Lars Williams

Empirical Spirits

Born and raised in New York (USA), Williams began working in restaurants shortly after graduating from university. Among the places he has worked are the Aquavit and WD-50 (both in New York), The Fat Duck (England) and Noma (Denmark). Two years ago, he left the kitchens and helped to found Empirical Spirits, a distillation laboratory that researches the future of flavors by creating drinks from ingredients either ignored or unknown to the general public.