Gareth began his hospitality career in the late 2000 starting at the Blues Room, a live music venue in Sandton, so as to sustain himself as he had studied music at the National School of the Arts and careers in the music industry are hard to come by.

Later he worked at various pubs and nightclubs but it wasn’t until 2004 that he had gotten his first real cocktail experience at Salvatore’s Restaurant, deep in the West Rand of Johannesburg...