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"  Sarah Maguire, 27, Bartender The City Tavern Philadelphia How&amp;#039;d you get here? Well, I&amp;#039;m actually a lawyer, and I had a fellowship at a nonprofit doing legal work. I needed a job to kind of fill in the gaps for pay, so I started serving at the City Tavern, really liked it, and then got to work as a bartender. The best bars are ____. Gastropubs. I think the best bars are bars that serve good food. That&amp;#039;s actually a good way to judge a bar. You usually find more knowledgeable people than you would at some corner bar. What has bartending taught you about friendship? I&amp;#039;m pretty much friends with everyone I work with, and they start to trickle down and unload everything that has gone wrong during their shift. There&amp;#039;s something about leaning against a bar. I don&amp;#039;t know what it is. I really don&amp;#039;t. Just makes you spill your guts. What&amp;#039;s your favorite fictional bar? One of the bars they go to in Mad Men. I&amp;#039;d love to go hang out in one of those bars where everyone is dressed to the nines, and everyone&amp;#039;s drinking good cocktails like Manhattans and old-fashioneds. What have you learned about people&amp;#039;s moods? If you&amp;#039;re in a bad one, drinking is not going to help you. It&amp;#039;s just a shame, because you&amp;#039;re not enjoying your microbrew or your $15 high-end cocktail when you are crying into it or pissed off about something. I think you need to reserve drinking for those beautiful days when you&amp;#039;re feeling, you know, good. What do you wish people didn&amp;#039;t order? Long Island Iced Teas. Not only do they have seven ingredients, but they are disgusting. If you are not between 21 and 22, you should not be ordering a Long Island Iced Tea. What&amp;#039;s the last thing you&amp;#039;d drink in a liquor cabinet? I don&amp;#039;t know if anyone even has this in their liquor cabinet, but Chambord. It&amp;#039;s disgusting. It&amp;#039;s Robitussin. What&amp;#039;s the most underrated drink? People around my age and younger don&amp;#039;t really appreciate straight-up Jameson. It puts you in a different kind of mood when you&amp;#039;re drinking something like that, rather than a beer. What kind of a drinking town is Philadelphia? I think we&amp;#039;re definitely a beer town. It&amp;#039;s really nice to be able to go to a bar in some neighborhood in Philadelphia and see that they have beer that&amp;#039;s produced in your neighborhood, fifteen minutes away, as opposed to any of the other crap you could drink. I really like that about Philadelphia. A customer says, &amp;quot;Surprise me.&amp;quot; What do you make? A Cooler, which is a specialty cocktail at the City Tavern. People tend to hesitate to order it because it&amp;#039;s whiskey, rum, and brandy, together with apple cider, but once you try it, I mean, it&amp;#039;s pretty hard to turn down. What&amp;#039;s it like at City Tavern on July Fourth? Pretty hectic. It is the heart of the historic district down here, and we have a dining room on the second floor that was actually the second largest ballroom in colonial America, and it&amp;#039;s where they celebrated the first-ever Fourth of July. Once people hear about that, or they stop in and find out, they get pretty excited. Which Founding Father would you want as a bartender? Not John Adams. Don&amp;#039;t like him. I would probably say Alexander Hamilton. I feel like he&amp;#039;s a bit wily. I think he&amp;#039;d be fun. Which Founding Father would you like to serve? Thomas Jefferson, only because I&amp;#039;d like to have a word with him. I feel like we need to discuss a few things.  What&amp;#039;s your drink of choice on the Fourth? A really cold Sam Adams out of the bottle. What do people ask for on the Fourth? The Founding Fathers all had recipes for beers, and they would brew them themselves, so people always want to try the beer. We actually have a sampler, where you can try about four or five ounces of each of the four beers that are brewed specially for us by a local brewery. What are people really celebrating on the Fourth? Probably, they&amp;#039;re celebrating fireworks. I really think that that&amp;#039;s all anybody thinks about on the Fourth of July, unfortunately. It&amp;#039;s nice to work at a place that provides a little bit of meaning. PLUS: Read More Bartender Wisdom on Eat Like a Man &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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