To each their own.
Posted on 11/23/2014 7:21:27 PM PST by PJ-Comix
It’s 4:30 on a weekday afternoon, and you’ve got an hour until boarding starts for your connecting flight home for the holidays. You’re ready for a cocktail. Maybe even two. Which is fine—as long as you’re in the mood to party like it’s 1999. Because, on the whole, airport bars are still running 15 years behind the craft-cocktail movement.
In seemingly every American airport, you can find outposts of what might be called the Status Quo Ante Bar, where the spirits are uninteresting and the drinks indifferently made. While dining choices have been steadily improving, and good wine is easier to find—the commendable Vino Volo now operates at two dozen airport locations—with few exceptions, airports have been slow to offer quality cocktails.
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To each their own.
#1 with ginger ale. I like Canada Dry ginger ale but get Schweppes for tonic.
It's been a while.
But that's the one.
Martini. Straight up.
(just a little) dirty.
A pair of them.
Unless I'm in a Gunter Grass, Flounder-primitive mood, then it's three-to-five.
While I’m thinking of it, I also like having a Negroni - 1 part gin, 1 part red vermouth, and 1 part Campari or Aperol. Not what you’d expect. Killer.
I have yet to have a bartender mess up a double jack, neat.
to the author: getting a quality drink at an airport is the last thing that bothers me about airports. guy who wrote this must not understand first-world problems aren’t worth a pissy article.
Here, here!
“...airport bars are still running 15 years behind the craft-cocktail movement.”
File under: First world problems!
Just discovered Elijah Craig this year, have a bottle sitting in my liquor cabinet. Great stuff.
Putting ginger ale into Bushmills is a crime,or should be!
I was always satisfied with a shot of Jack and a beer.
I never cared to drink but I would probably love to hang around your late uncle. I’m a good nurser of sodas.
i've killed my share of Beefeaters, believe me... 8^)
Water in your bourbon? No how, no way. Manhattans neat. Ice is only good for chilling the glass. Why dilute good Blanton’s with water. Nectar of the gods.
“Lack of planning”. I have no sympathy and fail to understand the merits of this article. This is stupid. One of the first things I do when traveling is find out where I can source my own booze. Shots are a ripoff.
And the author is an idiot: Who quotes their own words for a closing sentence? I’m not even going to address the ‘mob guys’ bravado...
Me to bartender: Scotch on the rocks.
Him: What brand?
Me: There’s more than one?
The best was when I was trying to entertain a large-boned wahine and ordered a “Scotch on the rocks, neat”
My college friends thought the Who’s “Dr. Jimmy” was written about me and my Beefeater’s. I’ve mellowed much since then, but will still (quietly) enjoy my Beefeater’s gin & tonic.
Thanx for the tip. We recently had a Trader Joe's open in Broward County.
a double Glenlivet with 2 ice cubes.
No one carries Bowmore.
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