Then I’d walk past them to my room, throw piles of money on the bed, and stand over $200. …she’d come home to find these revelers “naked and vomiting in the hallway. Not one to shy away from change, Reiner thought it was the right decision to join Fedroff and find her voice in New York’s soon-to-skyrocket cocktail scene. The cocktail lounges of a forward-thinking San Francisco were a perfect fit-that is, until her girlfriend Sue Fedroff (now her wife and business partner) got into grad school at New York University. “I had waited tables, but once I got behind the bar I was like, ‘Okay, this is for me.’ There’s a certain respect there you just don’t get on the floor.“įrustrated in San Francisco after scoring a “real job” she hated, she knew it was time to devote her multi-tasking prowess and innate sense of hospitality to the bar business. Working in a Tallahassee pub may not have been a glamorous route to slinging drinks, but it’s where Reiner knew she found her calling. One of the nation’s most esteemed bartenders, Hawaiian native Reiner is a craft-cocktail pioneer, having made her mark with New York bars Flatiron Lounge and Clover Club. That the industrious Reiner chose to supplement her roster of classes at Florida State University by pouring shots instead of throwing them back is not surprising. While she was hard at work bartending, Julie Reiner’s dormmates were “drinking their faces off.” After a long night behind the bar, she’d come home to find these revelers “naked and vomiting in the hallway.
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