Sidecar Bartending

SIDECAR BARTENDING calls itself a Made-in-Michigan beverage experience.

Owner Kathy Sullivan started her Detroit-area mobile bartending business in 2015 when she recognized an opportunity to shake up the market by providing on-site high-end cocktails prepared by professional bartenders.

An “aha” moment came about a year into the business, when Sullivan worked an event with food trucks.

“I realized I needed my own version of a food truck,’’ she says. That idea became the Sidecar Pony Bar, a specially outfitted horse trailer that travels to events to serve up drinks, the first of its kind in the area.

Today, Sidecar can be found at a variety of events including weddings, bar mitzvahs, birthday parties, grand openings and pop-up corporate happy hours. At all of them, the common thread is Sidecar’s commitment to unique beverages crafted with local ingredients and served sustainably, such as using straws made from corn, out of a cup made in Detroit from recycled plastic.