» The Bartender's Bartender
Meet Doug Quinn, the man behind the bar at P.J. Clarke’s, in New York.
He remembered what my companion and I were drinking, even though we had ordered just one round so far, and there were at least 35 people clumped around the bar on this early May night, and he was dealing—alone—with all the tickets from all the servers in the adjacent dining rooms, and he wasn’t writing anything down, not that I could see.Then there’s this:
He packs a double-wide opener so he can flick the lids off two beer bottles at once. When smoking was allowed, he carried 10 lighters, because some would get wet and some lost, and he didn’t want to lose a second or a step by having to fetch another.This profile is the first installment of the Tipsy Diaries, a new column by Frank Bruni, the former NYT food critic.
But being armed and agile isn’t the half of it. “A great bartender will get you a date for the evening, get you a job and get you a new apartment,” he said.
