Rising Star Jay Carr of The Eddy - Biography

Rising Star Bartender Jay Carr is the craft-cocktail proselytizer and bartending force who’s helping establish a strong cocktail culture in Providence. He serendipitously became a partner (and behind the bar spectacle) at The Eddy when preparing to leave for Boston. By chance Carr heard a business partnership had just fallen through, and he jumped at the chance to help build a business and serve as head drinks slinger when The Eddy opened December 2012.

Carr mixes like a perpetual-motion machine, and works noon-to-wee-hours shifts. His skills and ethic come from solid training grounds: Cook & Brown Public House and The Dorrance, as well as time spent in New York City. His menus are as intriguing and balanced as his drinks, with the classics alongside his classics-in-the-making. Carr thrives in this small neighborhood bar that he’s made into a packed-house citywide sensation. And with his bartender’s choice program, he’s teaching the city how to never sleep, late night after late night.