Joe Gilmore

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The Blenheim
Type	Cocktail
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Joseph "Joe" Patrick Gilmore
Joseph "Joe" Patrick Gilmore
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OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from text	Bartender and mixologist
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Known for	Head bartender of the Savoy Hotel American Bar
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Awards	Lifetime Achievement Award - Mixology Bar Awards

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Joseph "Joe" Gilmore (19 May 1922 – 18 December 2015)^[1] was a renowned bartender and famous mixologist during the 20th century. He was Head Barman at The Savoy Hotel's American Bar from 1954 to 1976 and is recognised as the creator of numerous cocktails to mark special events and important guests, a longstanding tradition at the American Bar. Gilmore's most famous creations include Moonwalk, Link-Up, The Corpse Reviver, Lorraine, and Missouri Mule.

Early life

Joseph Patrick Gilmore was born on 19 May 1922 in Belfast, Northern Ireland to John Gilmore, a tobacconist, and Margaret O'Connor, a tailoress, from Belfast, Ireland.

He was the third of nine children.

In 1938, aged 16, Gilmore moved to London looking for work and "adventure".^[2] He began working as a wallpaper packer at the Arthur Sanderson & Son's factory in Perivale, London, later taking up work as a kitchen hand.^[3]

Gilmore began his early bartender training at La Coquille, a French restaurant on St Martin's Lane, Covent Garden, among other places.^[3] While working at The Olde Bell he met and served Welsh millionaire steel-baron Kenneth Davies and the aviator Amy Johnston. The couple reportedly asked Gilmore for a dry martini, which he attempted unsuccessfully. Despite his attempt being enjoyed by the couple, Davies and Johnston politely demonstrated how to make one. Gilmore cited this interaction as the spark that fuelled his passion of cocktail mixology.^[3] After this first encounter, Davies and Gilmore became life long friends.^[3]

Career

Gilmore first began working at The Savoy as a commis waiter at The American Bar of the Savoy Hotel.^[4] By 1940, aged 18, he was promoted to trainee barman and began his apprenticeship with Harry Craddock, earning £3.10s a week.^[5]^[6]

In 1954, Gilmore took over as head bartender. Over the following two decades Gilmore created new cocktails, especially to honour special occasions and important guests, including Princess Diana, Prince William, Anne, The Princess Royal, The Queen Mother, Sir Winston Churchill, and American Presidents Harry S. Truman and Richard Nixon.

In addition to serving five generations of royals at private receptions and parties, Gilmore frequently served Errol Flynn, Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Grace Kelly, George Bernard Shaw, Ernest Hemingway, Noël Coward, Agatha Christie, Alice Faye, Ingrid Bergman, Julie Andrews, Laurence Olivier, Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra and Winston Churchill.^[7]

In 1969, he created one of his most famous cocktails, the "Moonwalk", to commemorate the Apollo 11 Moon landing. The cocktail is a combination of grapefruit juice, orange liqueur and rose water, topped with champagne. This was the first drink astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had upon returning to Earth.^[8]

Frank Sinatra was a frequent guest to the American Bar whenever he was in London and insisted only Gilmore was to serve him. It is widely believed the line from Sinatra’s One For My Baby "set’em up Joe" is in reference to Gilmore.^[9]

Gilmore retired from the Savoy in 1976.^[2]

Cocktails created

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