Cocktail Hotel - 1st Floor: Getting the Evening Off

Kyle Branche is a 34-year veteran professional and private bartender in Los Angeles. His wide variety of bar experiences in the City of Angels is second to none, having worked in many bars, nightclubs, private clubs, restaurants, hotels, concert venues, and is currently more off the grid today working a busy, yet more flexible schedule as a private on-call bartender with a variety of services, caterers, event planners, brand-sponsored events and private clientele working the party circuit while still holding position in the bar at The Gardenia Room in Hollywood for 25 years. His Blog of stories and encounters is at: LABartender.wordpress.com Kyle was a contributing writer and columnist in the leading beverage magazines from 2002-2012, with 75 published pieces, including the monthly cocktail column ＂Liquid Kitchen＂ with Patterson’s Beverage Journal (now The Tasting Panel), feature cover stories, contributing articles, and one online multimedia super feature story on Cognac with Sante Magazine, titled ＂The Sleeping Spirit＂. His other bar books available on Amazon include The Bitters Revival, Cocktails on the Brain, and Life Behind Bars - a two-book series of stories and encounters based on all of his experiences. Book One and Book Two. And along with his bar colleague, Kellie Nicholson, is a website of the new standard in online bar education courses at www.BarProfessional.com