The Absinthe Group (TAG), founded by food-industry veteran Bill Russell-Shapiro, creates and operates unique, high-quality food enterprises throughout the Bay Area. TAG includes Mad Will’s Foods, specializing in bottled-foods production at Auburn in the foothills of the Sierra, and a carefully built collection of six businesses, five of which are located in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco, overseen by seasoned restaurant- and wine-manager Eric Vreede. These include the newly opened Boxing Room, Absinthe Brasserie & Bar, recently named a San Francisco Chronicle’s Top 100 restaurant under executive chef Adam Keough, and Absinthe Private Dining, Arlequin Café and Food-To-Go, Arlequin Wine Merchant, and, in partnership with former Absinthe head bartenders Jonny Raglin and Jeff Hollinger, Comstock Saloon in North Beach.
A new Absinthe Group website will launch in early 2012.