What would your favorite bar be like without your favorite bartender? You can't have Cheers without Woody, Sam, Carla or Rebecca, and you certainly can't have your local watering-hole without those special drink fillers. Knowing this, we've decided to feature a different local bartender each week and share who they are with you.  

So, grab your glass, fill it up, and let's toast this week's bartender of choice:

Matt, from The Venue

Hometown: St Louis

 

 

How long have you worked at The Venue?
Since the grand opening in February

 

Have you bartended anywhere else?
Frenchy’s

 

What is the most requested drink?
Cosmo

 

What is your favorite drink to drink?
Grand Marnier Neat

 

Where did you learn to bartend?
On the job in St Louis and Tampa and learned from other good bartenders

 

What’s your biggest pet peeve with bar-goers?
The old “Hook it up line” i.e. rum and coke and hook it up (wink wink)

 

What do you like most about bartending?
Comradery

 

Do you know any bar tricks?
Flair and I can blow fire

 

Has anyone ever asked you for a martini ‘shaken not stirred?’
Yes

 

Have you seen Coyote Ugly?
No

 

What’s the craziest experience you’ve had while working?
Having a bird bath shot at the bar

 

What do you like to do when you’re not bartending?
I like to watch football and drink

 

What do you want to do in the future?
Go back to St Louis and open a bar

 

If you could tell customers anything you wanted, what would it be?
Please and thank you go a long way

 

Side-bar: 

What was your first concert? Pearl Jam

Any movies you’ve been dying to see? Traitor

Favorite Sport? Soccer

 

Are you a St Louis Rams fan? Die hard fan of any team from St Louis

 

Do you have a specific name for the bar you'd like to open? I haven’t honestly thought about that

 

Do you think it’s better to go to a bartending school or learn behind the bar? Hands on experience is always better then having a crash course in a week. 

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