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Cocktails at the Eldridge, rediscovering your palette.

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SCV: Mmh, I like it, I wonder if she’ll let me try some more…?

JG: Oh no, don’t worry, we can always get you one from the bar in a jiff. 

SCV: Well if you insist…I’m curious why does everyone always want to be the bartender? It seems there is this great pride in serving these amazing drinks.

JG: It’s true, it’s become a lot like gourmet cooking, but the mistake a lot of people make is to add to many flavors and by doing so they take a great idea and dilute it. After all there’s a reason why the staples gin and tonic, vodka and tonic are the stalwarts.

SCV: Because they don’t over complement the drink?

JG: It really has come down to the nuances of taste. I think that’s why the shiso leaf is here to stay?

SCV: SO does Matt pay you enough to be here?

JG: (laughing) We’re happy to be here, we think the location and vibe complements the sensibility we’re trying to reflect and get our audience to embrace.

SCV: Final question- talking about gin- what’s your most favorite gin?

JG: It has to be Plymouth. It’s got the most oldest known distillery known in the world, and if there’s one thing the English excel at it’s gin- which essentially is flavored vodka.

At which point I let Jamie go, headed up to the bar to claim my own version of the Essex, before giving up and looking for the femme fatale who’s Essex I had so cavalierly drunk from before she approaches me and shows me her empty cocktail glass;

FF: Is this what you were looking for?

SCV: Did you really have to finish it? 

FF: (holding it tantalizingly close) Yes, but there’s always more.

SCV: (taking a tiny step forward) Yes there is always more. Shall we …?(as we head up to the bar….)

(Ahh life of a dilettante and the cocktails he chooses to crave that crave him and the downtown set in return…)

What was your name again…?

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Matt and Scallywag.


 

 

 

 

 

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