Riffle NW/Teardrop Lounge bartender Ricky Gomez recently won a big-deal cocktail competition in New York City, and the Food & Wine blog sits down with Gomez to discuss his winning Mai Tai and the uniqueness of American bars: "You can look at cocktails sometimes and tell who invented them just by the specific style or ingredient, and that's what I like to see when I got into bars." [F&W]
