Craig Trager was born and raised in Los Angeles, California and has been involved in both the restaurant and nightclub business for over twenty years. Trager managed Tuttobene Restaurant, owned by well-known restaurateur Silvio Dimore where Trager learned the importance of treating customers in that special way therefore giving them a reason to come back time and time again.
Trager then went on to work with Brent Bolthouse as the Managing Partner of Babylon Restaurant. It was a Babylon Restaurant Trager felt the need to open his own establishments in order to take the customer’s needs first and foremost.
In 1998 Trager formed Vintage Bar Group with the intent to own and operate bars with the same theory that the TV show Cheers was based on and that is to make everyone who walks into a Vintage Bar Group establishment feel like a celebrity the minute they walk through the door and to provide those customers a place where the staff not only knows its customers by name but their drink as well.
Mr. Tragers philosophy has had a proven track record over the past 12 years launching six successful lounges, Daddy’s Bar & Lounge, The Well, NoBAR, The Woods, The Fifth and El BAR all of which Trager’s company, Vintage Bar Group, currently owns and operates today excluding Daddy’s which closed in 2006 due to condemnation.
Vintage Bar Group is currently expanding its services to include both business and design consulting as well as providing full service liquor catering for events. It is Trager’s long term goal to open THE TRAGER, a full service hotel in the Los Angeles area. http://www.vintagebargroup.com
Specialty Cocktails
Latin Lover Martini
Passion fruit Vodka, Patron citronge, sour mix
And A splash of cranberry juice
Chilled straight UP
9.00
EL LYCHEE MARTINI
KETTLE one Vodka with lychee and simple syrup,
Chilled straight up
9.00
THE BULL
Our signature shot served with Cuervo Platino
9.00
The matador margarita
Don julio silver tequila, licor 43 and
Fresh squeezed lime juice
Shaken and served on the rocks
10.00
Mr. c’s cucumber cocktail
Bombay sapphire gin with muddled cucumbers,
Fresh squeezed lime juice, simple syrup, sour mix
And a splash of Soda water served on the rocks
9.00
The Desperado MOJITO
Pearl POMMEGRANITE flavored vodka and st. germain
With fresh mint and lime juice
Served on the rocks
10.00
El bar sangria
Traditional red sangria 8.00
Or
Sparkling berry sangria 10.00
