Culinary Meets Cocktails with Stuart Jensen | Episode 05

Culinary 360 Podcast

Tune into Episode 5 of The Culinary 360 Podcast where we chat with Stuart Jensen, a master of culinary and cocktail innovation in Denver. From his early days as a line cook to co-owning the Curio Bar and Roger's Liquid Oasis, Stuart shares how he blends kitchen technology farm-fresh ingredients, and his knowledge of flavor combinations into his celebrated bar programs. Don't miss his insights on evolving cocktail complexity and crafting the perfect drink!

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1. Show Start (00:00:00)

2. Introducing Stuart Jensen — Denver Restaurant Owner and Chef (00:00:21)

3. Stereo equipment & my soon-to-be wife... (00:01:34)

4. Stuart's path from back of house to bar and ownership (00:02:30)

5. Luke gave Stuart his first line cook job (00:03:44)

6. Knife skills at the ceviche station (00:05:13)

7. Bringing back of house skills to the front of house jobs (00:06:14)

8. Intensive bar training at Green Russell (00:09:16)

9. Creating a bar program as manager at Mercantile (00:10:36)

10. Cocktails in the combi oven (00:12:25)

11. Bitters in the vacuum sealer (00:14:53)

12. Meeting his business partners — Curio, Brass Tacks, and Roger's Liquid Oasis (00:16:41)

13. Who is Roger? (00:18:09)

14. Pandemic closures and lessons learned (00:19:50)

15. Pandemic gains: patio spaces and takeaway alcohol (00:21:09)

16. The new cocktail bar concept in the works (00:23:19)

17. Outdoor walk-up window for cocktail service (00:25:58)

18. Bar equipment plans for new cocktail bar (00:27:00)

19. Building a bar program around draft cocktails (00:28:04)

20. Bar tools: Spinzall centrifuge (00:28:55)

21. Making draft cocktails in-house (00:31:11)

22. Nitro cocktails (00:33:33)

23. Frozen beverage vs Slurpee machines (00:34:57)

24. Equipment resourses for bartenders (00:36:35)

25. Social media is indispensable (00:38:41)

26. Wrapping up with Stuart (00:39:59)

27. Episode takeaways (00:40:36)

28. EoS (00:42:50)