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Who | Darien Hamedani
Where | Montreal, Canada
Current Bar | Club Pelicano
Past Bar(s) | Stillife, Le Mal Necessaire, The Coldroom, Pub Wolf And Workman
Favourite Spirit | Tequila
Favourite Juice | Peach
Favourite Classic Cocktail | Margarita
Favourite Part of the Job | Creativity, community, and connection
Favourite After Work Drink | Beeeeer
Favourite at Home Drink | Radler
Favourite bar in the world | Baba Au Rum (Athens, Greece)
Best known for | Somehow making it work as an anglophone bartender in a French city.
Favourite “at work” memory | ‘Family time’ after closing the bar. Taking time to decompress and drink our staff beers before cleaning up for the night.
What do you collect? Menus! With permission of course.
Favourite thing about your city? That the bartending community is so close that I can send my favourite clients to go visit friends at several other establishments.
What was the last photo that you took? Drinks at El Pequeño
Where is one place that you have never been but would like to travel to? Mexico! For someone that loves tequila so much, I’m surprised I’ve never been.
Any claims to fame? I’ve travelled to several countries and ended up at seventeen out of fifty of the worlds best bars by myself to obtain a more hands on knowledge and understanding of spirits I work with and their origins. I also knit everything.
Prosecco or Cava? Cava
Angostura or Peychaud’s? Angostura
Singapore or San Francisco? Sinapore
Grapefruit or Pineapple? Pineapple
Are you available for freelance gigs? Absolutely!
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