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- 2 oz. Lillet Rose
½ oz. Green Chartreuse
Rub 2-3 mint leaves inside of julep cup, then discard leaves. Add Chartreuse & Lillet Rose, fill midway with crushed ice. Swizzle or stir to agitate and incorporate, then add more crushed ice. Top with spanked mint sprigs. Garnish with mint.
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Pouring Ribbons - 6 bottles wheat beer
6 oz. gin
4 1/2 oz. St-Germain
3 oz. lemon juice
3/4 tsp. sugar
3 dashes orange bitters
3 oz. grapefruit juice
Combine ingredients in a pitcher with ice. Garnish with grapefruit peel. - 1 1/2 oz. vodka
3 oz. tomato juice
1 dash of Worcestershire sauce
Celery salt
Ground pepper
Hot pepper sauce to taste
Horseradish to taste (optional)
Combine ingredients, shake and garnish with a celery stalk and olives. - irish Whiskey Writer's Tears 1.25
Green Apple Syrup Monin 0.75
Lemon Sour 1.5
Green Apple Garnish - 1 oz. Bailey’s Irish Cream
½ oz. butterscotch schnapps
½ oz. Goldschlager cinnamon schnapps
Combine ingredients, shake, strain, & pour into shot glass. - 1 1/2 oz Tito’s Handmade Vodka
3 oz unsweetened iced tea
3 oz lemonade
Just add Tito's Handmade Vodka, tea and lemonade in a collins glass with ice.
Stir and garnish with a lemon slice. - 1 ½ oz. Grey Goose
½ oz. Triple Sec
3 oz. Margarita Mix
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Combine ingredients. Shake and pour over ice in an old-fashioned glass. Top off with Myers’s Original Dark Rum. Garnish with lime wedge.
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Tacoma, WA - Bacardi Silver
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fresh blueberries
fresh blackberries
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Key Biscayne, FL - 2.5 oz. Bourbon
2 oz. Drambuie
1/2 oz. Succo lime
1 oz. Miele
Nicola Lorenzo
Disapore
Pescara, Italy - 3 parts London dry gin
2 parts spiced rum
2 parts ginger ale
1 part elderflower cordial
Juice squeezed from 1/4 lime
Lime peel
Shake well with ice, strain into Martini glass. Squeeze 1/4 lime into cocktail. Serve with lime peel and single ice cube.
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Cafe Goût
Hampshire, UK
Last October 2009, I bartended a private party at the old home that was once leased and lived in by actress Jean Harlow in the late 20’s and early 30’s, on 512 N. Office for mac microsoft download. Palm Drive, a several block street sitting between Sunset and Wilshire. This was her last residence before she died.
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It is also on record that Rita Hayworth once lived in the house, whether lease or own, I don’t know. Built in 1928, the home is a lot bigger than it looks, with the 4,400 sq. ft having 5 bedrooms and 5 baths. In 2000, it sold for 2 million. In 2007 it sold for just under 4 million.
We needed two bartenders for the evening’s guest count, so I called in Tami Ross, to work alongside.
It was my second or third time working a party there. I was able to take this shot (above) of the bar in the house in its original condition, as we were prepping up from about 5:00 pm to open it at 7:00 pm for about 100-150 guests. To think of the cocktail parties they had at the home way back in the day! In the backyard is a lighted tennis court and plenty of room to relax and enjoy the afternoon, or evening! I wondered if they ever made Mojitos as much as we made that night, as well as many other drinks of choice, along with a selection of wines red and white, and a few different beers.
One can imagine Clark Gable making drinks behind the bar, as Harlow and Gable, who called her “Sis”, were best friends. William Powell, Walter Huston, Louis B Mayer as well as many other possibilities. Unfortunately, Jean died in 1937 at the young age of only 26, from a uremic poisoning brought on by acute nephritis.
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Jean’s real name was Harlean Carpenter. Born in Kansas City on March 3, 1911. Next year will mark the 100 year anniversary of her birthday, had she been alive today. She was also the godmother of Millicent Siegel, daughter of the notorious mobster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel. She had two famous superstitions: She always wore a lucky ankle chain on her left leg. Back then she had to be one of the first wearing an anklet. Her other is a lucky mirror in her dressing room. She wouldn’t leave the room without first looking in it.
Across the street from her lived Lee Duncan, who was the owner of the famous canine superstar, Rin Tin Tin. As the story goes, when the dog passed away at the age of 16, Harlow went over to the house and cradled the dog’s head in her lap.
Setting up the bar was always a bit of a task depending on if you’re using real glassware, as there’s basically no true backbar, and the underbar has the original stainless steel still in place. Therefore, mise-en-place always had to be as efficient as possible, though the wine rack built in the wall in back helped a little.
As you can tell at the bar, all the archways throughout the home remained the same, so pretty much the entire property inside and out was kept to its’ original style and architectural design. Fitting, given the history. Though a multi-storied home, I’ve yet to get the chance to peruse upstairs. Maybe next time. Due to security being out in front of the home before the guests arrived, I didn’t get a shot of the front, but it’s beautifully laid out with a veranda and fine tile up to the front door, and a waterfall in the open flat part of the yard.
When I was outside next to the truck putting my dress shirt on for the gig, I took a shot (below) of the front of this house before the sun went down, just two doors down at 508, that used to be owned in the 50’s by Marilyn Monroe and Joe Dimaggio, shortly after they were married. Marilyn idolized Harlow, as Jean was “The Original Platinum Blonde”.
The party went well for the most part. There’s always some imperfections that occur during the night, where the two of us side-by-side behind this bar makes for quite the compact movement, or somewhere else in the house where guests are hanging out and enjoying themselves, shuffling in the bar area, stepping out to the back patio, and appetizer tray-passers who have to weave in and out of the constantly moving floor.
I had Tami leave a little earlier after the bar slowed down later in the night, about an hour before I cleaned up the bar. Putting my sizeable bar kit back together, I closed up the bar except for an area of self-serve I set-up on the bar top for the remaining friends of the family, got paid, said my goodbyes and slowly walked out the front door. Sticking around long enough behind the bar alone, I was hoping for the possibility of an otherworldly visitation or two, just in case they wanted to make an appearance. I’m “open” as they say, to be their path of least resistance. No such luck this time around !
This bar gig is also written in as one of several location scenes of what would be the pilot show to a treatment for a one-hour dramatic television series I wrote a little over a year ago, titled “Life Behind Bars”.
The weather had changed in the previous hours of the bars’ peak volume period, as it was raining a light mist with plenty of new cloud coverage above. The temperature was perfect and slightly balmy on the skin. Maybe it had to do a little bit with a mixture of the night’s perspiration on my face and arms.
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The streets of Beverly Hills are wide for the most part, and very clean with tall palms. It’s not everyday you get to hang out and relax in an area like this, much less in the middle of the night, and the gorgeous slow rain that L.A. is always in need of, gently lit up from the occasional street light in the short distance.
My work is done for the evening. I can slow my mental gears down, shove my bar kit in the passenger seat of my truck, hang my collared shirt back up, light a smoke and go stand in the middle of the dark, empty street of the famous Palm Drive for a while, arms stretched out and up towards the sky, breathing in all the history of what once was, before I take the road home back over the hill and into the West valley.
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In honor of Ms. Harlow, I’ll leave you with two of her quotes:
“I was not a born actress. No one knows it better than I. If I had any latent talent, I have had to work hard, listen carefully, do things over and over and then over again in order to bring it out.”
“Men like me because I don’t wear a brassiere. Women like me because I don’t look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.”