Get to know Kelly Lynch, who’s mixing up good libations behind the Watts & Ward bar.

Hailing from Connecticut, Kelly Lynch has made quite the name for herself as a top mixologist at Downtown Raleigh’s Watts & Ward—and via concoting her White Negroni creation at our inaugural The Cocktail Classic, presented by The Exchange Raleigh, last month (!). And don’t miss her cocktail making skills on CBS 17’s My Carolina segment!

While The Cocktail Classic has concluded, the competition isn’t over yet. … Be sure to cast your vote for your fave ’tender running for 2023 Bartender of the Year now through Dec. 15! 

Fave drink to make?
A Miller Lite (kidding!)—a gimlet

Least fave to make?
Anything with pineapple… I’m allergic! 

Your go-to drink order?
A boilermaker

Fave Raleigh bar (not your own)?
William & Company

Fave Raleigh restaurant?
Stanbury

Fave cocktail book?
Death & Co. 

Show you’re currently binging?
Psych

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