COLUMBIA – Ratio, a small-plates restaurant specializing in Peruvian delicacies in northeast Columbia, named its new bar supervisor after veteran bartender Grant McCloskey left the restaurant for a brand new enterprise.
Nathan Vaughan, who most just lately headed up the cocktail program at Black Rooster in West Columbia, will take over the upscale restaurant alongside Spears Creek Church Highway on April 10, after coaching with McCloskey.
“I’ve a giant function to fill, however everybody has been very type and really welcoming to me,” Vaughan stated.
Vaughan has labored in Columbia bars since he was a pupil on the College of South Carolina. He began as a bartender at Black Rooster when the restaurant opened in 2019 and finally rose to turn into bar supervisor at West Columbia Italian restaurant.
Along with his work as a bartender, he helped direct just a few seasons of “At The Addition,” a digital home present that featured stay streams of bands from Columbia and the encompassing area.
Vaughan stated he’s very excited to be taught extra about pisco, a sort of brandy produced in Chile and Peru, and to make connections with the restaurant's diners. He stated he plans to additionally preserve mushy drinks and non-alcoholic choices on the cocktail menu.
“(These) are form of a wave proper now… I'll be engaged on a devoted mocktail checklist. I did that at (Black) Rooster and I hope to do the identical at Ratio,” Vaughan stated.
The announcement of Vaughan's hiring comes per week after McCloskey, who began Ratio's cocktail program when the restaurant opened in fall 2020, introduced he was leaving the restaurant to work at The Hole, a brand new sport restaurant given.