years working as a barkeeper on the ship rustling up cocktails for stars such as dolly parton for telly savalas and other celebrities he created a number of recipes and has since published them in a book. shop and said i made one recipe for tom cruise and he was having a party in his room he almost never came out of a suite. so they told me to go up and make cocktails for. he said he wanted a might. very well known cocktail. is normally a very strong cocktail with a lot of alcohol in it. so i made him a version that was a lot softer and gentler. i thought from samples to manual and ali both live in their home city in belgium again after being abroad for so many years many will return home in the year two thousand and opened his own bar in antwerp the fulfillment of a long held dream. there was a pretty risky move because back then there weren't really any cocktail bars in belgium not at all and i didn't want to serve beer there are lots of cafes that can do that i just said i'm going to do my thing what i've learned to do we're making mocktails and cocktails. without alcohol when manual instant