Mas‘ Tomas (we think) chimes in on one of our most disagreed upon posts about asking bartenders to take back drinks based on the customer’s tastes.
recommendations are the lingua franca of restaurants and a good bartender understands that. if he/she makes a recommendation, or suggests a signature drink, you are within your rights to send it back if it doesn’t match your expectations or the bartender’s description. individual preferences for strength and potency aside, a well-made cocktail should be a delight, not a harrowing challenge to finish. a good cocktail is like good sex - both partners know if it’s good, both know when something is amiss. however, if you catch a bad one, or one just poorly mixed, don’t lie and say it’s great or you have never felt like this before. have the bartender taste it too. feedback is the second best tip you can leave an establishment, even if it hurts their feelings. sure, bartenders are always busy and don’t always have time to hold your hand as you experiment with alcohol or beverages you are unfamiliar with. stick with the basics, then, after you have established some level of trust with that bartender, let them take you where you’ve never been before. there should be respite in your nepenthe.
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so… we can write comments about the article that’s about a comment? about another article?
melt my face, that’s crazy.
Besides the new site design, cVillain is now looking deeper into local gossip. Just you wait, we might have another post next week on the comments to this post about the previous post’s comments.
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and we have to try to explain this to our children.
Since this thread has little chance of living long I would like to add this little bit i lifted form another site.
“She could hear him in the shower, singing “What I Like About You” in a tuneless howl, exaggerating the flourishes like every other bad singer who doesn’t know it. He was like a gigantic barnacle of pure loserdom clinging to her pristine hull. If she didn’t scrape him off, he’d pull her under the surface and she’d drown in idiocy. What was she doing here? Why couldn’t she ditch this moron? “
oh man you should link that. the rest of it might be funny too.
No, for Sniggliesville sake, no. I found it, and that is the only good part. The rest is an ad for the “M__ Audio H____ Home Theater Speaker System”. Blerg. It was on Woot if you really want to find it, but that was the only good part.
Tomas, I really appreciate your insight– thank you for stopping by the party! Your spicy dessert truffles, by the way, are devilishly heavenly.
hmmm,i hazily recall i traversed this ite last night whilst abit under the influence… i come home, ‘midst the rain with wine in hand and feel i am not yet up to the nature of the dialogue…
i may sit and stare at the computer, become one, and find my way back…{for good or ill, one can not tell)…
@4: Parlie, please don’t procreate, or go near my children. I’d rather not explain to them why “Uncle Parlies face is melting”.
I wouldn’t even let your kids have an uncle parlie…unless you can get used to hearing this:
“Uncle Parlie touched my pepe and made me play santa”
those are personal attacks, you guys.
Y’all remember that time he posted those crazy rants on cvilledining about Nazis, etc? That was hilarious. Can we get a linky-poo?
that was awesome and they went back and forth for days….somebody linkypoo, it’s classic.
Found it:
“Arsonists, Nazis, and Child Molesters”
A Conversation with Tomas Rahal, Owner of Mas Tapas Bar
http://www.charlottesville-dining.com/mas-tapas-bar-charlottesville.php
well done colfer… I look forward to reading this
After all this time, I’m still trying to figure out the connection between Arsonists, Nazis, and Child Molesters. I’m sure there’s one, but other than each one being generally of bad character, why would he choose those three? In any case, it’s hilarious.
and that, friends, is what happens when you send emails to people you don’t know. welcome.
If I stole gasoline and used it to burn down the house of a nazi, child-molester, would I get free dinner? What if I burned down the house of a nazi-child molester?
I would make you dinner!
Silmo. What have you got against nazi arsonist child molesters? Ever met one? Very well then.
/doesn’t believe in evil.
you have to believe in good to believe in evil.
also: an evil petting zoo?
How very dichromatic of you parlie. Here’s what I put to the mormons and JoHo’s (who do not appreciate me making knock knock jokes) that come to my door…
The concept of evil is intellectual and spiritual laziness. “Evil” is merely the catch all term we use to describe that which is beyond our capability to forgive.
Labeling is easy. Forgiveness, extremely difficult.
What would brian boytano do?
@21 Yo - Who said anything about evil? I chose them because of how they look and the color of their hair. I’m not an idiot
Evil is the catch all term I use to describe men.
Lu Sid, EVIL = eNVy Inducing for Lactators
you must mean mankind.
Thor=small hands
two Qs: 1. which cville bar is best-stocked with all the fixin’s? (i must try an Aviation cocktail, but it requires maraschino which might be hard to find http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/02/24/WIGGQBFEU81.DTL&type=wine )
2. what’s the going rate for a shot of pretty good stuff? (does $8 for a shot of Hendricks gin sound right?)