Audrey Saunders on Clubhouse

Bio

Godmother of the Craft Cocktail
Renaissance
✨🥂🍸🥂✨

🌟🍸🌟Pegu Club, NYC
A bar, world-renowned for pioneering the modern craft cocktail movement and for advancing mixology into the 21st century. Pegu also spawned a number of the finest mixologists in the U.S. 🇺🇸
“The Harvard of Cocktails”
- NY Times✨

🌟James Beard Awards
2x Finalist - Best Bar Program

🌟Tales of the Cocktail
Spirited Awards:

✨🏆✨Best American Bar

✨🏆✨Worlds Best Bar

✨🏆✨Worlds Best
Bartender

✨🏆✨Best Bar Mentor

✨🏆✨Pioneer Award

✨🏆✨Helen David Lifetime
Achievement Award

Bon Appetit Magazine:
✨🏆✨Best Wine & Spirits
Professional

Esquire Magazine
🌟Best Bar, New York

Time Out, NY Awards
🌟Best New Bar

🏵17th Year - Beverage Chair
NYC Citymeals-on-Wheels
Chef’s Tribute charity, raised $750k+

🏵Former Beverage Chair,
Share Our Strength / Taste of the Nation charity, NY

🏵Les Dames D’Escoffier
NY Chapter, former member

🥳Some of my cocktails:
🍹Old Cuban
🍹Gin-Gin Mule
🍹Little Italy
🍹Earl Grey MarTEAni
🍹Tantris Sidecar
🍹French Pearl
🍹Intro to Aperol
🍹Cucumber-Mint Creole
🍹Dreamy Dorini Smoking Martini
🍹Madeira Martinez
🍹Falling Leaves
🍹Eve

🎭Things I’ve done, both good & bad:

✈️As a former skydiver, I used to jump out of perfectly good airplanes.

🗻I’ve climbed to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro,

🛥and captained 60’ yachts.

🤫🙀🏊‍♀️I once went swimming in Rockefeller Center’s fountain under the watchful eye of Prometheus, 👀

👑attended to Royalty,

🚜 and operated heavy machinery in midtown Manhattan.  

🌱👩🏼‍🌾 Studied Permaculture design with Toby Hemenway, Larry Santoyo and Geoff Lawton 🌞🌾🌻

🐟I also make a pretty mean Salmon Mousse (my mom’s recipe)

📚Last but not least, just began working on a big, fat mixology book 🤓📖

Former Work Places & Mentors:

Blackbird, NY
✨Dale DeGroff, without him I wouldn’t be where I am today.

Bemelmans Bar at The Carlyle Hotel, NYC
✨Peter French
✨Albert Herrera
✨Joel Freyberg
✨Jean-Louis Dumonet
✨Roger Rice
✨Greg Dinella
✨James McBride
✨Siobhan O’Leary
✨Marcy Lieberman
✨Jean-Marie Dubois
✨Paul Goldenberg

Waterfront Ale House, NYC & BK
✨Sam Barbieri
✨Cory Hill
✨Ralph Yedinak

Beacon Restaurant, NYC
✨Waldy Malouf
✨Marie Maher

Tonic Restaurant, NYC
✨Joe Fortunado
✨Steve Tzolis