Best of the West

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Thursday, September 22
6-9 p.m.
Location: Forum at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street, San Francisco
Tickets: $55 regular; $65 at the door

With guest bartenders from San Diego to Vancouver, this cocktail tour will showcase the mixology talents of bartenders across the West Coast. Showing guests the "Best of the West," each guest participant will offer a cocktail that uniquely represents their city and its cocktail culture - be it San Diego, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Portland, Seattle or Vancouver - and create signature cocktails with the challenge ingredients of passion fruit, grapefruit, basil, coffee, cucumbers, ginger, Absinthe and peach. Throughout the evening you’ll have fun cheering on the spirited competition while rolling the dice in lively games of chance, such as blackjack, roulette and poker, with chances to win cool prizes. Take a trip without setting foot on a plane, or be inspired to book your next vacation to visit these stars in their hometowns.

On tap to compete for your cocktail affection are:

  • Shawn Soole Victoria, Canada (Clive’s Classic Lounge)
  • Bryn Lumsden, Seattle (Rob Roy)
  • Ricky Gomez, Portland (Cocktailian NOLA)
  • Andrew Pollard, Las Vegas (Vesper)
  • Heidi Welniak, Las Vegas (US Bartender’s Guild)
  • Chris Dooley, Sacramento (Ella)
  • Dustin Haarstad, San Diego (Searsucker)
  • Adrian Biggs, Los Angeles (La Descarga)
  • Partners

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