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Let's Go Shopping!
Half the fun of the web, is how it allows you to browse through web based "catalogs" and order things from the comfort of your own home. Here, I'll attempt to identify some of the sites that I either use myself to assist me in stocking my home bar, or sites that at least look like they have some interesting products that they are offering.
The only sites I'll list here, are the ones that have a fully web-based ordering process. No need to phone, fax, or e-mail your order to some other source.
 | 67Wine
Wine Online, Spirits and Wine Retailer for the Manhattan area
What appears to be a great online store, but unfortuantely only ships locally at the moment.
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|  | A Best Kitchen
Restaurant, Kitchen, and Bar Supplies
For over 10 years, ABest Kitchen Company has been providing commercial quality supplies to restaurants, bars, and food service operations throughout Ohio, the mid-west, the U.S.A, and beyond. |
|  | Amazon Bar Tools & Glasses
Amazon's Kitchen Store offers a great selection of Bar Tools and related supplies.
Yes, Amazon sells just about everything, including cocktail shakers, glassware, bottle openers, and various other supplies for any home bar. |
|  | Best Crystal
Best Crystal carries an extensive selection of various types of beverage glasses, decanters, carafes, ice buckets and bar accessories.
Best Crystal provides a great selection of crystal, and related fine products from a variety of manufacturers. They've also subdivided their site so that you can focus on just the various glassware, serving pieces, and bar accessories related to cocktails, beer, and wine. |
|  | Beverages & More
Online source for Wines, Spirits, Beers, Specialty Foods, Cigars, and Glassware
BevMo is an online storefront for a California based liquor superstore. They provide a fairly large number of products, including the "Amer Picon" substitute "Torani Amer".
BevMo currently does not ship internationally.
Here is a graphic representation of their shipping policy:

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|  | Big Tray
Commercial quality restaurant and barware
Restaurants have access to products that we common folks rarely see in our local kitchen stores. You'll find a great selection of a wide variety of products here. |
|  | Bottles Up
Bar and Restaurant Supply, including products for the flair bartender
Carries a wide variety of restaurant and bar supplies products, primarily focused on the professional restaurant, but also sells to individuals. |
|  | Brand Name Bar Supplies
Selling products which boast the brand names of various beer and liquor companies
Currently, they appear to only carry a variety of "Guiness" branded products, but they hope to eventually carry products from many others. |
|  | CasaKaren
Doesn't the best cocktail, deserve the best cocktail shaker?
Fine silver cocktail shakers, and matching Martinera® make the limited number of products offered by Casa Karen worth checking out. |
|  | Central Restaurant Products
A restaurant and supply company located in Indianapolis
Central Restaurant Products has been in business since 1981, serving the Indianapolis area with high quality products at the best possible prices. |
|  | Charming Products
An extensive list of links to a variety of websites that sell almost any sort of bar product you could imagine
Whether you are a professional bartender, or just a home mixologist, I am sure that you will benefit from the links that Cheryl Charming has pulled together on her site. |
|  | Chef's Hat
Specializing in uniforms and apparel for chefs
This site presents a simple and straightforward collection of Pants, Jackets, Aprons, and of course Hats to meet the needs of almost any chef or sous-chef. |
|  | ChefTools
Dedicated to providing the best tools possible for the gourmet home cook
If you consider yourself to be a home chef, then you know that a great cookware store is more then just somebody offering up anything that happens to be available. You want to find a store in which the people running the store have the same passion that you do for finding the "right" tool for your cooking needs. If you want great clothes you go to Nordstroms, if you want great camping gear you go to REI, and if you want great cookware, then perhaps you should check out ChefTools.com.
ChefTools is a very new website being run by a friend of mine, Walter Kraus. It's something he's been working on for years, and finally has been able to see it come to fruition. The site itself is still a work in progress, and he is continuing to gather together the right product selection to meet the needs of his customers, but it frankly shows signs of providing home chefs, who have a passion for their cooking, with a great resource for great tools.
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|  | Classic Shaker Co.
Great cocktail shakers, in silver and pewter, that reflect the times of days gone by
When you are ready to spend a little more then pocket change on your next cocktail shaker, then that's when you know you are ready to check out the shakers being made by the Classic Shaker Co. They provide a limited, but astounding, selection of cocktail shakers using either the very classic "Pitcher" style, or even the more modern three part "Cobbler" style of shaker. Prices range from $160 to $3,500.
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|  | Deuster Company
A selection of bar supplies, bar products and odds and ends for your bar
Duester provides a selection of Barstools,
Bar Supplies,
Pizza Ovens,
Popcorn Machines,
Soda Fountain,
Travel Bars,
and various Wine Accessories
from their on-line website. While perhaps not sporting the most imaginative of design, they do appear to have a useful choice of selections.
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|  | Food Service Direct
Restaurant Supplies and Restaurant Equipment
A great selection of professional restaurant supplies. In their Bar Supplies section they include a wide variety of products including Bar Blenders, Bar Shakers, Glass Washers, Muddlers, and Straws. None of the frilly useless stuff you'll find in the shopping malls, just great no-nonsense products that can get the job done.
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|  | IBGifts
Specializing in authentic Irish oriented gifts
This is a general giftware company, located in Ireland. They currently sell a wide range of authentic Irish orientated gifts, fine crystal such as Tyrone Irish Crystal, Swarovski Silver Crystal, collectibles such as Belleek Parian China, Hummel and fine art by renowned local artists. IBgifts delivers to the USA, Canada and Europe.
They also have a small section that specializes in crystal drinkware. |
|  | Instawares
Restaurant, Kitchen and Janitorial Supplies online.
Located in Acworth, Georgia, Instawares provides a wide variety of kitchen and related supplies. They are also one of the few online US suppliers I've been able to locate which sell "Julep Strainers", a must for any serious classic cocktail enthusiast. |
|  | Internet Wines & Spirits
Online shopping source for wines and spirits
Located in Fairview Heights, IL, this company carries a fairly wide selection of wines, spirits, and liqueurs. According to their FAQ, they ship to all states except Utah, Michigan, Maryland, Massachusetts, Tennessee, and Kentucky, nor do they ship international orders. |
|  | Liquorama
Family owned and operated Fine Wine and Spirits shop
Liquorama is a California based Liquor Store located along the foothills of the San Gabriel Valley. They pride themselves on their vast array of Single Malt Scotches and Tequilas.
From their online store you can order a wide variety of wine, and spirits, as well as view their online newsletter of weekly specials.
Liquorama currently does not ship internationally, you can check here for information regarding their shipping policies. |
|  | MartiniPic
Why let your olives just roll around in your glass, when you could have them speared on a cool cocktail pick like this?
The really serious pool players always show up with their own pool cues, carefully packed away in a little travel case. Shouldn't a serious Martini drinker show up with their own cocktail pic? |
|  | MartiniSword
The old plastic sword cocktail pick has grown up
If you can get past the frivolous sound files that play, and the occassional annoyance of a popup window, you'll find on this site an interesting collection of unique "swords" to spear that olive in your next cocktail with. |
|  | MartiniWare
Carrying glassware, shakers, condiments, and even clothing to satisfy your inner Martini
If you are into Martinis, then chances are good that you will find something here to satisfy your cravings. While they don't carry gin, vermouth, or bitters, they do carry virtually everything else you might need to make an excellent Martini, or almost any other cocktail for that matter.
In addition to the standard shakers, glassware, and "martini misters", they also carry jewelry, olive injectors, and even a great looking "Martin Mouse" just to make sure that your computer is also able to get caught up in the spirit. |
|  | Next Day Gourmet
Professional restaurant products for retail or wholesale
In addition to a very good line of professional restaurant supplies and products, they also provide a limited collection of food items, including steaks, pastas, sauces, oils, etc.
You'll also find some interesting reading material in their Cool Tips section |
|  | Nicolas Roberts
Online Wine and Spirits
They appear to ship nationwide, but their shipping information is a little vague, simply stating that "Many states restrict the shipment of wine. We apologize for the inconvenience if we are not able to ship wine and spirits to your area." |
|  | Sam's Wines & Spirits
Online shopping source for wines and spirits
Located in Chicago, Sams Superstore provides a very good selection of wine, spirits, and specialty food products. According to their shipping information page, they indicate that they do ship all of their products internationally, but don't indicate which States they are unable to ship alcohol to.
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|  | Silver Superstore
There are times when nothing beats a great piece of silver at the bar
While looking on the web for a source for Mint Julep Cups, I ran across this site that appears to sell a variety of silverware and silverplate products. Wine glasses, Mint Julep cups, Silver Beer Tankards, a pretty good selection, and at prices that look quite reasonable. |
|  | TailGator
When you absolutely, positively, must have a blended drink. No matter where you are.
Here is a website that once I saw it, I just knew I had to list it here, even though I shouldn't.
They don't take orders over the Internet. I haven't (yet) purchased anything from them. And frankly, I'm really not into "blended" drinks. But hey, this is my website, and I can do whatever I want to.
Even if just for a good laugh, I think this site is worth visiting. And if you happen to order one of their units, drop me a line and let me know what you think of it.
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|  | Tiki Objects by Bosko
Your best source for the finest Tiki and Polynesian pop products available
Planning a Luau? Looking for the perfect glasses to serve Mai Tai's out of? Well, Bosko appears to have just the right collection of glasses, lamps, artwork, and a variety of other fun objects for your bar. |
|  | Wallace & Hinz
Private and Commercial bars that bring to life the classic bars of yesteryear.
Wallace & Hinz is one of the few remaining companies in America that still specializes in creating the classic gothic bars that once were the pride of every "saloon" across the country. They can provide custom designed bars that fit in a modest $5k to $10k budget, or they can create for you a design that would suit a Rockefeller. |
|  | Wine Globe
Wine, Champagne, Whisky, Liquor, Wine Accessories and Gifts.
Wine Globe is an Online liquor store, specializing in single malt whisky, scotch whisky, bourbon, tequila, vodka, brandy and a wide range of other spirits. They also offer the "Amer Picon" substitute "Torani Amer".
Wine Globe currently supports some international shipments.
Here is a graphic representation of their shipping policy:
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