#92 Jeff Bell - New York's Most Famous Speakeasy + Philosophy, Fatherhood, KP'ing, Pandemic & More...

Podcast: The Curious Bartender Podcast · Tristan Stephenson

Opublikowano: 2026-08-24

Jeff Bell is the owner of PDT — Please Don't Tell — the hidden-phone-booth speakeasy that helped define modern New York cocktail culture, alongside Crif Dogs, Mixteca, Kees and the newly opened Highball Ltd inside Grand Central's 10 Grand Central building. We get into the arithmetic of running one of the busiest small rooms in the city — turning a 44-seat bar nine times on a Saturday night — and the guest-first heuristic he runs every new idea through: is this cool, tested against whether it's actually feasible, not whether the business can capitalise on it. Jeff traces his path from a philosop...