Sugar at East Hotel’s Andrew Lue takes home the title for the 2017 Regional Finals for the USBG’s Most Imaginative Bartender Competition by Bombay Sapphire.

Today, some South Florida’s best bartenders in Miami got together for USBG’s Most Imaginative Bartender Competition Regional Final at Beaker & Grey. Ten bartenders competed for the chance to head to London to compete in the finals.  Competitors were from some of the best bars in South Florida and also a finalist from the Carnival

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The 2017 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Award Finalists are out & Miami is all over the place!

We are looking forward to Tales of the Cocktail here at Spirited Miami and had our share of nominee writing last month.  What a pleasure to see some of the incredible names that help shape Miami’s cocktail culture and beyond. Congratulations to all the finalists! These nominees were chosen from more than 1000 submissions for

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Raising the Bar (Expanded Version) via Edible South Florida

We had the opportunity to sit down with Mo Lacayo for Edible South Florida.  We got to see what inspires him and some of the extraordinary projects he has underway. Raising the Bar (written for Edible South Florida) As we sit down with Mauricio “Mo” Lacayo, we settle into a beautiful breakfast in the heart

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Mezcal Viejo Indecente hosts competition to take bartenders on a journey to Oaxaca at Bitter Truth, today at 6:30pm.

We’re big fans of mezcal, so when Miami’s best bartenders come together for a competition we have to attend. Chilled Magazine and Mezcal Viejo Indecente have teamed up to showcase Miami’s best bartenders at Bitter Truth this evening presenting their best mezcal cocktails. The first round finalists of the “South Florida Mixes with Mezcal Viejo

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Our 2017 stops for Cinco De Mayo in Miami!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year!  We’re kidding (kind of), but we are walking into some interesting drinking days starting with May the 4th be with you, Cinco De Mayo, and lastly Derby Day. Here are our picks to make your tequila and beer drinking day a bit more fun.    OLLA, El

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