Tad Carducci

Tad Carducci is a lifelong bartender, award-winning mixologist and general bon vivant, with over twenty-five years experience in the hospitality industry. He is one half of the dynamic duo known as the Tippling Bros., a New York based beverage consultancy dedicated to "spirituous advisement and raising of the bar". Carducci is also partner in the Mercadito Hospitality group (winner of several regional and national awards, including the 2011 Cheers Benchmark of Excellence for Best Cocktail Lounge and 2013 Beverage Innovator of the Year), with restaurants in New York, Chicago and Miami and is also a partner in a cavernous cocktail bar in the basement of New York's famous Chelsea Market, appropriately named The Tippler.

Tad lives in a little 1930's bungalow with his wife Joanne, son Leonardo and daughter Abigail. He is convinced that he hung out with Ernest Hemingway in his last go round, and if he had it to do over again, would be a jazz crooner or professional lobsterman. He's addicted to hot dogs and the Discovery Channel, plays guitar very badly and drives way way too fast.