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Starting in March, get ready for banana daiquiris, blue Hawaiians and Mexican rum mojitos. A new cocktail bar housed inside a shiny silver Airstream is set to roll into downtown Phoenix. Valley beverage experts Colton Brock, Tyka Cheng and John Sagasta are teaming up to bring the new bar, named Baby Boy, to The Pemberton. The camper will park alongside other food trucks and trailers at the local business complex popping up in the yard surrounding a historic house on Second Street. The Pemberton also includes the new location of Film Bar, where customers can view movies at an outdoor theater. Other trucks and trailers in varying stages of opening on the property include Saint Pasta, Dino s Napoletana pizza and others. ....
Arizona Republic Career bartender Rhonda Benston Showman remembers the first time she set foot in a bar. When she was a young girl in South Dakota, she went with her father to the neighborhood watering hole. “It was dark and it had red leather booths and it had that kind of stale smell of beer and smoke,” she said. “I had a cherry coke and I’m telling you, I thought I had died and gone to heaven, I loved it.” After that, Benston Showman knew exactly what she wanted to do with her life. She s now in her 46th year bartending at the Renaissance Phoenix Downtown Hotel. ....