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Zig Zag Café
Zig Zag Café is a craft cocktail bar and restaurant in Seattle, Washington. Established in 1999, the bar is considered one of the best in the United States, helping lead the craft cocktail movement. From 2002 to 2011, noted bartender Murray Stenson worked at Zig Zag Café, and created innovative cocktails as well as reintroduced the pre-Prohibition-era Last word (cocktail), Last Word cocktail to the public and to bars around the world. Description Housed in the 1910-built Fix-Madore Building, on Western Avenue, the bar is situated on a hill beneath and behind Pike Place Market, along the Pike Street Hill Climb, a partially hidden stairwell leading down to Seattle's piers and Elliott Bay waterfront. The building is considered part of Pike Place Market, and is connected to the main market via a footbridge. Zig Zag is dimly lit. It has tables as well as a dozen barstools, almost always filled by 5 p.m. on nights the bar opens. A small outside patio is situated outside the building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craft Cocktail
The craft cocktail movement is a social movement spurred by the cocktail renaissance, a period of time in the 21st century characterized by a revival and re-prioritization of traditional recipes and methods in the bar industry. History The cocktail renaissance spanned from 2004 through 2019. It has no clear single origin, though it was largely influenced by three previous food-and-beverage movements: the Culinary Revolution of the 1970s and 1980s (a reaction to the processed foods of postwar America, which also influenced the wine and beer industries), the rise of the craft beer industry, and the rising popularity of the internet and social media. The movement took inspiration from the last golden age of cocktails. Among the movement's early pioneers was bartender Dale DeGroff, who in the 1980s began popularizing classic cocktails and creating new ones with premium ingredients and fresh-squeezed juice (long out of fashion at the time). DeGroff was working for Joe Baum, who himse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
