The dangers of flair bartending. I'd never heard of it either.
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Be Afraid
20 Sep 2007 04:29 pm
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Dang! Somebody beat me to the Office Space reference! But the really connection here is to that Tom Cruise vehicle "Cocktail", in which he was the Best Bartender in the World!
Dang! Two people beat me to the Office Space reference, and one beat me to the Tom Cruise reference!
Dang! Three people beat me to the Office Space reference, and two beat me to the Tom Cruise reference! Bars are awesome, and I couldn't give a shit how I get my double as long as its quickly!
"Honestly? Until you master the bartending part, until you practice so much that your fingers have bled, I don’t want you to even attempt flair." Preach it, bro.
Preach it, bro.
No. No. No. It's "Don't tase me, bro."
My favorites:
But I hate when people say, “Hey, you’re like Tom Cruise!” I’m nothing like Tom Cruise. That movie has probably done more damage for flair bartenders than anything else.
I’m just going to flip bottles, and it’s going to be real smooth and you may or may not notice it, and when you notice it you’re going to say, “Did he just do what I thought he did?” Yes, I did.
But I hate when people say, “Hey, you’re like Tom Cruise!” I’m nothing like Tom Cruise.
They demand to be taken seriously
when you notice it you’re going to say, “Did he just do what I thought he did?”
We're all such how'd-he-do-dats.
Welcome to 1988. You were what, five years old and mebbe had your first Shirley Temple?
shoot, I thought he said 'flare' and was really excited to read about it...
I just saw this past weekend a bartender in Georgetown attempt to throw some flair out there and fail miserably, dropping someone's martini out of the Boston shaker and drop it all over the floor. That was too sweet in a schaudenfreude way.
There’s a bar here called Front Page
Wait, the Front Page is still around? The one in Dupont Circle? And now they have flair bartenders? Yikes - that place sucked when I lived in DC a dozen years ago.
I've seen this on ESPN before, in that prized time slot at noon on Saturday. I think the world championships are held in Vegas. There is one guy who is like the Michael Jordan of flair, like just head and shoulders above anyone else, and he wins every year. He actually does some pretty incredible stuff.
Sooo... Matt doesn't actually get out much does he?
I saw one of these competitions on TV once, too, and, yeah, there was one guy who was totally better than everybody else. What seemed really lame about it, though, was that part of the competition was creating a new mixed drink --- but the new concoction --- you know, the part that actually had something to do with bartending --- was worth maybe 10 points, while the flipping around bottles part was worth something like 1,000 points.
What do I care? I almost never go to bars. I get my alcohol at the grocery store for like 75% cheaper than a bar.
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That's different than pieces of flair?
Posted by SoCalJustice | September 20, 2007 4:35 PM