The Restaurant Guys Sean Muldoon: Founder of The Dead Rabbit, Moments Before He Opened
This is a Library Selection from 2012
The Banter
The Guys note the changes in how folks choose to ring in the New Year. As they often do, they choose to celebrate with a BANG!
The Conversation
The Restaurant Guys hear the story of Sean Muldoon from the bar at the Merchant Hotel in Belfast to the soon-to-be opened The Dead Rabbit in New York City. Sean shares his vision for bartending as a vocation and the innovative concept of The Dead Rabbit. Listen to his thoughts before the revolutionary project that raised the bar for the Irish pub experience and catch a fun story about a young Jack McGarry!
The Inside Track
Francis had the great pleasure of meeting Sean on his many trips to the Bar at the Merchant Hotel in Belfast. They find they share a similar vision with regards to mentoring staff and excellence.
Sean: I just need believers, I can do the rest. I just need people who believe.
Francis: You know, we absolutely speak the same language.
-On The Restaurant Guys Podcast 2012
Bio
Sean Muldoon was selected to direct a visionary bar in The Merchant Hotel in Belfast. By 2009, the Merchant had earned three Tales of the Cocktail awards, and was named “World’s Best Cocktail Bar” in 2010.
Muldoon moved to New York in 2013 to open The Dead Rabbit, Irish pub meets high class cocktails, with business partner Jack McGarry. Their New York City venture garnered numerous awards from Tales of the Cocktail and 50 Best.
He plans to open Hazel and Apple in Charleston, SC later in 2024.
Info
Hazel and Apple (in 2024)
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The Dead Rabbit
The Bar at the Merchant Hotel
https://www.themerchanthotel.com/bars-restaurants
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