1. ‣“Retro Cocktails Perfect for Valentine’s Day, Part Deux, VintageAndFlea.com

  2. ‣“Reader Recipes: Summer Sipping” by Rachel Phillips, foodnetwork.com

  3. ‣“Splashy Cocktails: 10 Reasons Why You Should Hire a Mixologist Now” by Michael Sanson, Restaurant Hospitality

  4. ‣“The Best Kind of Authors Are the Ones Who Get You Drunk” by Erin L. Cox, Publishing Perspectives

  5. ‣“Burgers on a Brooklyn Balcony” by Alex Pandel, Another Brooklyn Blog

  6. ‣“Latter-Day Corn Likkers” by Hanna Raskin, Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine, Spirits of Appalachia issue, featuring our Catdaddy Carolina Moonshine recipes for the Kitty Carlisle, Catbird Seat, and Kitty Hawk

  7. ‣“New Cocktail for #1 Bestseller’s Launch Party,” The Things We Get, Taste Magazine Cincinnati

  8. ‣“New Cocktail Created for #1 Bestseller’s Launch Party,” Anything & Everything, Leader-Post

  9. ‣“Just An Online Minute . . . Can You Handle The Sobieski Truth . . . Serum?” by Kelly Samardak, Just an Online Minute, MediaPost

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Our love of cocktails, cooking, and entertaining brought the two of us together, and we’ve been shaking and stirring, simmering and sauteing together now for 10 years.


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About Steve & Paul { Cocktail Buzz, food & beverage consultants }

PAUL ZABLOCKI


Some of My Favorite Foods: Red Beets, Anything from the Pig, Walnuts, Eggs, Cheese, Lamb, Tomato Paste, Greens

Favorite Five Cocktails: Manhattan, Negroni, Oriental, Old-Fashioned, Mint Julep

Favorite Restaurants: See Steve’s list

Some of My Favorite Drinking Establishments: Death & Company (NYC), Mayahuel (NYC), Jack the Horse Tavern (Brooklyn), Milk & Honey (NYC), Little Branch (NYC), Brandy Library (NYC), The Jake Walk (Brooklyn), Hotel Delmano (Brooklyn), The Vanderbilt (Brooklyn), Weather Up (Brooklyn), Clover Club (Brooklyn), Absinthe (San Francisco), The Slanted Door (San Francisco), The Violet Hour (Chicago)

Favorite Quotation: “I never did trust a man who didn’t drink.” — Maggie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Tennessee Williams)

STEVE SCHUL


Some of My Favorite Foods: Red Beets, Anything from the Ocean, Bacon, Chocolate, Ice Cream, Avocados, Lamb

Favorite Five Cocktails: Manhattan, Margarita, Vesper, Old-Fashioned, Mint Julep

Some of My Favorite Restaurants: Babbo (NYC), Blue Hill (NYC), al di là (Brooklyn), Convivium Osteria (Brooklyn), Craft (NYC), Perilla (NYC), The Vanderbilt (Brooklyn), Scotch and Sirloin (Wichita), L’Express (Montréal), Esca (NYC), Momofuku (NYC), Arrows (Ogunquit), Gates BBQ (Kansas City), The Mad Platter (Nashville), Roaring Fork (Scottsdale)

Favorite Drinking Establishments: See Paul’s list

Favorite Quotation: “Here’s to alcohol: The cause of — and solution to — all life’s problems.” — Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

Steve Schul is one half of Cocktail Buzz. He photographs both cocktails and food and, with his partner Paul Zablocki, creates demonstration videos pairing cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. Steve loves mixology and cooking, creating new recipes, and exploring new ingredients and techniques, as well as giving the classics their due. Raised on a farm in Kansas with a massive organic garden, Steve learned to appreciate seasonal comestibles at an early age. He brings a bit of Kansas to Brooklyn, albeit more humbly, by growing organic herbs and veggies on his rooftop garden for his kitchen and bar creations.
 
Paul Zablocki is one half of Cocktail Buzz. He writes about imbibing both cocktails and food and, with his partner Steve Schul, creates demonstration videos pairing cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. Paul loves to tinker in his kitchen, which in his small apartment, doubles as the bar, and likes to mix obscure, unloved and forgotten liqueurs and spirits. As a result of this tinkering, he placed third in the USA Pears/Imbibe Magazine pear cocktail contest. Originally from Connecticut, Paul now resides in Brooklyn, where you can find him barbecuing on his terrace. He will grill almost anything once (except bell peppers), and will always tend bar for his fellow friendly tipplers.
 

  1. ‣Our post “Gussy Up Zucchini with This Easy Spring-Through-Summer Cocktail Party Recipe” was featured on the New York Times Diner’s Journal: What We’re Reading, April 24, 2012

  2. ‣Many of our cocktails, such as “Brooklyn Nonino,” “Bramble Punch,” and the “Black Manhattan,” are featured on Gojee Drinks; our “Big Apple” was featured as the Drink of the Week

  3. ‣Chosen as one of the “49 Blogs for Creating the Perfect Cocktail” by April Davis, Accredited Degree Online (click here for list and editorial)

  4. ‣Wikio Ranking as one of the top Cocktails and Spirits blogs

  5. ‣Chosen as a Foodista Drink Blog of the Day, September 12, 2010; March 11, 2011

  6. ‣Chosen as one of the “50 Amazing Mixology Blogs” by Online Degree (click here for list and editorial)

  7. ‣“Love Potion #44” cocktail, Gaz’s Big Cocktail Competition 2010, Runner Up, Rittenhouse Rye Division (click here for recipe)

  8. ‣“Langdon’s Folly” cocktail, created for Doubleday Books for launch party of Dan Brown’s new Robert Langdon novel, The Lost Symbol (read about it here)

  9. ‣“The Gondolier” cocktail, created for Creative Alternatives of New York (read about it here)

  10. ‣Spirited Lunch with Bourbon House, New Orleans, and Piedmont Distillers at Tales of the Cocktail 2009 (read about it here and here)

  11. ‣Inside New Orleans, Live radio interview with Eric Asher, WIST AM

  12. ‣Tasting Room at Tales of the Cocktail 2009, with Piedmont Distillers (read about it here and here)

  13. ‣“Brooklyn Nonino” listed first on the New York Times City Room blog, August 12, 2008 (read it here)

  14. ‣“Oh Pear” cocktail, USA Pears/Imbibe Magazine Pear Cocktail Contest,Third Place (read about it here & here)

  15. ‣“Hard Candy” cocktail, created for Ars Nova Candyland-themed Holiday Party

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  1. ‣“Talking Tiki” in Edible Queens, Summer 2011

  2. ‣“The Wink and French 75” in “Happy Thanksgiving from Publishing Perpectives,” Publishing Perspectives

  3. ‣We write a monthly column, “Steve and Paul – Cocktail Buzz,” highlighting what we’re currently imbibing for Bar None Drinks