How To Open A Bar For Dummies

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Monday April 8, 2013

A True Local Tells You How to Open a Bar
Five tips for breaking into the small-town bar industry from a veteran owner

You know how you're always saying (quietly, to yourself, so no one can hear you) that you want to open a Moulin Rouge!-themed bar? Well, thanks to a certain 25yr bar-owning vet who we ran into at SXSW, you finally can. Or, just a normal one that makes money and that people want to go to.


Pro tip No. 1: Don't call your bar "The Dictator" unless you want to be called a "dick". He's got four more, right this way...
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All of the Dinosaurs in Jurassic Park
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Zamas Hotel's International Chef Series

Typically when you're traveling to a place like the Zamas Hotel in Tulum, you're doing it for the beaches. So the fact that the legendary resort just kicked off a year-long series of guest chef & mixologist residencies is really just the icing on the flan. Mike Isabella of Graffiato in D.C.'s doing tropical Italian in March and Alicia Jenish of San Fran's Grand Cafe brings the brasserie in May. Other monthly participants include SF's Tacolicious and spirits consultants Bon Vivants.

Book your stay now and worry about what chef's going to be there when you are later
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