Town Tavern
Alameda’s neighborhood bar, shot mid-pour: real hands, a lit flame, and the table everyone orders too much for.
The brief
A neighborhood bar with a serious cocktail program needed frames that feel like Friday night, not a studio: real pours, real hands, the peel actually flamed over the glass.
Shot by someone who spent a decade on the other side of that bar — which is mostly how you know when to stop asking and let the shift run.
How the shoot ran
Action first. Shakes, strains, and garnishes were photographed in motion behind the bar, then the food and the room in the same warm palette, so the whole set cuts together like one night of service.
Town Tavern · Alameda
Town Tavern · Alameda
Town Tavern · Alameda
The build
Town Tavern · Alameda
Town Tavern · Alameda
Town Tavern · Alameda
Town Tavern · Alameda
Where it landed
A full set for the bar: program, people, and plates, all cut from the same night-out palette.
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