Moderators
Founder, Quixotic Projects
Josh Fontaine is a founder and partner in Quixotic Projects, an unlikely Paris-based hospitality company, along with Adam Tsou and Carina Soto Velasquez. Starting with Candelaria (currently #12 on the World’s 50 Best Bars list and four-time TOTC “Best International Cocktail Bar...
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Speakers
Moltkes Bar & Simply Cocktails
The driving force and vision behind the renowned Moltke’s Bar and the manager of concept, logistics and education at Copenhagen Spirits and Cocktails. Although both projects achieved success they were ultimately shut down. Valuing professionalism and transparency, this was done...
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Co-Owner, Milady's, Clover Club, & Leyenda
Julie Reiner is the co-founder of world-renowned cocktail bars, Clover Club and Leyenda in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, and Milady’s in Soho. She is also the author of The Craft Cocktail Party: Delicious Drinks for Every Occasion (2015). Julie has been elevating the cocktail scene...
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Beverage Director, Fox Restaurant Concepts
Mat Snapp is currently the Beverage Director of Fox Restaurant Concepts in charge of creative development, standards, practices, training and implementation. In this capacity he oversees forty-four bar programs and twelve seasonally rotating cocktail and beer menus. Mat has been with...
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Sponsors
Founded in 2002, Tales of the Cocktail® has grown from a small gathering of cocktail lovers into the world’s premier cocktail festival. Each year the international spirits industry is welcomed to New Orleans for a week of seminars, tastings, networking events and much more. With...
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