Same spot, new look! This week on The Speakeasy, Sam Ross and Michael McIlroy drop by to talk with host Damon Boelte about their new bar, Attaboy. The two took over the former location of Lower East Side staple, Milk and Honey. Find out what it takes to open your own bar, and what they've changed to make the spot their own. What's stayed the same since the bar opened a month ago? Classic cocktails. Hear Damon, Sam and Michael debate the value of a cocktail menu. Does a lack of menus make things more personal between a bartender and a customer, or more confusing? Without a menu, the duo talks about serving guests personalized drinks in "courses" - whether it's with citrus or, even, an egg. This program was sponsored by White Oak Pastures

"Those couple months we were closed during the renovations, hours were changed significantly from being bartender for 14 odd-years getting up around midday, on an early miday and then getting home until 5 to just to change, getting and being there at 9 o'clock, making sure the contractors were on top of their game, making those phone calls, did you know business hours close at 5 p.m.?"

"Those few months we were closed I was just craving getting back behind the bar and we're doing that in our own space."

--Sam Ross of Attaboy on The Speakeasy

This week on The Speakeasy, Damon sits down and chats with Selena Ricks-Good, the woman behind the popular blog, The Dizzy Fizz. Tune in to hear how she's trying to make high end cocktails more accessible through the blog and the events that she throws such as The French Spirits Soirée. Hear why Selena thinks some cocktails have too much sugar these days, what place novelty drinks have in cocktail culture and which trends she thinks will take off in 2012. This episode was sponsored by Fairway Market.

"With this website [The Dizzy Fizz], I wanted to take some of the seriousness out of cocktail culture."

--Selena Ricks-Good on The Speakeasy

Trust your barender! Especially if his name is Frankie Cocktails. Tune in to a friendly episode of The Speakeasy as Damon speaks with Frank Cicneros, aka Frankie Cocktails, about his latest venture, The Bourgeois Pig. Learn about his sherry based cocktails and how carbonated cocktails are generally trending. Don't be that guy at the bar who constantly asks for drink modifications, trust the expert behind the bar! This episode was sponsored by Fairway Market.

"People forget that proof and water content are very important elements of a cocktail" - Frankie Cocktails on The Speakeasy

"A great cocktail is the result of 50 failures" - Frankie Cocktails on The Speakeasy