The Rye Bar has a new manager and head bartender.
Elli Benchimol is now leading the charge at the whiskey bar. Benchimol, an Advanced Sommelier, has worked at such places as Range, Aggio, Againn, Rasika, Chef Geoff's and Adour (before that, she was in San Francisco).
Benchimol is working to earn her Court of Master Sommelier's final level of certification.