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It’s simultaneously fun and sexy-and certainly one of the city’s best.įor Brian Addison’s full feature on Bar Envie’s inaugural menu, click here. The have a menu of alcoholic floats, which may not have necessarily a NOLA origin, but honor the city’s playful take on consuming boozy concoctions (like the famed slushee Irish coffee at Erin Rose in the French Quarters). Their version of a sazerac is a no-fuck-around version that is as NOLA as it gets while their play on the gin fizz-nodding to the man who created it himself, Henry Ramos, in 1888 at his bar, the Imperial Cabinet Saloon on Gravier Street-is a beautiful pink thanks to the addition of rhubarb.
But what it really harnesses is the fact that bar manager Mike Borowski (who also heads owners Geoff Rau and Chef Carlos Jurado’s other venture, Selva, which is also on this list) has a knack for creating quality concoctions.īorowski’s careful approach to taking on New Orleans is one that is to be respected, honoring NOLA’s legacy in spirits but playing to Long Beach’s sensibility and the space’s approach to food-meaning the interplay between “staying traditional” and “being playful” is outright awesome. It doesn’t hurt that Bar Envie was nationally recognized less than a year into opening-something Long Beach should be proud of no matter how the drink is shaken. It’s that her and Flores have created what could possibly be the perfect space for 4th Street that helps its evolve without making it feel too foreign.įor Brian Addison’s full feature on Baby Gee Bar for Eater LA, click here.
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Taking over what was formerly The Red Room, the tiny-but-mighty space’s owners (and fiancees), cocktail master Gianna Johns and Long Beach native Daniel Flores, are prime examples of what it means to take on a place that hadn’t really seen an update in decades in a community that is mightily protective of its own: You do the hard work-which ins’t just building the bar but fostering a sense of community, asking them what they want while intermixing what you want as an owner, and being kind.īaby Gee isn’t just amazing because Johns’s cocktails are stellar, where her well-honed palate avoids the all-too-common question of “What’s your spirit of choice?” and instead begs, “What’s your mood? What kind of flavors are you craving for your mood?” It isn’t just that.
Before hitting a half of year of business-hell, it literally just about to hit its three-month mark in business-Baby Gee Bar has already built up a loyal patronage and, in the midst of that short period, garnered national attention (thanks to the prestigious Tale of the Cocktail Foundation’s Spirited Awards having named the bar one of the Top 10 best new bars in the U.S.
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