Karine Adolphe - Karine The Queen

Interview with Karine Adolphe, bartender and sommelier in San Francisco.
Hello and Welcome to my podcast - BoozeNation The Podcast.

Throughout this podcast, I plan to check in with my fellow restaurant and bar comrades as we try to weather this pandemic storm. Believe me, it has not been easy for any of us to try to get through this craziness.

My first guest is Karine Adolphe an amazing server, bartender, and sommelier who I met when I was bartending at a bar called the Buck. The Buck was on Market Street and Karine was serving at Zuni Café which was across the street from the Buck. Karine and other Zunis would come in after their shift for their decompression drinks after they served the Zuni clientele. And that clientele can be a nightmare. So I empathized with the Zunis when they guzzled down their shots of liquid-make-me-forget-all-the-assholes-I-just-dealt-with.

In this interview with Karine Adolphe, we talk about what it takes to become a sommelier, the cheating and sexual harassment scandals in the wine community, bitcoin, and the insecurity of working with the public between the years 2016-2020.