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| "Air" & liquid nitro at "Molecular Bar" |
Has it been a month already?? Let's see. Three days in Bonita Springs, FL. Eleven days on board Celebrity Equinox. Three days upon our return to put on our fabulous annual Mardi Gras party. The party itself. Then two days to clean up. A week of not feeling well with some nebulous, nondescript illness. A very busy week of work and here we are. Yup. That was February.
Not much to report during this month on the mixology front. High marks for the Celebrity Equinox and it's contribution to bringing cocktail culture to the high seas. After six cruises now, I'd say Equinox has one of the best cocktail setups going. Yes, there is the so called "Molecular Bar" where a shorter, hipster version of Gordon Ramsey struts around behind the bar in his custom tailored chef coat mixing with liquid nitrogen and topping concoctions with all kinds of foams and airs and freeze-dried bits. But save our first night checking out the Friends of Dorothy meeting there, it was not our happy hour or after hours hangout. That honor was reserved for "Martini Bar" where very talented bartenders deftly mixed up classic cocktails as well as a bunch of other more contemporary specialty cocktails tailored to the sweet, modern palate. The coolest feature of the bar was the fact that the bar surface itself was frozen -- coated with the thinnest film of water and chilled to frost. Very cool.
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| The frosty top of Martini Bar |
The bartenders even do some fancy flair à la Tom Cruise in Cocktail. Naively, I thought we were lucky enough to have a very talented barman when we were there. But as this YouTube video will attest, it’s clearly a standard routine learned for the ship. The performance we saw was exactly the same right down to the configuration of the glasses for the pour.
More coming soon as we get back into the swing of things.
pretty impressive video...good to have you back :-)
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