Bar Flores

kakawcacao, chocolate

status

in use

since

Baltimore, 2023–

licence

MIT

filed

𝋢Flores 2A

A home cocktail bar I run out of wherever I’m living. Bar Flores is the name I’ve given the corner of my basement dedicated to hosting friends and over-engineering the experience.

The software itself is open-sourced and I welcome any fellow enthusiasts taking a copy.

The bar

I do a themed menu roughly once a quarter (read: once per notable gathering occasion) with a few signature flavors. I always have plenty of mocktails, and aim for fast prep times. Each menu is inspired by a season, holiday, or place I’ve been recently. Since I travel frequently for work, I make a point of trying house cocktails to find inspiration.

Some recurring obsessions:

Fruit juices in lieu of syrups

only when fresh, particularly when unusual for the area

Spicy cocktails, featuring mole and hot sauce

yes, in a drink

Unusual liquor flavors from around the world

and by world, I mean Total Wine

If you want a preview, come over.

The tech: BarMenu

To run Bar Flores I built BarMenu — an open-source cocktail ordering system, menu system, and inventory management system. It’s MIT-licensed, so fork it.

What it does:

Themed QR menus per event

Guests scan, browse, and order without an account

Live bartender queue

with audio cues and keyboard shortcuts

Menu and drink CRUD

with drag-to-reorder, per-menu branding (colors, fonts, logo)

Inventory and ingredient tracking

with optional barcode scanning integrated to public ingredient databases

Popularity analytics

what got ordered, what didn’t, who repeated

CSV import/export

for moving menus around, starting from someone else’s recipes, or faster mass entry

Stack: React 18 + TypeScript + Vite on the frontend; Node 20 + Express + Drizzle ORM + Neon Postgres on the backend; sessions, rate limiting, the boring-good stuff.

Code on GitHub

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