How did you get involved with the Queen Mary? But then I started staging at Sable and just wanted to do that.
A year and a half in, a friend came up to me and said, 'When are you going to start staging?' I hadn’t thought about it at all, but he said 'Great, you’re going to do that.' I had actually wanted to leave the industry, and had been going to school for illustration. I worked in restaurants for a really long time and when Sable opened, I was a cocktail server. We caught up with Bunni to talk about how she started bartending and what to expect at the Queen Mary Tavern. There, she and Dan Smith (Barrelhouse Flat) have crafted a cocktail program in line with the bar's nautical British theme.
Bartender Mony Bunni, who grew up outside Chicago and moved to the city “the very second” she could at 19, was at Sable Kitchen & Bar for five and a half years before opening Heisler Hospitality's Queen Mary Tavern as manager in November 2015.
