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The easy test to detect a good cocktailbar.
by Chang Noi
The waiter offers you a glas of plain water without asking!
big plus!
Because that's what the hard drinker realy needs: Water!
Make the coke test:
When you order a coke, it must come
in a small bottle plus an extra glass with grey!!! icecubes.
Coke out of the tube is a minus, coke in a glass from a liter bottle:
leave the house!!
Why grey Icecubes?
Only very cold Icecubes are dry and grey. minus 18 C minimum. better minus 25 C.
The Icecubes are there to cool your drink, and not to dilute it.
Waiter uses clear transparent icecubes out of a cooling box on top of the bar:
leave the house.
Make the Martini test.
The Martini is THE classic cocktail. Very simple and so difficult!
It can come in hundreds of more or less intelligent variations, to mark the individuality of it's drinker.
Waiter must ask how do you prefer it:
minimum he/she has to suggest is:
"olive or lemon twist?"
must ask: "which Gin do you prefer? Bombay or Tanqueray?"
Never Gordon's!!
What kind of Vermouth does waiter use?
Something else than Noilly Prat? Leave the house!
If the glass is not an already frozen one, waiter must put grey ice-cubes in the glass and let stand,
as long he prepares the drink.
Waiter has to look in the manual to prepare your Martini: leave the house
Advanced Martini test:
waiter asks:
"olive or lemon twist?", answer : "onion!"
that's a gibson!
waiter doesn't have pickled onions?
you can stay!
why to eat the olives/onions first?
never have a martini before breakfast!
Chang Noi says: shake your baby but not your Martini!
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