Hello, I'm Rick.

Born in Netherlands, grew up and studied in the region of Cognac. Passionate multilingual mixologist. People always like my happiness and creativity

Grown up in hospitality in family restaurants, after studying catering school in Royan, France Travelling since my youngest age and discovered passion for cocktails in Sydney, Australia, where I started as head waiter and ended as beginning bartender/barback, because of staff needs and motivation Since that great experience, I learned more and deeper in to mixologie through a complete bartending course at the European Bartender School in Amsterdam, Netherlands (my motherland). Thanks to this course and my everyday growing knowledge and passion I have been head bartender in 3 different bars in France (Cap Ferret, Gironde / Flaine, Savoie, French Alps / Île de ré, La Rochelle). In every place I bring my own ideas and share them with the supervisors and eventually co-workers to create an original and unique cocktail list, using homemade infusions and syrups with fresh products as much as possible following the seasons. Currently I am in a bar in Nafpaktos, Greece. The director has been asking me several times last months to come for a few weeks to bring my knowledge and creativity to renew his cocktails menu and train his team of bartenders For my next experience I would love be work in a high level cocktail bar or a luxury restaurant with a big amount of cocktail sales, to learn as much as possible from co-bartenders and share creativity (and our head bartender in case)

International Bartender Course (4 weeks)

Grade B Amsterdam - May 2021

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