Dutch Kills, the cocktail bar in Long Island City, Queens, you’ve probably noticed the showy supporting role ice plays in their drinks. long throw skewer highballs frozen.Paperweights size cubes weigh rocks glasses. For other beverages, waiters hack into blocks of size microwave oven, sharp custom pieces perfectly suited to each cocktail. Now the Dutch team kills will be exporting its vision of water ice beyond Queens.
Sasha Petraske, Boccato Richard Ian and present, who own and operate Mata Dutch, along with Zachary Gelnaw-Rubin, who has been a bartender since the hall opened its doors in May 2009, has Quintal founded with ice and cocktail service, Mr.. Boccato, Mr. File and Mr. Gelnaw Rubin serving as the operational core of the team. Quintal work in the same warehouse that killed Dutch call home.
“The other side of the building has been vacant since we moved in a couple of years ago,” said Mr. Boccato. “We always had our eyes in the room.” The company has bought two sides CB300X2 Clinebell carving blocks of ice maker machines, with another on the road. The machines produce two 300-pound blocks of ice virgin every three or four days through a slow cycle of freezing.
While companies that provide ice bars are hardly a new idea, Quintal will focus specifically on high-end ice as intended by the creators of handcrafted cocktails. “I think we are the first of our race in New York to say that this is our model,” he said, “to make this type of ice bars.” Quintal first customer is, natch, Dutch Kills. The company is also in talks with milk and honey, Mr. Petraske neo-speakeasy on the Lower East Side, and has become prominent as a cocktail consultancy contemporary cocktails and wine are also known as a geek, and agreements mixed drink Tales of the Cocktail, New Orleans, and Classic Manhattan Cocktail. Recently opened bar Mr. Boccato, the Tribeca Weatherup, who runs Kathryn Weatherup and Matthew Maddy, not be a customer, last fall, Mr. Boccato ice bar made self-sufficient by installing a machine Clinebell.
Without revealing specific figures, Mr. Boccato said Quintal prices to be “very reasonable” and that the company will work with any bar to create ice that suits their purposes and manufacturing. Would you like your drinks wreath with balls of ice or diamonds? It can be done. But if you are having a wedding or bar mitzvah and is looking for a decorative sculpture, look elsewhere.