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:

Mei-ling, from Tijuana Iguana

Hometown: Tampa

How long have you worked at Tijuana Iguana? 
Since it opened a few months back

 

Have you bartended anywhere else?
Yes, Dallas Bull and Hooters

 

What is the most requested drink?
Silver Patron Shots

 

What is your favorite drink to drink?
Grape Jolly Rancher

 

Where did you learn to bartend?
Hooters, when they started serving liquor

 

What’s your biggest pet peeve with bar-goers?
Bad Tippers!!!!

 

What do you like most about bartending?
The Atmosphere

 

Do you know any bar tricks?
No, but I am learning how to blow fire

 

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

 

Have you seen Coyote Ugly?
Yes

 

What’s the craziest experience you’ve had while working?
When I was at Hooters a guy order oysters and snorted them up his nose

 

What do you like to do when you’re not bartending?
I sleep, I watch movies and I cut hair.

 

What do you want to do in the future?
I want to open up my own salon

 
What would you name your future salon?
Serenity Salon

If you could tell customers anything you wanted, what would it be?
What I really think about them

 

Side-bar:

What was your first concert? N’sync

Any movies you’ve been dying to see? The New Saw

What is your favorite sport?  Mixed Martial Arts

Who’s your favorite MMA superstar? Seth Petruzelli

Would you ever do MMA? Yes

 
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