tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809593565521524498.post6032222832294343138..comments2024-01-16T01:06:36.276-08:00Comments on 52 martinis: Wednesday Cocktail Adventures Part I: Hotel du NordForesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00982757666919848355noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809593565521524498.post-2691143967241552732009-04-22T08:21:00.000-07:002009-04-22T08:21:00.000-07:00hard to say about the food - they hadn't started s...hard to say about the food - they hadn't started serving any by the time we left (8pm) which is why i found it a bit weird they suddenly wanted us to give up the extra table - there weren't really any customers yet. but, some of the people with me said they heard the food was good. so, don't know....Foresthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00982757666919848355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809593565521524498.post-48431284037770857302009-04-22T08:19:00.000-07:002009-04-22T08:19:00.000-07:00at the China Club it did not even seem a possibili...at the China Club it did not even seem a possibility to get both drinks at the same time, at least we were not offered that choice. i did not know this about Mexico but i am not so familiar with resorts there.<br />the Hôtel du Nord seems pretty, i only know it from the movies and in my childhood the place was pretty run down. did the food seem any good?columbinenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809593565521524498.post-86826882506847267542009-04-22T04:31:00.000-07:002009-04-22T04:31:00.000-07:00Hi Patricia...slightly more positive follow up com...Hi Patricia...slightly more positive follow up coming...just been too busy to get to Part II!<br /><br />Columbine: I am absolutely with you on the 2/1 happy hours. This is fine if you are with someone and you both want to order the same drink, but I prefer having a choice of lower prices drinks at happy hour. It's like when you go to bars in resort towns in Mexico and you order the happy hour beer and somehow 4 beers appear on your table...don't know if anyone else has had that experience, but it's happened to me a number of times there. Also, I had heard the China Club had reopened - but wasn't sure, so will check that out.Foresthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00982757666919848355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809593565521524498.post-1900077920584823692009-04-17T07:24:00.000-07:002009-04-17T07:24:00.000-07:00vodka in cocktails make me stomach sick and it has...vodka in cocktails make me stomach sick and it has happened that i get given vodka by mistake...<br />recently i was at the China Club, rue de Charenton, it had closed a couple of years ago and then reopened again recently, virtually unchanged. the cocktails were average but the place is really pretty, even if in the same style the Tsé is even prettier. what i did not like, it was my first happy hour in France and as i realised, it does not mean same thing as in England. at least as i know it there, drinks are half price but apparently in France it's two (same) drinks for the price of one. as much as i love cocktails, i don't approve of "forcing" people to drink more than they want originially. in fact, having not yet eaten, i did not want to take too much alcohol (happy hour was between 6 and 8 pm). i told politely the waitress what i thought and she lashed out at me lecturing me about the meaning of "happy hour": happy space hour she said as it was self explanatory. as i know it, originally happy hour was meant to bring people to bars at hours when they don't show up en masse, not to make them over drink. i don't really see why she had to be so aggressive about it since i told her i liked the place and would come back...columbinenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809593565521524498.post-51056887193695426222009-04-16T17:22:00.000-07:002009-04-16T17:22:00.000-07:00I almost hate to say "Part II has to be better tha...I almost hate to say "Part II has to be better than Part I" since that almost always results in even more disastrous results.Manhattans in Bostonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784229591340922365noreply@blogger.com