Tiffanie Barriere is the bartender’s bartender, an influencer and educator who has been awarded with some of the beverage industry’s highest honors. The Bar Smarts and Bar 5 graduate is a Tastemakers of the South award-winner who spent seven years as the beverage director of One Flew South the “Best Airport Bar in the World.” As an independent bartender she is known for creative and innovative cocktail menus for pop-dinners and bar consultancy clients; hosting mixology classes around the world and connecting culinary and farm culture with spirits and history. As a leader, she is a member of the Tales of the Cocktail Visionary Award Winner, Philanthropy & Development Board member, and a member of the Atlanta chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier.

Known as “The Drinking Coach” Barriere has graced the demonstration stages of prestigious food and hospitality events such as the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival, Charleston Food & Wine Festival, BevCon, Tales of the Cocktail, Berlin BCB, Savannah Food & Wine Festival, Music to Your Mouth and more. As an author-contributor, Tiffanie’s cocktail recipes can be found in the Southern Foodway Alliance Guide to Cocktails by Jerry Slayter, Road Soda by Kara Newman and Jubilee, by Toni Tipton Martin. Tiffanie also helped modernize the cocktails in Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs and Juice, by Toni as well.

Her reputation as a public historian has opened doors for her to speak on panels at such venues as Fire, Flour & Fork, Southern Foodways Symposium, and the Soul Summit, and she has interpreted the cocktails of African American and women firsts in spirits at the James Beard House in New York City.
The culinarians and chefs she have worked with reads like a Who’s Who in the Culinary Arts: Duane Nutter, Todd Richards, the late Darryl Evans, Kevin Mitchell, Deborah VanTrece, Jennifer Hill Booker, Suzanne Vizethann, Erika Council, Todd Ginsberg and Asha Gomez.

Barriere and her cocktails have been featured in such publications as Imbibe magazine (print and online), Difford’s Guide, Creative Loafing, Forbes, Essence, Southern Living, The Bitter Southerner, Cherry Bomb, Washington Post, Thrillist, Eater, Vine Pair, Food Republic, and Garden & Gun. In 2020 Tiffanie was featured on Food Networks The Kitchen and received the Tales of the Cocktails Dame of the Year award. In 2021 Tiffanie appeared as the cover photo of Imbibe Magazines for the Top 75 for Imbibe and was voted in to take the seat as the Tales of the Cocktail Dame Hall of Fame Co- Chair. Barriere has also allocated her palate nationwide by becoming a spirit’s judge for the L.A. Spirits Awards, Ascot Awards Judge with Fred Minnick, American Craft Spirits Association and New Orleans Spirit Competition. She has shared birthday and Spring cocktail ideas live with Hoda and Jenna on the Today Show along with local Atlanta news outlets. In 2023 Tiffanie was showcased across the world as she was featured as a guest judge on the Netflix show High on the Hog Season 2, Drink Masters, and also asked to join master distiller Patrick Leger in Bourg-Charente, Cognac and share her expertise and talent on Amazon Primes Three Drinkers. In July of 2023 Barriere received the Visionary Award from the Tales of the Cocktail Foundation for her unique contribution to the drink’s community, contributions in making sure the beverage community is equitable and inclusive and maintaining leadership beyond the norm. The Louisiana-Texas native is the friend and mentor of some of the best bartenders and mixologists in the world and remains a goal of education, service, and fun with every pour.