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Upstairs Bar at Pravda
Experience: 12 years

Signature drink?
Dabney's Winter Special - hot tea, honey, cognac, lemon

Most popular drink?
Cosmopolitan

Most unusual request?
Gin and coke

Best thing about being a bartender?
Meeting fascinating people

Worst thing about being a bartender?
"Unpleasant" customers

Favorite drink?
Smokey Martini - "A woman once described it as easing a spoonful of love (Scotch) into a vodka martini."

Favorite bar story?
One time Bruce Willis came in. We looked at one another for a few moments, and then he came over and said, "Let me have one of those cowboys." He was referring to a box of Marlboro's. I sold him the cigarettes, and we then proceeded to chat it up for a while.