This is a good bar for sitting with your friends and talking, while enjoyingexcellent classic cocktails. The music we play is always at background volume,so you can enjoy your conversation without having to raise your voice. Thedrinks are seriously good and seriously classy, but this is not a place to debatehow long you should stir an Old Fashioned. This is a bar.Drink what you like, but we recommend cocktails above all. Our list is small but beautiful, and we trust you will ask the bartender for a suggestion. Wealways advise ordering the Cocktail of the Day. Who knows when it will beavailable again?

We do not have:

bad attitudes, a lack of patience, a door charge, a toilet charge, a wardrobecharge, any drinks companies paying us to stock crap brands, any products designed to appeal to the kind of people who watch more than one reality-TV show, untrained bartenders, energy drinks, low prices, loud music, tea or coffee,the policy of jamming as many people into the space as humanely possible, any problem with a beer and a shot of booze, any time for Paris Hilton*, too-small rocks glasses, too-large cocktail glasses, brandy snifters, sweetened cranberry juice, much vodka at all, neon straws (unless it’s Tiki Night), disco cocktails,small measures, any outstanding warrants for our arrest**, any desire to makenon-alcoholic cocktails, or a bar mascot (although we’d quite like to have asloth).

We do have:

Friendly staff, fast bartenders, double-frozen Hoshizaki ice for shaking and stirring, enormous globes of ice for liquor on the rocks, glassware freezers left,right and center, gorgeous liquor brands you’ll rarely see anywhere else (because they don’t have the money to buy their space on the back bar), faith inhumanity, belief in the small of a woman’s back, the hanging curve ball, highfiber, good scotch, years and years and years of experience, a deep and abiding love of good liquor, great cocktails and lasting friendships, enoughbitters to make Harry Johnson giggle like a fool, a tailor, owners who work almost every shift themselves, a belief that good drinks matter and grown-up people enjoy them, decent late-night snacks, excellent wines and beers, seats for everyone, late opening hours, a day off occasionally, and a lot of time for you.Thanks for coming.

***Welcome to Door74.

We are delighted that you could make it.

Except for Mr. Duff.Except for Mr. Duff, again

We’re not strict about very much, however life has to have

some

rules,otherwise you might as well go and live in France. Here are ours.

The Golden Rule:Behave as ladies and gentlemen.

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Thank you.

The House Rules of door 74

Please don’t be loud, rude, or annoying. Especially, don’t try to “hit on”or pick up” other guests. And gentlemen: remove your hats. Thank you.This is a bar, not your place of work: kindly relax. Please don’t use yourmobile phone, laptop or PDA. If it is

truly

unavoidable, then do so onlyin the restrooms. You may see the staff using

their

phones andcomputers; that is because this

their place of work.Enjoy our superb cocktails, but remember this is a bar, not a templeto drinks-related nerdiness. If you find yourself being overly picky ornerdy, please ask the bartender for a glass of cold beer with a shot of good booze on the side. Drink them both. That should fix you.Please entrust any weapons you may be carrying to the bartender.Revolvers must have the hammer down on an empty chamber,automatics must have the clip removed and blades must be sheathed.If you care to smoke, please do so outside Bar Feijoa, just a couple of meters further up the road, on the corner. door 74

supposed to behard to find.For the same reason, please say your goodbyes and arrange your triponwards before you leave us.

The Door 74 Autumn Cocktail Suggestions

On Board Yacht Marmion

Our suggestions this autumn are derived from, or inspired by,the writings of the late Mr. Charles Henry Baker, Jr, of Florida.The next update kicks in around 15 December, by the way.

Charles Henry Baker Jr. was the greatest bartender that never was - a bartender,that is.After a dull life in a dull office job, he used an inheritance to travel the worldextensively from the 1930s onwards, often to places still largely unexplored today.Everywhere he went, he drank the local cocktails and recorded them in his books

Jigger, Beaker & Glass: The Gentleman’s Companion

and

The South AmericanGentleman’s Companion

. But his books are much, much more than just cocktailrecipes. They are beautifully written, humorous and sharply observed travelwritings, and we commend them to you.What made him an honorary bartender, in our eyes, at least?Well, he travelled widely, loved extensively, adventured daily, got rich by marryinga beautiful 21-year-old silver heiress when he was 37, wrote the proposal for his books on the headed notepaper of his private yacht the

Marmion

, (onboard whichErnest Hemingway was a frequent guest) and he was probably responsible for thefirst printed occurrences in the English language of the words “ho” (as in nasty) and“ceviche” (as in salad). Despite a life of quite heroic alcoholic excess, he lived to be92.Mr Baker, we salute you!

We are indebted to the work of Messrs. Frizell and Doudoroff of New York City for their insights into the life of Mr.Baker, Jr.

On Board Yacht Marmion

all cocktails € 9,50

Fizz à la Violette, Cairo.

Old Tom gin, Crème de Violette, egg white, citrus, cream and soda.

We are most pleased to have a superb Old Tom gin in house (ask the bartender if you can touch the label) This drink from Mr. Ahmed Sollman of Cairo swaps Violette into a Ramos, both as ingredient and, intriguingly, asperfume.

Tequila

por Mi Amante

à la Don Stephen

Strawberry-infused tequila, strawberries, lemons, and a faint hint of Mexican vanilla.

Mr. Baker was perhaps too busy hunting, fishing and chasing women half hisage to explore the applications for his excellent strawberry-infused tequila – but our own Mr. Duff, free of most of those distractions, was not.

Super-Dry Martini Doble

(Best Cocktail in All Bolivia)

Beefeater Gin, Noilly Prat dry vermouth, bitter orange liqueur (as bitters) and Pernod (as drops).

The signature drink of Señorita Maria Angelica Cortesse of La Paz, “

who proved to be even more beautiful than we’d been told

”. Mr. Baker also foundit essential to describe Ms. Cortesse’s “

small delicious body with thoughtful curves in all the right places

”, the old dog.

Monk Antrim’s Manila Hotel Mint Julep No. 1

Fine bourbon whiskey, sugar, mint and a float of Appleton Extra Jamaican rum.

Mr. Antrim crops up again and again in the writings of Mr. Baker, and withdrinks this good who can be surprised? We include this drink for Mr. Fokke,himself quite the world traveler (but no monk). We ask that, in ordering thiscocktail, you alert the bartender if you hail from Maryland or Kentucky, sothat he may omit the rum. This cocktail must be pre-ordered 24 hours inadvance; give us a call.