Comments on: Are fancy cocktails getting boring?

By: chalkman

chalkman — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:44:53 +0000

Locanda is making the best cocktails in the city right now

By: SFKix

SFKix — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:51:00 +0000

Thank you!

By: SFKix

SFKix — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:50:27 +0000

I agree, but for $10 at the Orbit Room, yum! Just get there early before it get’s crowded, you’ll wait for ever.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:03:23 +0000

Stage 1: OMG what is this overpriced yuppie shit!?
Stage 2: Hang on, these things are pure booze and taste good!
Stage 3: Buy every cocktail.
Stage 4: Now I’m broke, but my alcohol-addled brain vaguely remembers what ingredients tasted good together..
Stage 5: Check out this sweet home bar!
Stage 6: Get angry about paying $10 at a bar for a drink I could’ve made better myself at home.

Yeah, I think the original post pretty much nailed it.

By: Saftyfirst

Saftyfirst — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:41:16 +0000

How can you hate a cocktail? Thats insane. Your taking it too far people. I hope you also dont wear pajamas on airplanes.

By: D. Jon Moutarde

D. Jon Moutarde — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:22:48 +0000

“Circumstance”? What sort of circumstance?! Enquiring minds need to know!

By: Kristincan

Kristincan — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:15:24 +0000

The Orbit Room always stays seasonal and makes a VERY creative cocktail.

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:11:50 +0000

I don’t really know what to do in “cocktail bars”. I’m a beer-and-whisk(e)y guy. When forced by circumstance to order a cocktail, I mostly stick to Manhattans. (Pro-Tip: Next time you’re in Oakland for a show at the Fox, order a “VanHattan” at Cafe Van Kleef down the street.)

By: scum

scum — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:38:38 +0000

Yesterday the person next to me orders a muddled $7 drink leaves a $1 tip. I order a PBR and Beam Rye and leave $2. Less then half the time and twice the tip.

By: Brillo

Brillo — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:26:25 +0000

Agreed, tho I’d set the limit at 4 (I like a cherry in my manhattan)

By: Skidstheclown

Skidstheclown — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:53:16 +0000

Who wants to pay $15 for drink that takes 10 minutes to make, if you’re lucky.

By: moderniste

moderniste — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:24:57 +0000

and a big huge -1 to bars that are too lily pure to stock cranberry juice cocktail. Just get over it.

By: angryyoungman

angryyoungman — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:06:44 +0000

Amen to that. Pretentious bourgeois mofos, in fact.

A cocktail with more than three ingredients is like a cold remedy with more than three (active) ingredients — too complex by far. Gadzooks, I’m weary of waiting for a drink while the barkeep fiddles, flames, infuses, and muddles some gooey concoction for a ditz that is really just getting her ego stroked by being catered to. It’s like waiting behind the same ditz ordering a 27 word description of coffee at Starbux.

By: Tuffy

Tuffy — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 06:07:51 +0000

Bartenders don’t give a fuck. They give you what you order.

“Mixologists” are a different story.

By: yella

yella — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 05:04:46 +0000

Who gives a shit? Only teh gayz care about shiz like this. First world problems, for serious.