Comments on Ice Bar: Bullshit or What?

The only real ice bar is one made out of ice. Entirely.

Like in the ice hotel at Quebec City, or the one in Norway.

We used to set up a bar on an ice shelf when I was in the Army, and man our drinks were cold.

But I think our enjoyment of them had more to do with the fact we had been going without sleep for a long time, and were near exhausted, so it just "tasted" better.

The steel martini glass is stupid, since the drink it contains is going to warm faster, unless you're in a freezing cold room. Ice strip? Great. The base will be very cold. What about your hand?

The important feature of the ideal martooni glass is that it is SMALL. Those 16 ounce jobbies you got at Crate and Barrel are worthless. Your drink will be room temp by the time you finish it.

It's also important to remember that the perfect martooni IS NOT the absolutely coldest one; you WANT some of the ice to melt into the booze. That's why you don't freeze your gin; you swirl it vigorously through cracked ice. Freezing the glass is OK, for the frosty look, but really it's straddling that freezing point you want, not 0 degrees Kelvin.

I don't see the point of the ice strip, myself.

Sounds like you're mixing up a batch as you speak.

Speaking of bars...

What's goin' in across the street, in the old Backstage Thrift storefront?...

This liquor license application is in the window, along with the giant Urban Beach Walk installation... http://www.flatchestedmama.com/

Notification Date: 7/12/2007
Business Name: GREY
Business Location: 1512 11TH AVE, SEATTLE, WA 98122-3904
Applicant(s): SLOW AND STEADY, LLC; GUTTRIDGE, ERIK TALLEY
Liquor License Type: SPIRITS/BR/WN REST LOUNGE +
Application Type: NEW APPLICATION
License Number: 402005

Is it the same Erik Guttridge as this?
http://www.friesengallery.com/

What is GREY?!

Any bar so dead that you can actually set your glass down isn't worth going to.

I would be concerned, using a stainless steel glass that's been siting on ice, that my tongue/lips to stick to it.

Grey is going to be a gallery space/bar, and yes, the owner used to work at Friesen Gallery.... don't know when they're opening, but they've been working away.

I made that print with a digital image that was 1.8 megs, 180dpi and max size 8.5x11. It took a lot of photoshopping, a box of Cheeze-It's, nearly 50 yards of clear vinyl, around 180 yards of cmyk foil and the help of Dave Bloomfield on the first night of the Block Party. I look forward to the opening of Grey. It should be a neat spot.

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