Food and Alcohol

 

 

Featured Bartender - March / April 2008

All right. We can only go to so many bars. And who are we to pick out your favorite bartender? We’ve got a new system. There’s a panel of experts. OK, that’s a fancy way of saying we have a group of friends that are bartenders and travel the city in search of the perfect purveyor of alcohol. They go and visit with bartenders that get recommended to us, and then they rank them on a scale of 1-10 on the following criteria...
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Featured Bartender - January / February 2008

This issue’s Featured Bartender holds a special place in this columnist’s heart. I met Brian some 13 years ago when he was managing Thurman’s 15 on the East Side, when I was the tender age of 21. Brian was my “first bartender,” so to speak, and it is purely due to his excellent (albeit sometimes surly) guidance that I have become the well-mannered, extravagant-tipping patron that I am....
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Featured Bartender - November / December 2007

I like the service industry, bartending better than serving; I like to set the music, the mood—to put on the show. Bartending is a lot like being on stage - everybody should be able to come in and discuss whatever...
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Featured Bartender - September / October 2007

Aggressive ass-wipes. You know who you are. Coaster issues. Bottles sweat, sloppy pours, what have you, coasters cure all. No fucking napkins. Don't call me Chief, Buddy, and don’t yell "Hey!" Don’t knock your bottle on the bar...