I was thinking back to when I first got out of the Marines. I knew without a doubt I wanted to be a bartender. So I found the best bar tending school I could, which was in San Francisco (I was in Monterey).
I went to bar tending school and got hired to work at a very nice restaurant on the wharf in Monterey.
Vinny (that’s his real name) was the head bartender there. He’s the one who really taught me how to tend bar.
Vinny was from New York and had been bar tending for over 30 years. He was in the middle of his fight with cancer when I first met him. He was doing chemo a couple days a week. Click Here to Read More…
