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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 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 as well. The bar is ... [...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 late 20th and early 21st century characterized by a revival and re-prioritization of traditional recipes and methods in the bar industry, especially in the United States. The renaissance was followed by innovation and new techniques, and the movement has spread globally, now forming part of global cuisine. The renaissance spanned from the late 1980s into the late 2010s, starting with isolated bars and bartenders in Manhattan, New York City, initially Dale DeGroff at the reopened Rainbow Room in 1987; see for more. A stricter range of the heyday is 2003 to 2017: 2003 saw the first craft cocktail conference, Tales of the Cocktail, while by 2017, high-quality ingredients, techniques, and liquors began to be ubiquitous in bars across the United States, leading writers to declare the renaissance over. History The cocktail renaissance spanned from the early 2000s through 2017 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
