Best Bartender: Kathy Doel, Zane’s
Kathy Doel is practically a fixture at Zane’s, tending bar at the Hermosa restaurant for more than six years. She’s totaled a lot of beverages in her lifetime, but what keeps her coming back, night in and night out, is the customers.
“It’s the people and the relationships that I build that I enjoy,” she said.
Though she’s happy that many customers come back for her signature cocktail, a lemon-basil martini, Doel is particularly proud of her memory for faces and, particularly, drinks.
“I’ll recognize a face,” she said. “Not always their name, but always what they drink. They could be gone for years and come back, and I’ll still remember it.”
“I don’t know what it is. A name will sometimes slip me, but a drink never does.”
1150 Hermosa Ave, Hermosa Beach. (310) 374-7488. ZaneRrestaurant.com.
