Blackbird

From Chanticleer Society
Revision as of 14:50, 12 December 2021 by DrinkBoy (talk | contribs) (Created page with "::So far, this is just some loose notes that need to be brought together for a proper writeup "The show is the same. Mr. DeGroff, who holds court during the week at lunch an...")
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
So far, this is just some loose notes that need to be brought together for a proper writeup


"The show is the same. Mr. DeGroff, who holds court during the week at lunch and Tuesdays through Saturdays in the evenings, likes to throw a lot of English into mixing a drink. And he still insists that fruit be squeezed fresh for every drink. This time around, though, Mr. DeGroff has created a millennium-minded cocktail menu that draws inspiration from the turn of the last century, when Americans liked their drinks fancy and fruity." - Blackbird was located at 60 East 49th Street, New York NY [1].

"But there’s a stage in DeGroff’s development which isn’t as well documented, and it’s that stage which may have been his most influential. For an action-packed nine months in 1999, DeGroff was—for the first and only time—a partner and proprietor of a bar of his own, the groundbreaking yet unremembered Blackbird; the bar which heralded the way for American bar culture." [2]

External Links

References

<references></references

  1. DINER'S JOURNAL - BlackBird Review by William Grimes (NYTimes, June 4th, 1999)
  2. How Dale DeGroff’s Epochal Blackbird Revitalized Cocktail Culture By Ben Schaffer, July 28, 2020