I'm internet hosting a sequence of cocktail e book associated occasions in San Francisco! Y'all know I like drink books – finding out them, studying them, and generally even writing them. 

The sequence shall be hosted on Monday afternoons on the Hotaling workplaces close to the TransAmerica Pyramid, roughly as soon as monthly. The timing was chosen as it’s often day for bartenders on their days off. 

The primary seminar options particular visitor Marcovaldo Dionysos, a legend within the San Francisco bar neighborhood. This kick-off occasion is April eighth, 2024 and can happen from 1-2:30PM. 

Enroll right here, after which if you can also make this primary occasion please rsvp on the hyperlink on the affirmation web page once you submit. 

You most likely know bartender Dionysos from his stints at Absinthe, Smuggler’s Cove, and Comstock Saloon, amongst different San Francisco venues, however do you know he’s been gathering classic cocktail books since 1991? Earlier than there have been fashionable reprints and even ebooks, Marco was going direct to the sources to study concerning the cocktails of previous.

On this seminar, Marco will share how he acquired began gathering (to find out about one particular cocktail that you just most likely received’t be capable to guess) and his experience on what are the hardest-to-find and most dear books, essentially the most fascinating ones, stunning scores, misplaced treasures, and highlights from his roughly 400-book assortment that features an 1862 first printing of Jerry Thomas’ Bar-Tender’s Information amongst many different gems.

Please join the Hotaling Hospitality Hub e-newsletter to learn to RSVP for this and future occasions. In the event you’re not native or can’t make this discuss, you will get on the mailing checklist anyway to find out about future occasions domestically and in different markets, and for all kinds of summaries and movies within the works.

Enroll right here!

Future seminars, topic to vary: 

• Accumulating Classic Cocktail Books with Marcovaldo Dionysos
• Highlights and Novelties from the Hotaling Cocktail Guide Assortment
• Researching Cocktail Historical past On-line: Sources and Methods
• The Most Necessary (and Helpful) Drinks Books of All Time!
• Hidden? Figures. Historic Cocktail Writing by Girls and Folks of Colour
• Cocktail CSI: Trailing a Cocktail Suspect Via Classic Drink Books

I hope to see you at a seminar or two.