by Jenn Harris

Before Vincenzo Marianella, the cocktail scene in Los Angeles, compared with London and New York, was a sticky wasteland of sweet-and-sour mix, triple sec and bottled lime juice. Then a 6-foot-4 Italian guy from a tiny town in Italy called Tolmezzo stepped behind the bar at Providence in 2005, started using fresh citrus and changed everything.

After playing professional basketball in Italy, Marianella worked at bars in Australia and New York City, then fell in love with cocktails in London, which he calls the greatest cocktail city in the world.

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