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Burritt Room’s Kevin Diedrich, Fifth Floor’s Morgan Young Among Chron’s 2011 Bar Stars

Clockwise from top left: Diedrich, Young, Smith, and Splendorini.
Clockwise from top left: Diedrich, Young, Smith, and Splendorini. Photo: Russell Yip/Chron

The Chron unveiled their five Bar Stars for 2011 in Sunday’s paper, marking the local cocktail world’s equivalent of the Rising Stars list for chefs. Unlike the Rising Stars list, they managed to get a lady onto this list: Morgan Young, 23, who oversees the bar program at Fifth Floor alongside mentor Jacques Bezuidenhout. Also on the list are the Burritt Room’s Kevin Diedrich; Jason LoGrasso of Quince and Cotogna; Carlo Splendorini of Michael Mina and RN74; and Alex Smith at Gitane. Jon Bonné writes of the current S.F. cocktail culture as a whole, “The best drinks have a seamlessness — and a timelessness… [and] this year’s Bar Stars occupy that more mature space.”

2011’s Bar Stars show a more mature approach [Chron]

Burritt Room’s Kevin Diedrich, Fifth Floor’s Morgan Young Among