a note from the founders

Welcome to San Francisco Cocktail Week 2011! This is our FIFTH annual celebration of the cocktail culture that helped establish cocktail culture in general, worldwide, and continues to lead its development today. Five years go by quickly, but a lot has happened since we first decided to throw a few parties and help raise awareness about what our bartenders were doing across the Bay Area. We even established our very own Cocktail Bill Boothby Center for the Beverage Arts, a facility for educating and entertaining the public about this great culture. We've grown, the culture has grown and the momentum has grown.

This year we are very excited to have engaged a broad team of professionals to make our little fete even better. We'll promote the talents of the bartenders that have honed their skills and become shining new stars, while we honor the leaders that have gotten us here. We'll embrace our Indian Summer weather in new ways with cocktails in hand and we'll revisit some of our successful programs of the past. Restaurants and bars from across the region will embrace the energy while talented bartenders and enthusiastic visitors from around the West (and beyond) will grace our bars, events and hotels. Five will prove to be a great number for San Francisco Cocktail Week. We look forward to all it will bring and to seeing you out and about. Maybe even five times.

Cheers,
H, Duggan and Jeff