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Old 10-21-2012, 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by elchivito View Post
These clowns think they're chefs or sommeliers.
Recently in one of Sedona's toniest restaurants, their resident "mixologist", who didn't have a single solitary bottle of rye on his bar, REFUSED to make me a rocks manhattan. The server came to our table and sheepishly said "our manhattans are served up, in martini glasses". I hate martini glasses and I like my manhattans in a rocks glass, with rocks and a twist.
A quick conversation with the FOH manager convinced him that if his "mixologist" didn't have the skill to make a simple, classic drink served on ice at a paying customer's request, perhaps he'd hired the wrong guy. I was tending bar before the little puke was born. I got my drink, for twelve dollars. No wonder the wife doesn't take me out much.....
If I go to a bar, they have a bartender, not a mixologist.

Of course, I have heard some pretty off the wall stuff from sommeliers too... my favorite was having a wine described as 'barnyardy'.... and that was a good thing...
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