At Colin and Heather Lynch’s acclaimed coastal Italian restaurant, justly lauded for fabulous seafood and pastas, Ryan Lotz oversees the South End’s best bar program. Each of his bartenders has the right stuff: superb mixology, wine and food service skills. But to this Hagerty adds unparalleled cheer and a megawatt smile that could make the weariest office drone forget a miserable workday. In Boston’s firmament of bartending stars, Hagerty is the sunniest of suns.
Bar Mezzana
360 Harrison Ave., Boston • (617) 530-1770
barmezzana.com
Other Winners
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2014 Winner: Katie Emmerson at the Hawthorne
“Sitting at Katie’s bar is one of life’s great joys,” says fellow bartender Tyler Wang of Audubon Boston, and we heartily concur...
- Hotel Commonwealth, 500A Comm. Ave., Boston
- (617) 532-9150
- thehawthornebar.com
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2015 Winner: Ran Duan of The Baldwin Bar at Sichuan Garden II
Seventeen years after the B-Side Lounge birthed the local craft cocktail revival, Boston is blessed with scores of skilled, scholarly, engaging bartenders making serious drinks…...
- 2 Alfred St., Woburn
- (781) 935-8488
- sichuangardenrestaurant.com
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2016 Winner: Jason Kilgore of UNI
The new UNI is a fantastic reimaging of Ken Oringer’s flagship restaurant, ditching Clio’s costly French/Japanese fusion for sushi and affordable izakaya snacks like pork-belly buns, skewers, dumplings and ramen while preserving the old Uni’s extravagant imported sashimi...
- 370 Comm. Ave., Boston
- (617) 536-7200
- uni-boston.com
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2018 Winner: Amanda Saladino at The Hawthorne
- 500A Commonwealth Ave., Boston
- (617) 532-9150
- thehawthornebar.com
Photo Credit: Emily Hagen
