Reviving Gage & Tollner and Reinventing Tropical Cocktails | St. John Frizell & Garret Richard

The Restaurant Guys · Jun 24, 2026 · 59m · transcript

Recorded live before an audience at Sunken Harbor Club in Brooklyn.

Why This Episode Matters

Gage & Tollner’s revival shows how a historic restaurant can be preserved without turning it into a museum.

Sunken Harbor Club demonstrates how tropical cocktail history can be reworked through modern technique, research, and strong storytelling.

St. John and Garret offer practical insight into crowdfunding, opening during COVID, and building a destination bar above a landmark restaurant.

The conversation connects serious non-alcoholic cocktails, classic steakhouse drinks, the Martini, and Charles H…