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Your Bartender is Not Impressed by That Cosmo

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Boston’s bartenders are getting fed up with making your sugary faux martinis, Long Island iced teas, and (worst of all) Cosmopolitans, according to a piece in today’s Globe that ought to be subtitled “how to earn the bartender’s respect.” Instead, folks like Beehive’s Bertil Jean-Chronberg and Patrick Sullivan of Legal Sea Foods recommend upgrading to slightly less sickly drinks like the St. Germain heavy Yellow Jacket, or the rye-based Marlene Dietrich. Moral of the story: by the time you’re old enough to legally drink, you should be downing something that doesn’t taste like spiked Hi-C.

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Your Bartender is Not Impressed by That Cosmo