Anthony C. Caporale
- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Anthony Caporale has been a professional Bar Instructor and Bar Chef
for two decades, and has been involved in the opening of over a dozen
major restaurants in roles ranging from Beverage Consultant to General
Manager to Owner. He was the Beverage Manager at Bobby Flay's flagship
Mesa Grill restaurant, served as the opening General Manager of Flip,
the newest restaurant in the Bloomingdale's Manhattan headquarters
store, was the Launch General Manager of Forty Eight, the hottest new
cocktail lounge in New York City's Rockefeller Center, and he designed
and managed the terrifically-successful Green Room Lounge at the John
W. Engeman Theater in New York as part of its $5 million renovation.
Anthony is a Society of Wine Educators Certified Specialist in Spirits
(CSS), a ServSafe Alcohol Instructor, a TIPs Trainer for Responsible
Alcohol Service, a certified Food Manager, and a member of the Guild of
Sommeliers. He is a faculty member of the Culinary Management Program
at New York City's award-winning Institute of Culinary Education, and
is the U.S. Brand Ambassador for Drambuie.
Anthony is also the Producer and Host of Art of the Drink TV, and its companion feature-length DVD, Art of the Drink: Bar Essentials, the best-selling instructional bartending DVD online. Art of the Drink TV is the leading cocktail web show with millions of loyal viewers worldwide and over 75 award-winning episodes available on every major web video site, as well as TivoCast OnDemand, Cablevision Public Access, and nearly 100 local television broadcast stations. The series is an iTunes top-twenty-five Food Podcast and was named Best Instructional Vlog by Lulu.TV, Best Instructional Podcast by The New York Times Online, and has been nominated for two consecutive Tasty Awards for beverage programming. Art of the Drink TV has been translated into Spanish and Chinese, making it available in the world's three most widely-spoken languages. Anthony is a favorite guest on the WPIX-TV Morning Show and Martha Stewart Living Radio in New York, and is a Contributing Editor for Chilled Magazine.
Anthony is also the Producer and Host of Art of the Drink TV, and its companion feature-length DVD, Art of the Drink: Bar Essentials, the best-selling instructional bartending DVD online. Art of the Drink TV is the leading cocktail web show with millions of loyal viewers worldwide and over 75 award-winning episodes available on every major web video site, as well as TivoCast OnDemand, Cablevision Public Access, and nearly 100 local television broadcast stations. The series is an iTunes top-twenty-five Food Podcast and was named Best Instructional Vlog by Lulu.TV, Best Instructional Podcast by The New York Times Online, and has been nominated for two consecutive Tasty Awards for beverage programming. Art of the Drink TV has been translated into Spanish and Chinese, making it available in the world's three most widely-spoken languages. Anthony is a favorite guest on the WPIX-TV Morning Show and Martha Stewart Living Radio in New York, and is a Contributing Editor for Chilled Magazine.