Bar Tab is a literary journey through the world's best bars and the people who drink in them.
Instead of focusing on the latest trends or 'Instagramable' serves, Bar Tab focuses on atmosphere and narrative. Who is drinking at this bar, and why?
The concept owes a lot of gratitude to this quote from David Wondrich (from this interview):
Most drinks writing and cocktail writing focuses very heavily on the bartenders these days, and almost none on the customers. It's always curious to see how the customers receive these things. What kind of people go to what bar, what the social scene is. That I would like to see chronicled a little better. There are people who do it, but it's not as common.
I mean, no customers, no bar, right? It's a social thing, social drinking. The social aspects I think are really interesting.
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“That's all we do, isn't it -- look at things and try new drinks?” - Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants
