Finally...a little liquid snobbery revenge.
I am surrounded by wine snobs. My business partner Garner and former partner Rory Olson. Great friends Bruce Hills, Mark McQueen, Guy Beaudry and Bill Brownstein. Even the homeless guy outside the liquor store downstairs can recommend the proper red to go with braised beef.
Me, I don't know my Shiraz from my elbow. When the wine list comes, in the words of comedian Bobby Slayton, I read it like Jews read the Torah, from right to left; I see what the prices are (usually stopping at the median point), and then what wine goes with it.
So imagine my delight and Surprise when, at the end of a very filling and tastebud-popping meal at Emeril's in Orlando, I was presented with "The Coffee List."
Taken from France's leading coffee roaster Cafes Richard (who've been doing and brewing the bean since 1875), the list includes everything from a six-buck deep-roasted Italian Florio to a whopping $12 shot of Jamaican Blue Mountain, my favorite coffee in the world. This ain't the "load up with cream and sugar" stuff; this is sniff tenderly and sip slowly liquid platinummmmm...
By raising the profile of this taken-for-granted, after-dinner staple way past the Starbucks bar, Emeril's is not just adding big-time to its bottom line (do you know what the margin is on a 12-buck espresso shot?), but is giving people like me something to be geeky and over-educated about at a dinner table!
BAM! meets Pow!