My Top Bar & Bartender in LA: Redbird & Tobin Shea

Enter my NEFT Vodka column, which spotlights California’s best bartenders and bars — including a special cocktail recipe from each bartender featuring this Austrian alpine-distilled vodka.

My first column is on my # 1 bar in all of Los Angeles because of the consummate palate of bartender Tobin Shea, a cocktail master who has long perfected cocktails often using obscure spirits from Austrian schnaps to Armenian brandy, in his deliciously thoughtful cocktails.

REDBIRD’s TOBIN SHEA feature

Other NEFT Spotlights:
Nicolas (Nic) Torres of True Laurel, San Francisco
— Karri Kiyuna of Wildhawk, San Francisco
Jeremy Allen of MiniBar, Los Angeles

Thai Ball cocktail at Redbird, Los Angeles