Trust Your Bartender.

The bartender is your best friend.

Bartenders tend to be an overlooked and neglected species. Having served in that capacity in an ad hoc manner, both in Williamsburg’s Corner Greeks and The Lafayette Restaurant – I can attest to that. So in the words from the Hotel Inter-Continental Stephen Fry Bar menu

TRUST YOUR BARTENDER!

Let the bartender mix you a drink, tell him your mood or desire.

As I write about this exciting town, the music, the food the people, I am recalling Candace at the Drisskill’s observation of W Hotel, “Yes, the Secret Bar, or “The Redroom” and the girls, it looks like Amsterdam”.

To repeat myself on the charming Katherine,   Who so eloquently said -

“No cell phones at the bar. It’s a corporate world out there, find an office.”

Experimenting at the Kenichi Restaurant and Lounge  we ate samplers at the bar and had a great guide  to the experience, while not the bartender, this expert waitress introduced us to fusion oriental dishes.

We started off with a cold Saki, Suisham (in the green bottle). The meal covered an experience from seaweed to Black Cod with lemon confit my ova which had been marinated for 72 hours.

Well then. All said and done there is wisdom to the entreaty to “trust your bartender”. Get to know him or her, establish a relationship, choose to call him or her by another name.  I call The Trellis’ Brentley by the name “Zach”, in turn he calls me “Bob"!

Cocktail

Suisham Saki