Mixologist with the “secret sauce” Lucas Winkler was born and raised in Poland. Getting into maturity, he pursued an schooling in Hospitality and Tourism Administration at Rhodes College in Greece.
Throughout his early years of bartending, he mastered each traditional and trendy cocktails, permitting him to develop a variety of abilities. With that skillset, he went on to finish quite a few internships on the prestigious Park Lodge in Athens, Sofitel Rhodes Lodge, and Kolibia Palace. Including sensible expertise to his already-sturdy basis of information accomplished Lucas as a mixologist, bringing his experience to a complete new degree.
Quick-forward to 2019, he relocated to the US and joined W South Seashore as a bartender, and finally turned the in-house mixologist. At the moment because the Common Supervisor, Winkler oversees the Dwelling Room Bar’s cocktail program.
W South Seashore is probably the most iconic W Lodge on this planet, situated within the coronary heart of Miami’s South Seashore. It’s a favourite amongst celebrities, world-travelers, and locals. Onsite there are two bars and two eating places. Craft cocktails are served within the Dwelling Room Bar, which is in the primary lounge. Then there’s Irma’s, an out of doors bar named after the 2017 hurricane. It’s an excellent spot for visitors to take pleasure in refreshing drinks within the Miami sunshine.
As for the eating places, W South Seashore has RWSB (Restaurant W South Seashore), a hidden gem for Tuscan delicacies, and Mr. Chow, genuine Chinese language delicacies.
For his beverage program at Dwelling Room Bar, Lucas focuses on a Miami-flavored theme. The picks encompass tropical fruits like pineapple, mangos, passionfruit, and coconut as the favourite.
Developing with cocktail concepts is a pure prevalence for Winkler. “I’m at all times discovering inspiration for cocktails in my day by day life and through my travels. I take that inspiration, perform some research, and check out it out. It’s by way of the experimentation, new methods and mixing totally different components collectively that the artwork involves life in a glass.”
At the moment, his favourite spirit is tequila reposado and favourite ingredient is coconut cream. Each of that are profoundly versatile and supply a ton of taste, physique, and texture.
As a bartender, Lucas finds probably the most pleasure in placing smiles on his visitors’ faces. To guarantee that’s at all times the case, he makes certain to carry his “secret sauce” to each shift behind the bar. Its not an ingredient, however as a substitute a metaphor of service damaged into two elements; “anticipating the visitor’s wants and adapting to the surroundings of the folks and bar.”
To all bartenders striving in direction of greatness of their craft, he advises them to remain artistic, keep curious, attempt new concepts, recipes, and methods. And most significantly, don’t concern failure.
