Ryan Rezvani

Teaches at Peterson Garden Project

Ryan Rezvani is the cocktail director and head bartender at Ampersand Wine Bar in Ravenswood. He also is co-founder/co-creator of the bitters company The Bitter Ex, Chicago’s only handmade bitters company. A Loyola University graduate, he was a CPS teacher for too many years, so he turned his passions and enthusiasm to the Chicago bar and restaurant scene, learning the painstaking details and creative process of making all elements of a cocktail (short of distilling his own alcohol). Making bitters, shrubs, & syrups has become one of his niche areas of mastery, showcasing his efforts within Ampersand’s cocktail program which Phil Vettel of the Chicago Tribune referred to as “impressive”. His company The Bitter Ex will be launching their first line of production in summer/fall of 2016.