NYC Bar Owner Arrested for Setting Bar Aflame with Alcohol
Things got hot (doy!) last Sunday night at the Chinatown cocktail lounge Apotheke.
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Jun 15, 2010 at 02:05PM
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My friend Shalini just tipped me off to this bit of news on the NYT’s Diner’s Journal blog.
On Sunday, June 13, the co-owner of Chinatown bar Apotheke was arrested for performing his signature move: pouring alcohol on the bar and lighting it on fire.
I’m not going to pretend I didn’t recognize Apotheke immediately as the cocktail lounge recently featured on “The Real Housewives of New York City.” Go ahead and judge me if you like, I have no regrets about vicariously accompanying the Countess Luann on her first date with Court Somebody, the author of a hit book called Scandalocity.
I was there for the whole sexy mess, people, including the point when the countess and her escort stood up to watch the tender set the bar on fire. “Is it getting hot in here?” quipped Court. “Oh yeah!” said the countess. Or maybe she didn’t. But that’s how I remember it.
Anyway, let that be a lesson to you local bartenders: Don’t go getting fancy and pouring the booze on the bar when you’re making a blue blazer or whatever.
Yup, that’s all I’ve got for a local tie-in. Kind of sad, isn’t it? But seeing as this post is already a trainwreck, I might as well take the opportunity to point out something I love about the Countess’s single “Money Can’t Buy You Class.” I love how she keeps saying “my friends,” as if she were John McCain giving one of his disasterous campaign speeches. Oh yeah!
Tags: Cocktails, Seattle Bartenders, Booze News
Fun post! My friend lit himself on fire twice doing flaming shots. Two times!
my little brain cannot think of any song that could possible be worse than this one.
I keep wanting to watch the video, just for the horror of it, but I get to the end of her first line and I am so mortified by proxy for her that I have to immediately shut it off and do something else to put it out of my mind. How? How does a brain process this information and spit out, “That’s a GREAT idea!”
Hilarious. I have seen this done before, but police were never involved!
nice post…fun
Greg, really? One word: JEDWARD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Effq09PDy8k&feature=related