Sitting in the Esplanada hotel. Realizing that it could be one of my favorite places on earth. There is a constant sea breeze, good food, a stream of interesting people and often live music.
Long time readers may remember my fawning over this place a year ago, but my trials at getting a rum and coke. If you don't you can read about it here.
This year I was in the same mood. There was a band playing some great cover tunes. I thought I'd try again. Maybe to see if they'd remembered anything. I called the staff over and asked for a rum and coke.
Hmmm. This was promising! The place may be stepping up! I chose the latter.
I was sitting with a view behind the bar, so I could see what happened. I watched her go and pour a shot of rum and pull a can of coke out of the fridge and put them both on a tray. She told the other bartender to ring up what she was making. The other woman snapped something like, “serve it with ice!”, because the first bartender went and got a glass of ice. And put it on the tray.
Then the second bartender barked, “serve them together!” The first bartender got a third glass and dumped them all together and brought it to me. Success!
