Barfly Podcast S06 E11
listen here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/169913/episodes/19552205
Who’s afraid of Thomas Wolfe?
I had to turn around twice on the oddly interspaced one-way streets of San Francisco. That coupled with pedestrians who walk out in front of moving…
“She’s the Silver Peso personified”: Beloved bartender returns along with a beloved bar
It seems like every other week another long-established restaurant or bar is closing. But finally, there’s good news. Larkspur’s venerable local dive bar, the Silver Peso, is back!…
“You’re good” often means “Yeah, but you’re not”
It shouldn’t have been difficult. We were all there for the exact same reason. We often like to think of ourselves as unique individualists, but really…
Bar Psychology
When you stand where I stand, you’re called on to do many things. Sometimes a bartender is a listener, and sometimes they’re a talker, because not…
Whiskeys for the 4th, just like the Founding Fathers
As we get ready to celebrate the Fourth of July, which is both the “birth of our nation” and a consistent top four finisher in per…
Down and out and thirsty in North Hollywood
I felt like a cowboy in an old Western. I believe the word is “parched.” After a seven-hour drive from the Bay Area, we rolled into…
Just Kidding
The dreamy, dulcet dinner jazz tinkled throughout the lounge. A slowly revolving overhead fan kept the humidity at bay as best it could. It was a…
Warm weather calls for cool drinks
“The snozzberries taste like snozzberries,” said Willy Wonka about his flavored wallpaper in both the 1964 children’s book “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl…