastern Shore.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
marketwatchmag.com | Meaghan Dorman |Ana Luísa Moraes |Kevin Nguyen |Sally Kral
The simple yet sophisticated Martini has never truly left the cocktail stage since its inception 100-plus years ago, notes Charles Joly, bar partner at Virgin Hotels New York. “Even before other craft cocktails saw a resurgence, you could find people sipping Martinis at steak houses across the country,” he says. “The return to a very classic Martini service came along with the modern cocktail renaissance in the 2000s.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
marketwatchmag.com | Sally Kral
Nicole Giampino has known she wanted to be a bartender since she was 21, but when she asked her boss at the sports bar where she worked as a server about the possibility, he told her she’d never be good at it. Discouraged, she went back to college for a year—but when her mom got sick, she moved back home to Portland, Maine, and started bartending at nightclubs and dive bars. Thankfully, her mom recovered and encouraged her to explore options outside of her home state.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
airportxnews.com | Sally Kral
Editor’s Note: The September issue of Airport Experience News includes a feature article on how luxury brands are repositioning amidst general decline in airport specialty retail. Below is an abridged version of the article. For full access to the article, please log in, subscribe, or check your printed edition of the September issue. Consumer shopping habits have changed drastically in recent years, and this is particularly clear in airports.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
marketwatchmag.com | Maxime Daniel |Jacob Smith |Camille Ko |Sally Kral
Though the U.S. Treasury Department’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) has yet to render a decision on whether to recognize American single malt whiskey as a specific category with its own distinct designations, the category is growing rapidly. There are now more than 200 U.S. producers of the whiskey represented by the American Single Malt Whiskey Commission (ASMWC), the trade group that started in 2016 with just nine founding member distilleries.
