Category: bartending

  • My First Bartending Job: Part Two

    Wasn’t this post supposed to be about my first bartending job? Fear not, dear reader. It’s a long winded two parter and I’ll get to the point eventually. One of the best things about working at Sfoglia, aside from the money of course, was being closed on Sundays. It really helped moral. We were a…

  • My First Bartending Job: Part One

    In 2007 I landed a head chef job, after following a Craigslist ad, at a vegetarian restaurant in the Lower East Side. As I toured the basement kitchen with the owner and GM, chatting with them about this and that, shaking hands with the prep cooks, a couple of dire truths about the whole situation…