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Who | Dean Jarvis
Where | Melbourne, Australia but currently at sea around the Bahamas
Current Bar | Bar Manager at the Walt Disney Company
Past Bar(s) | MBE, Lui Bar, Jungle Boy, Palm Royale, Rum Diary, Hats + Tatts CBD, Covid19EADcharity, I Hart Rum festival owner
Favourite Spirit | Rum
Favourite Juice | Acai
Favourite Classic Cocktail | The Avenue
First Classic Cocktail you ever had | Japanese Slipper
Favourite Part of the Job | Creating immersive experiences
Favourite After Work Drink | Gin Palace Martini
Favourite bar in the world | Overstory (New York, NY)
Best known for | Mediating most of the rockstar shifts to ensure shifts are paid legitimately, training + mentoring and trying to leave the industry in a better position than we found it.
Favourite “at work” memory | Competing daily with colleagues who are leagues better than me to all push each other to operate at the highest level
What’s your favourite movie? Jurassic Park
Favourite thing about your city? The multicultural nature of our food and beverage scene and the evolution of art + Architecture, influenced by the gold-rush victorian era of Melbourne. Oh and the Parks + Rivers
What was the last photo that you took? Of a bottle of limoncello I procured from the Legends at Danny Boy Distillery in Geelong, Victoria.
Where is one place that you have never been but would like to travel to? Maccu Picchu
Any claims to fame? Philanthropy award at Tales, elevating the independent small batch craft spirit scene in our state with our RUM and separate AGAVE events. And the Cuban Missile Crisis drink- A modern Classic
Aperitivo or Digestivo? Aperitivo
Soda or Tonic? FT Tonic
Trader Vic or Donn Beach? Donn Beach
Egg Whites or Vegan Foamer? Egg Whites
Are you available for freelance gigs? When I’m not working other contracts but will always listen to a pitch
Find them: Instagram
Media: I Hart Rum 2018 – Melbourne’s Premiere Rum Festival