{"id":7202,"date":"2024-05-14T18:30:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T18:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southernsmoke.org\/?post_type=chef&#038;p=7202"},"modified":"2024-05-14T18:30:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T18:30:06","slug":"travis-tober","status":"publish","type":"chef","link":"https:\/\/southernsmoke.org\/zh_tw\/chef\/travis-tober\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis Tober"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime bartender and accomplished mixologist, Travis Tober has 20+ years of experience at top restaurants and innovative cocktail bars across the country, working at nearly every position in the beverage industry. He has spent years creating and consulting on national beverage programs for well-known restaurant brands including Ruth\u2019s Chris Steak House, Landry\u2019s, Hard Rock Cafe and TGI Fridays. Tober is now the Owner of Nickel City,\u00a0a nationally-acclaimed East Austin cocktail and neighborhood bar opened in 2017. Under his guidance, Nickel City has quickly risen to become one of the top bar programs in the country, drumming up a slew of accolades including\u00a0<i data-stringify-type=\"italic\">Esquire\u2019s \u201c<\/i>Best Bars in America,\u201d\u00a0<i data-stringify-type=\"italic\">Garden &amp; Gun<\/i>\u2019s \u201cBest Southern Bars in America,\u201d Perrier&#8217;s &#8220;World&#8217;s 50 best discoveries,&#8221; Bar and Nightclub&#8217;s &#8220;Best Neighborhood Bar,&#8221; CultureMap\u2019s \u201cTastemaker Awards: Bar of the Year,\u201d Time Out\u2019s \u201cBar Awards: Best New Bar,\u201d Austin Monthly\u2019s \u201cBest New Bar,\u201d and was finalist 2 years in a row for Tales of the Cocktail\u2019s Spirited Awards for \u201cBest American High Volume Cocktail Bar\u201d and &#8221; Best American Bar Team.&#8221; Prior to Nickel City, Tober was Beverage Director at VOX Table and head mixologist at the Four Seasons Austin, where he elevated the beverage program to previously unseen heights.An established thought leader in the industry, Tober was named Best North American Bartender for <i data-stringify-type=\"italic\">Whiskey Magazine<\/i>\u2019s \u201cIcons of Whiskey America 2019\u201d award and &#8220;Austins Bartender of the year 2021&#8221; He is also an Owner at Nickel City Fort Worth, Uncle Nicky&#8217;s, Best Little Wine and Old Pal In Lockhart, TX.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":7203,"template":"","class_list":["post-7202","chef","type-chef","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernsmoke.org\/zh_tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chef\/7202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernsmoke.org\/zh_tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chef"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernsmoke.org\/zh_tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chef"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernsmoke.org\/zh_tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernsmoke.org\/zh_tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}