Holy, crap, I missed going to bars. Visiting the bars was one of my most favorite things to do when I blogged more regularly. A while back when I wrote about Alex Day’s last shift, someone left an amusing comment asking if I would be returning to Death and Co. now that Mr. Day was ...
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Click for larger view On Sunday, the Pegu Club celebrated its 5th anniversary, inviting folks to come drink and talk and reminisce. Yea, I’m not sure how else you really would celebrate a bar’s birthday except to drink and talk about the good times had in the place. The true thing of beauty for the ...
or The Post with a Lot of Picture of People Drinking I’m starting to think I should just have a tag called “last shifts” at this point. I seem to find myself at them quite a bit. But can you blame me? Who can say no to hanging out on a bartender’s last shift, especially ...
The other seminars I attended during Tales tended to be more of the geeky nature. Umami in Cocktails (Thursday, July 22)As usual, Darcy O’Neil’s seminar was chock full of information. Information you wouldn’t even think of asking about basic cocktail ingredients. I attended his seminar on sugars and sweeteners in cocktails that ended up making ...
I wasn’t sure why Eben Freeman and Linden Pride’s seminar on cocktails and Asia wasn’t included in the professional track of seminars held on Wednesday (though I guess super early on a Thursday morning is close enough). While the topic did touch on flavors in Asia and how to use them in cocktails a bit, ...
or, ‘What’s with all the Dutch angles?’ Look I was sitting at the table/bar business by the kitchen and I was trying to not bump into the people next to me, and that just makes it hard to control your angles and…you know what, here’s some pictures Dinner at Cochon, Thursday night Fried boudin with ...
For some session recaps: on Wednesday I sat in on some of the professional track seminars at Tales. The interesting thread that I noticed throughout the day was how many of the seminars were grappling with the realities of doing business in the bar and cocktail industry nowadays as cocktails are reaching sort of the ...
…or at least a better photographer than myself. You know, I kind of panicked yesterday because I thought I’d left my card reader at home, but apparently I brought the USB cable. So check this out. So you’re at Tales, and hanging out in New Orleans, you know, it’s kind of natural you might run ...
Who knows what the fates were conspiring when they put this coincidence together, but I arrived when I arrived at the Bienville House I found that we were not alone. And, er, by “we” I guess I mean the royal we? Or everyone attending Tales? Anyhow, when I arrived at the hotel I was staying ...