While the late Sasha Petraske of New York’s famed Milk & Honey created the original cocktail list for this speakeasy, Diaz is ushering in a new generation of drinks, bringing Cuban flare to a tiki favorite by honing in on freshness.

You can find Munive, Diaz, and Jimenez at Ranstead Room playing with fresh ingredients for light “aperitiki” cocktails like the Ranstead Daiquiri #1. The Spanish and Latino Bar Gang is a group of Philly’s best bartenders commanding Rittenhouse’s best craft cocktail bars. This is Sunday at a.bar, where Philadelphia’s Spanish and Latino bar pros are talking shit and dreaming up the city’s next hit cocktail.īartenders Damián Langarica, Nico Diaz, Diego Langarica, Kevin Castro, and Tony Jimenez on a night out with the Spanish and Latino Bar Gang. And since Diego Langarica is working at the Franklin tonight, it’s up to his older brother and a.bar’s bartender, Damián Langarica, to run the show and send his friends off with a boomerang. Later, when Munive and Jimenez’s Ranstead Room compadre Nico Diaz shows up, the conversation for the self-proclaimed Spanish and Latino Bar Gang drifts from future project schemes to splashy social events for big-name liquor brands to hot takes on the best-bar lists.

A surprise visit might come from Tony Jimenez, who’s had a long week splitting hours between 1 Tippling Place and Ranstead Room. Kevin Castro will walk over from Parc within the hour, making the most of finishing his shift with a Sazerac or dirty martini. It’s Sunday afternoon and Margarito “Rito” Munive has posted his weekly rallying cry on Instagram from his usual front bar seat at a.bar in AKA Rittenhouse Square.

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