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BoozeNation The Podcast

In March 2020, as Covid-19 spread worldwide, a shelter-in-place was mandated in the Bay Area to stop the spread of the virus. As a result, bars, restaurants, and eateries went black.

As a bartender in San Francisco, I was unemployed like the rest of the country. I was consumed by stress, worry, and fear as I witnessed this country fall into mayhem. I heard about one bar or restaurant closing permanently after another. Usually, the owner couldn't afford the rent still bestowed upon them.

I watched in disbelief as my community – the bar industry - got kicked to the curb; no one at the federal level cared or was helping. (I know many industries got kicked to the curb during the pandemic). This lack of concern for our livelihood bothered me greatly. And honestly, things about the bar industry have bothered me since 2016 – the beginning of the Trump era. But, what bothered me was the heightened hostility towards me and my fellow bartenders, especially women, BIPOC, and LBGTQ peeps.

I started this podcast to hear from my colleagues about what happened to their jobs, their lives, and what they're doing now. And how the past six years behind the stick affected them.

BoozeNation The Podcast can be heard on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

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Bars That Made It

  • Lamp Leg in the 500 Club in San Francisco

    500 Club - Mission

  • Lipo Lounge - Chinatown

  • Little Shamrock Bar in San Francisco

    Little Shamrock - Inner Sunset

  • Red's Java House in San Francisco

    Red's Java House - Embarcadero

  • 540 Rogues bar in San Francisco

    540 Rogues - Inner Richmond

  • Doc's Clock bar in San Francisco

    Doc's Clock - Mission

  • Mucky Duck bar in San Francisco

    Mucky Duck - Inner Sunset

  • Pittsburg Pub in San Francisco

    Pittsburg Pub - Outer Sunset

  • Il Pirata bar in San Francisco

    Il Pirata - Potrero Hill

  • Silver Spur bar in San Francisco

    Silver Spur - Sunset

  • 111 Minna Art Gallery and bar in San Francisco

    111 Minna - Downtown

  • Delirium Bar in San Francisco

    Delirium - Mission

  • Standard Deviant bar in San Francisco

    Standard Deviant - Mission

  • Abbey Tavern in San Francisco

    Abbey Tavern - Inner Richmond

  • The Cinch Saloon in San Francisco

    The Cinch Saloon - Polk St.

  • the Mauna Loa bar in San Francisco

    Mauna Loa - Marina

  • Dalva bar in San Francisco

    Dalva - Mission

  • Mini Bar in San Francisco

    Mini Bar - Western Addition

  • Colibri bar in San Francisco in the presdio

    Colibri - Presidio

  • Martuni's - Mid Market

  • Curio bar in San Francisco

    Curio - Mission

  • ABV bar in San Francisco

    ABV - Mission

  • Parkside bar in San Francisco

    Parkside - Potrero Hill

  • Homestead bar in San Francisco

    Homestead - Mission

  • Sycamore bar in San Francisco

    The Sycamore - Mission

  • Buddha Bar - Chinatown

  • The Mint - Mid Market

  • Mission Bowling Club - Mission

  • Casements - Mission

  • Flanahan's - Outer Sunset

  • Shanghai Kelly's - Polk St

  • Black and white photo of Joe's of Westlake

    Joe's of Westlake - Daly City

  • the knockout bar in the mission

    The Knockout - Mission

  • Sign of Louie's bar

    Louie's - Downtown

  • Window of The Social Study

    The Social Study - Western Addition

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Trish Tracey - Food Apps Killed The Restaurant Star

In today's episode, I finish my interview with Chef Trish Tracey. We talk about trying to keep up with PPP loan applications, cooking for Frontline Food SF, losing family members to COVID, the election, the Black Lives Matter protests and the all-around awfulness of 2020. And what it’s like to lose your restaurant and dream.

I have to remind people - we're still in a pandemic please get vaxed and please mask up! Thank you!  This is the second part of my interview with Trish Tracy of Myriad restaurant in San Francisco and last episode we talked about how great it was to work in restaurants in San Francisco in the 90s, how many women were in the back of the house back in the day and the dreaded an awful delivery apps! They suck!!!

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Trish Tracey - Gimme That 90’s Love

My guest is Trish Tracey, chef owner of Myriad restaurant in San Francisco, in the Mission. We talk about gaining the Covid 15lbs weight, working in restaurants in the 90s, and the dreaded food apps.

This is a two-part interview. I met Trish in 2015 she just opened her restaurant Myriad and I would go in about once a week and my order was always the same it was Chicken Sammie sliders and a wedge salad with extra house made Thousand Island Dressing it was so good. It was kind of like my weekly thing to go in and say hello to Steven and Paige the bartenders, give a quick wave to everyone in the back of the house and then watch Trish as she ran around checking on customers, checking on her chefs, checking on the bartenders. It was just such a really lovely evening to spend time in Myriad with Trish and her crew.

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Chris Green - The Gem of The Tenderloin

Today, my guest is Chris Green. Chris explains what it is like to live and work in the Tenderloin of San Francisco. The frustration and love Chris has with the neighborhood. The failures of the local government (Mayor Breed) to help those in dire need during this pandemic.

Chris Green - one of the sweetest and hardest working bartenders out there and worked during the pandemic with the exception of the lockdowns. I met Chris when we both worked at the Hotel Utah Saloon. Chris was a bar back and bartender and was so eager to learn how to make drinks and make them properly and learn how to be behind the bar which I found so endearing because I was not like that at all. I always thought that Chris was such a hard worker and had a real drive for the craft and I was right because now Chris is a bar manager at a bar in the city the Royale Bar in the City. Good job Chris.

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