Planning on opening a bar? Excited to hire your “perfect team” to make it happen? Maybe you should read this. Cole offers a space for us to reflect on our passion and dreams of opening a bar, while ensuring that we are being responsible, caring, and thoughtful in the process. This is the reality check we all needed.

What we achieve in our communities, on a micro-level, can enact grander change on the macro. Chef Jake returns to SPILL with a recount of how he created zero-waste food systems to feed his local Chicago community.

Serving wine table-side, selecting the perfect pairing, and looking good while doing it. There is more to it, and Liz Martinez, one of the nation’s top Sommeliers, is seeking to elevate every element of it.

Imagine if we spent more time finding ways to value the labor within restaurants and bars, in a way where folks in hospitality actually sensed the love and care. Chef Jake takes a crack at it.

The sense of community, internationally, is one that Jessica craves more than anything. It’s not the tins cracking or the speed pourers dripping. It is the community.

In a year of sorrowful events, reliving of trauma, and utter exhaustion, Paige Walwyn seeks to find joy in the things that keep her inspired each day.

Calling all individuals within the beverage and spirits industry to acknowledge and stand together against white saviorism, colonization, and general disregard for systemic blocks placed upon Haiti.

Hopefully from the ashes, our industry will fly stronger. I'm personally looking forward to sharing a drink with friends and establishments that I love and missed during these times.