E241 Gabriela Holzer

This weeks guest is Gabriela Holzer, who joins us from Cleveland, Ohio. Gabriela has been in the hospitality industry since 2015, upon graduating from university, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Gaby moved to Cleveland in 2017, where she began her journey in the cocktail world. Gaby has helmed a variety of cocktail bars and restaurants around the city, and has been the lead bartender at Thyme Table for 4.5 years, which includes codeveloping cocktail menus, training new bar team members, and setting the standard for bar hospitality.

Gabriela has also competed in a variety of national cocktail competitions, and has been a part of the Cocktail Apprentice Program at Tales of the Cocktail as a Red Coat in 2023 and returned as a Grey Coat in 2024. More recently, she has been featured by StarChefs in their visit to the Rust Belt Region, and awarded as one of two Rising Star Bartenders of the Rust Belt 2025 class. These experiences have been instrumental to her broader understanding of the bar industry, and fuelled her drive to create something unique in Cleveland. Gaby's tenure at Thyme Table is coming to a close this year as she gears up to open her first solo venture, located on the west side of Cleveland, called Hereafter.

Hereafter will be an intimate cocktail bar and restaurant that will focus on creating with intention and welcoming guests with mindful hospitality. The design of Hereafter will be a minimalist space that allows guests to feel calm, and therefore be more present in their experience. Every detail at Hereafter is meant to elevate the guest experience to feel precious, while still maintaining a feeling of warmth, comfort, and home. It is projected to open December 2025.

Gabriela’s degree in Fine Art informs much of her creative process for Hereafter. She is involved with every aspect of creative direction, from cocktail design, to interior design, as well as creating artwork for the bar. Realizing the dream that is Hereafter is a new and grand frontier to her artmaking. To influence not only the way someone feels through visual art, but also through flavor, function, and interpersonal connection, really allows Gabriela to fine tune every aspect of the environment for her guests.

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A big thank you to Jean-Marc Dykes of Imbiblia. Imbiblia is a cocktail app for bartenders, restaurants and cocktail lovers alike and built by a bartender with more than a decade of experience behind the bar. Several of the features includes the ability to create your own Imbiblia Recipe Cards with the Imbiblia Cocktail Builder, rapidly select ingredients, garnishes, methods and workshop recipes with a unique visual format, search by taste using flavor profiles unique to Imbiblia, share recipes publicly plus many more……Imbiblia - check it out!

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