John deBary

John deBary is a New York City bartender, writer and consultant with more than a decade of experience working in award-winning bars and restaurants. He writes for Liquor.com and other leading publications. 

Experience

deBary began bartending in 2008 at the James Beard Award-winning cocktail bar PDT, and later became the bar director for Momofuku, where he worked from 2009 to 2018. While there, he trained countless bartenders and servers and helped to open 10 restaurants, each with its own unique bar program.

In addition to writing for Liquor.com, deBary served as deputy editor of the annual Food & Wine cocktail book from 2011 to 2015, and his work has appeared in Bloomberg Pursuits, GQ, Lucky Peach, Munchies, and The New York Times. Most recently, he created Proteau, a non-alcoholic aperitif. His first book, "Drink What You Want," is due out in summer 2020.  

Awards and Publications

• Author of “Drink What You Want”

Education

deBary has a bachelor’s degree in East Asian languages, literature and linguistics from Columbia College at Columbia University. 

About Liquor.com

Liquor.com is dedicated to good drinking and great living. We inspire, entertain and educate anyone—and everyone—interested in what happens in the glass and out of it.

For more than 20 years, Dotdash brands have been helping people find answers, solve problems, and get inspired. We are one of the top-20 largest content publishers on the Internet according to comScore, a leading Internet measurement company, and reach more than 30% of the U.S. population every month. Our brands collectively have won more than 20 industry awards in the last year alone and, most recently, Dotdash was named Publisher of the Year by Digiday, a leading industry publication.