Jim Meehan

I decided to throw my name on the waiting list at PDT and see if I could get past the phone booth secret door, and after half an hour I was in and seated at the bar. After two cocktails and a generally nice experience due to the bartender and fellow patrons, I decided to buy the bar's book. Very glad that I did, it has a lot of cocktails that are to my taste. The tips on how to set up a bar and prepare drinks are less involved than in the Death and Co book, but contain the important bits (it seems, anyway!)
My only quibble is that it's not fully indexed by ingredients (there is a decent index, just doesn't include everything). I wanted to go back and find a cocktail that called for muddled green pepper (the Lawn Dart, so good!) and had to page through it looking for something that caught my eye.… (mehr)