This is a BONUS! episode relating to the Belmont Stakes 2025

The ConversationThe Restaurant Guys sit down with King Cocktail Dale DeGroff and Peter Thomas Fornatale of In the Money Players’ Podcast to talk about horse racing and the cocktails that accompany it. Pete offers his Win, Place and Show for the upcoming Belmont Stakes 2025. Listen and you could wind up in the money.

The Inside Track The Guys are horse racing fans and hosted Dale for his performance of “Gamblers, Whisky and Flying Horses.” They recently met Pete and plan to catch up with him at the track in Saratoga this summer. They all have had fun times with Dale including one night when Dale had to give the bartenders at a new NYC hotspot a cocktail recipe.

 Pete: You're writing out the recipe on the back of a napkin to send to the bartenders to go and make us around. To this day still, it was the most baller move I've ever seen to be in the hot new restaurant writing out the recipe. This is what we'd like to drink, thank you very much.

Francis: I wanna make a public service announcement to all dining customers. If you are not Dale Degroff, don't do that. 

Dale: And by the way, this explains why nobody knows where these famous drinks came from with a few minor exceptions because they wrote 'em down on a cocktail napkin and stuck them in their pocket. Later on in the evening they pulled it out, blew their nose on it and threw it away.

Dale DeGroff & Peter Thomas Fornatale on The Restaurant Guys Podcast 2025

Info

Pete’s podcast

https://inthemoneypodcast.com/category/players-podcast/

Pete’s book
Brooklyn Spirits: Craft Distilling and Cocktails from the World's Hippest Borough
By Peter Thomas Fornatale & Chris Wertz

Chris MacMillan mint julep video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJV-O1e10z8&t=358s

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