The name is Arbutus Bar and we are in Olhao, next to Faro. I had been visiting Olhao for eight years and it has a type of “end-of the-world” vibe like Provincetown or Key West (it attracts artists, bikers, and rock’n rollers!)
The drinks are supposed to be like the pleasure of discovering cocktails on early eGullet. If you’ve spent time in Boston 10+ years ago, it is supposed to be like Green Street Grill meets No. 9 Park’s bar; classics and a lot of 3 ingredient confidence.
That’s just the spot I want to be in. Will investigate my options.
The Romans called the arbutus “unedo” because you could only eat one.
They didn’t have distillation, though.
Oh, and this just popped up again, lo these many years later. I still stand by it.
“Bourbon is a great bang for the buck.” It won’t be long until every fact in this 2009 article is true again.
Somewhat still true. I just bought a 1.75L of Evan Williams Bonded for $28 yesterday.
Still not the ~16 year old cask strength George T. Stagg for $50 that we could get as much as we wanted back in 2008 though.
That works out to 1.6 cents a milliliter.
A $30 750-ml bottle of aged rum would be 4 cents/ml, and probably of fairly mediocre quality at that price. For $24 or so you can get a 750 of good vodka or just maybe gin, but that’s still 3.2 cents a milliliter, or close to double what the Evan cost.
thank god for bourbon.
Man, I miss being able to ride the B61 down to LeNell’s circa 2006 and take home an inexpensive bottle from a well-curated selection that today I’d never be able to find/afford.
As David says, at least there’s still plenty of good, affordable stuff out there.
Such a special window in time.