E40 Adrienn Tomcsanyi

Adrienn Tomcsanyi joins the show this week. Currently living in Helsinki, Finland - Adrienn grew up in Budapest, Hungary. The first time Adrienn got introduced to the bartending industry was back in her high school days when she studied hospitality and management back in the mid to late 2000’s. It was during this time that Adrienn had an opportunity to travel to Poland and to Finland as an exchange student. This allowed her to expand her knowledge about bartending and other languages. While in Poland, Adrienn got her first job in the Industry working in a hotel bar called the Novotel Hotel. While working at Novotel, a Polish bartender taught her a few classic cocktails such as the Daiquiri, Mojito and Bloody Mary. It was at this time that Adrienn discovered she had a passion for cocktails and turn this love for drinks into a career.

With her studies completed in 2011, Adrienn decided that her best method for her to grow was to leave Hungary and move to another country. As a result, Adrienn moved to the North of Finland where she worked in an authentic Finnish Hotel bar for a year. Shortly thereafter, she moved from the North of Finland to the capital city - Helsinki and try her luck out there. Adrienn spent several years there working in various restaurants and bars in the city centre. In 2017, Adrienn wanted to take her bartending knowledge and skills to the next level and attended a bartender school in her home town of Budapest Hungary. It was at this point that she expanded her knowledge in bar techniques, history of alcohol and spirts and learned a plethora of new recipes. Even though this was a short program, this provided Adrienn and solid foundation to take her bartending skills to the next level.

At this point, Adrienne got a job at an airport bar where she had the opportunity to take over the direction of the bar. She was given the task to develop the winter bar menu. As a result of the success of her first bar menu, she had taken over the creation of the seasonal and permanent bar menus as well. In 3 years, Adrienn created 3 large bar menus along with several seasonal ones. During this time, as bartending had originally started as a hobby in her life - this slowly turned to a lifestyle and even more like a love. Since that time, whenever Adrienn has had an opportunity, she continually takes more courses, meets new bartenders, visits bar shows, and grabs every single chance to learn more about her passion in life.

Recently, Adrienn got another job in the heart of Helsinki, in an Italian jazz bar and restaurant. In these Covid times, Adrienn spends a lot of time working on her social media as much as she can and takes as many online industry focused seminars as possible.

Instagram: @adrienntomcsanyi

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