Tend the Bar
Tasty Phrases
Four Food
Hello and Goodbye
Final Jeopardy
200
Tending bar at an Irish pub, I've poured many a pint of draft beer from this 260+-year-old Dublin brewery; there's a technique, here--it's not just flip & drip
Guinness
200
You don't want your wine made with these, also a phrase about trash-talking something you can't have
Sour grapes
200
This slightly leavened flatbread is a big part of Middle Eastern cuisine
Pita
200
It's what "vaya con Dios" literally means
Go with God
200
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A New York Times headline about this disaster included "866 rescued" & "noted names missing"
The Titanic
400
I really do tend bar at the Gaf East on 2nd Ave. in New York City, where of course we serve this classic geographically named cocktail made with vermouth & American whiske
Manhattan
400
A fitting finish for a sundae, this idiom means to make something good even better
To put a cherry on top
400
That white crust around this soft French cheese is actually an edible mold of the genus Penicillium
Brie
400
Phrase used by DJs turning over a record; in an idiom, "I'll catch you on" it
the flip side
600
Whether you use the Angostura or Peychaud's brand, life has its share of these aromatic spirits used to flavor classic cocktails like the Old Fashioned
bitters
600
It refers to disclosing secret information, like when you accidentally dropped that pot of chili
Spilling the beans
600
This bean is alternatively known as the green gram, mainly cultivated in East, Southeast and South Asia.
Mung bean
600
These 2 words go with a chest thump or 2 & making a "V" with index & middle finger
Peace out
800
I'm a bartender, not a fancy-schmancy mixologist; I like pouring beer, whiskey & drinks with their ingredients in their names, like this classic combo juniper-berry liquor & carbonated water infused with quinine
gin and tonic
800
If you're the best of the best, you're this, mentioning a dairy product & a farming word
Cream of the crop
800
I guess someone is fixing to make gumbo, the pods of this plant are being cut up
Okra
800
You can welcome a guest to your "humble" this word for a dwelling, a phrase used by Jane Austen's annoying Mr. Collins
Abode
1000
I don't mind you bending my ear like Joe the bartender in a Sinatra classic, & I'll make this title drink, but it's 2022 & I'm not gonna pour you "one more for the road"
"One for my baby"
1000
You & your best friend may be described this way, involving a legume & its container
Two peas in a pod
1000
This root vegetable is a popular boba tea flavor
Taro
1000
Channel Charlotte the spider with these "greetings... my fancy way of saying hello"
Salutations