Issue link: https://digital.copcomm.com/i/253609
96 / the tasting panel / february 2014 ON-PREMISE PATTER I n October, Steve Olson opened Apartment 13 in New York City's East Village, with former tennis champion Lorrae Doig as partner, Chef John Keller driving the kitchen and Leo DeGroff reinforcing the bar. Olson is equal parts mixologist, author educator and consultant. Through his company, aka wine geek, he has helped design the food and beverage programs for such clients as Relais & Châteaux, Maylower Inn, Gramercy Tavern, the Borgata Hotel and Casino and Aqua in Cancun, Mexico. So Apartment 13 is decidedly not Olson's irst time at the rodeo. But many of the ine points of hospitality, menu design and bar design are incorporated. For example: "Anytime we design a bar and an architect doesn't, it's a dream bar," he says. Steve Olson's Newest Steve Olson at his new East Village bar and restaurant, Apartment 13, in Manhattan. THE WINEGEEK'S EAST VILLAGE RESTAURANT INCORPORATES MANY LESSONS LEARNED ALONG THE WAY Dream Bar by Timothy Moriarty / photos by Doug Young