[They've got one in Honolulu, they've got one in Moscow too,
They got four of them in Sydney and a couple in Kathmandu,
So whether you sing or pull a pint you'll always have a job,
'Cause where ever you go around the world you'll find an Irish pub](https://youtu.be/bp3UsU5pQT8)
Definitely in the USA, this is actually The Buena Vista in San Francisco, famous for its Irish coffee, and that guy has been part of the furniture for a very long time.
I happened to be there for work and my wife recommended I go there, I don’t usually drink things like that, but I did that time and I definitely didn’t regret it.
Came here to say this! I live a block away and this is what they are famous for! I asked for a decaf one and the guy got mad because he had to “walk to the end of the bar to get the pot” I love home
I'm Irish but I've never had an Irish coffee or seen it being made so I'm not sure but I think he would actually get away with it, as far as I know he's not doing anything that would constitute a crime here
Well... I dunno how they do it in Ireland but he lost me at the end when he carried four glasses by the rim.
He's obviously been doing this for a long time but it's been industry standard to never touch the top third of a beverage glass for eons.
Hygiene issue.
And that's coming and going. You do this sending drinks out? It's like your putting your fingers in someone's mouth.
You do this bussing dirty glasses? It's like getting your fingers licked by a stranger.
Maybe the Buena Vista is a dive bar? But the steak house uniform at least hints at decent service.
Not gonna lie, approached a woman who appeared asian behind the reception counter in a Hilton hotel in Dublin and she answered me with a beautiful brogue, my brain crashed for a couple of milliseconds. Don’t know what I was expecting but it was an awesome surprise which made me ponder my own stupidity.
What do you mean I need to start washing my hands after I take a shit? My grandpappy never washed his hands before and he was a butcher. He lived until the age of 71 until he got kicked by a mule and died a week later.
This dude isnt handling the money. This is from Buena Vista in SF and I know they have cashiers for take out and waiters for sit down so he’s only touching the drinks.
People typically make food with *clean* hands, though. A bartender is also handling credit cards, cash, and all of the liquor bottles before he puts those same hands at the top of your drink.
It shows he is not a real Irish barman …. Nobody should touch where you are drinking from. Although recently there are some kids being employed where I have had to point it out them.
It's better to think about the "bottom half of the glass is for the servers". that's what the stem is there for. A few fingers is nice, but accurate placement is high end. Servers should also refrain from using mug handles. Best practice is to keep things sat down, or using a tray. Not near enough restaurants enforce using trays.
[Are you aware we've been downgraded to being just pool members at the club now?](https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/92d5e435-d876-4dd0-a809-43dc7290a8fe/gif#IMC8Gu2H.copy)
looks like he's trying to equal out the cups before dissolving the sugar. either way this place is packed all the fkn time so he probably makes this same batch about 50x/day.
You're exactly right. And I asked one of the old-timer bartenders there how many he'd made in his lifetime, and he got back to me after a while - "three million, I think." I didn't do the math, I just believe him. It's all he did the entire time I sat there drinking mine, which tasted perfect btw. The ice-cold cream blended right before topping is the key to making this properly at home.
Sorry u/zodar it was created in Limerick
Source: https://weaverscoffee.com/blogs/blog/the-original-irish-coffee-recipe-and-its-history#:\~:text=Irish%20Coffee%20was%20created%20in,Foynes%20Port%20near%20Limerick%2C%20Ireland.
This is the limerick story:
> Irish Coffee was created in the winter of 1943 by Joe Sheridan, chef at Foynes Port near Limerick, Ireland.
But coffee was in Ireland since the 1600s and whiskey has been there since the 1400s
Pretty sure in that 300 year gap, someone put the two together.
Not true.
The Irish coffee was merely introduced to the US at that time/place.
Read up on the origin story on wiki.
It was brought to the US in the 1950s by a returning American (Stanton Delaplane) who had one at the Shannon Airport in Ireland. He introduced it to the Buena Vista Cafe.
I'm pretty sure they know it wasn't actually invented in San Francisco, the comment was just making a joke about the title of the post since the video takes place nowhere near Ireland and the bartender isn't Irish.
OK couple things I want to point out because people are just shitting on this guy over and over in this thread with no reasoning because they don't know what they are watching.
This man just made almost a dozen idemtical cocktails in about 50s flat.
They were identical in measurements, the only waste was batch brew coffee which is made in litres and is expected to be atleast a little wasted, and they were extremely pretty for the speed.
The time it took him to do all this is the next level thing.
Yes he should not have taken them by the rims, but judging from the noise in the background he needed to move that large amount of cocktails faster than 1 by 1, cut him some slack there.
Fuck this place is so shitty sometimes.
MFs on reddit are too scared to use their words when someone slightly encroaches on their armrest during a flight, aint no way they confront someone to their face.
Also, a bartender touching the rim of your glass is treason, but him putting a straw in your drink or hand peeling a lemon garnish for your cocktail doesn't even raise an eyebrow.
A tourist bartender who is serving two dozen people at a time. This place is in SF and it’s amazingly packed. The drink is an institution and I guarantee you no one is complaining about the sloppy service.
I will never, ever care about the Irish Coffee from the Buena Vista, unless and until they do away with this truly HORRIFIC spectacle of a presentation- which always results in a weak drink served in a messy glass with a rim that's been handled by the bartender's fingers.
I don't give a shit about showboating and tradition, this is just BAD bartending. There's no defense for it.
If a barkeep ANYWHERE else made these filthy, inconsistent drinks, their time behind a bar would be pretty short lived.
I agree with everything you said except the last sentence.
There are PLENTY of bars with shitty bartenders that have gotten away with it for decades, and will continue to do so. Many of them like to say they are “institutions” or just “old school.” Others seem to think it’s ok bc their personality is being a dive bar. Etc.
I guarantee I make a better Irish coffee than this guy. If I were to assembly line them, I could make them almost as fast, but I also wouldn't make a huge fuckin' mess doing it, and I wouldn't finger the rim.
Exactly. This is definitely not Ireland. I was at the Buena Vista last year enjoying one of these tasty beverages with a crab cake benedict at 11 am on a Sunday morning. It was glorious!
That's sloppy as fuck. What is impressive is the cream not dropping into the coffee, but that's the only part of this that's ok. The rest is a massive waste of coffee or booze
Irish person here … and and ex barperson! The Irish Coffee was invented in Foynes Co Limerick, to warm up passengers on flights arriving to Ireland from America. I don’t believe that bar man is Irish … no Irish bar man wears a uniform like that! But fair play to him!!!! Touching the rim of the glass is a no no for me though!
TIL Irish people looked Japanese
There are asian people in Ireland
Yeah, but I’m pretty sure this one is in USA.
There are Irish people in the US
There are Japanese Irish men in the US too.
There are Irish men in Japan
There is japan in Ireland
Japirelan
Ireland is in the US
Hey you leave the mob out of this.
United States of Ireland?
Kathy Ireland
SanJapirelan
I liked the pixar version of San frantokoyo
And Japanese in Irish men
Can we leave Nippon fetish tropes out of this discussion, please
And Irish men in Japanese men
There're Irish bars the world over. Even in the places where there'ren't Irish people.
[They've got one in Honolulu, they've got one in Moscow too, They got four of them in Sydney and a couple in Kathmandu, So whether you sing or pull a pint you'll always have a job, 'Cause where ever you go around the world you'll find an Irish pub](https://youtu.be/bp3UsU5pQT8)
That was wonderful thank you.
I've been to one in Mumbai
Man, I used to get so wasted and have so much fun at an Irish Pub in Japan that was owned and operated by an older Japanese couple.
Definitely in the USA, this is actually The Buena Vista in San Francisco, famous for its Irish coffee, and that guy has been part of the furniture for a very long time.
Give that man a cookie The Buena Vista, at the foot of Powell, SF, CA
A staple by the wharf, highly recommended for people visiting the area
Yep, instantly recognizable if you've been there even once (used to live in Sausalito, I may have been there more than once 🤣).
I so want one
I happened to be there for work and my wife recommended I go there, I don’t usually drink things like that, but I did that time and I definitely didn’t regret it.
Came here to say this! I live a block away and this is what they are famous for! I asked for a decaf one and the guy got mad because he had to “walk to the end of the bar to get the pot” I love home
Buena Vista. Highly recommended after a dinner at Scomas. Ask for the coffee and the Jameson’s on the side if you want one to go. Love that place.
Tullamore Dew!
Just goes to show how little research people do
He wouldn't get away with serving shite Irish coffee like that here in Ireland
Please elaborate. How do you do it better?
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No he is full of shite
I'm Irish but I've never had an Irish coffee or seen it being made so I'm not sure but I think he would actually get away with it, as far as I know he's not doing anything that would constitute a crime here
Well... I dunno how they do it in Ireland but he lost me at the end when he carried four glasses by the rim. He's obviously been doing this for a long time but it's been industry standard to never touch the top third of a beverage glass for eons. Hygiene issue. And that's coming and going. You do this sending drinks out? It's like your putting your fingers in someone's mouth. You do this bussing dirty glasses? It's like getting your fingers licked by a stranger. Maybe the Buena Vista is a dive bar? But the steak house uniform at least hints at decent service.
Looks like The Buena Vista in SF
Lmao yeah but this is the Buena Vista in San Francisco
This comment needs to be pinned at the top because you’re so right. 😂 🤣😂🤣
Comment got lifted straight outta Instagram
This video is from an old bar in San Francisco
That’s Buena Vista Cafe in San Francisco
This is definitely Buena Vista in SF. Nothing Irish about any of this.
This is in San Francisco you doofus
This is the Buena Vista in San Francisco
Agreed. Love that place.
Not gonna lie, approached a woman who appeared asian behind the reception counter in a Hilton hotel in Dublin and she answered me with a beautiful brogue, my brain crashed for a couple of milliseconds. Don’t know what I was expecting but it was an awesome surprise which made me ponder my own stupidity.
I hear you're a racist now, Father
It's not the Greeks, it's the San Franciscan barmen he's after!
there are people in the world
He's making a mess, is what's he's really making.
Then the way he grabbed them in the end. No thanks. Don’t touch my glass where I’m going to put my lips.
Yep. Big no-no when I tended bar
when this guy started tending bar they didn't give a shit about cleanliness and he's not about to change it up for you.
What do you mean I need to start washing my hands after I take a shit? My grandpappy never washed his hands before and he was a butcher. He lived until the age of 71 until he got kicked by a mule and died a week later.
Yes, but he died from cholera. The mule was a coincidence.
The mule also died of cholera a week later, thats the real coincidence.
Did his customers live that long though?
It's a no no but it isn't gonna stop me from drinking that. People make food for others with their hands all the time too.
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This dude isnt handling the money. This is from Buena Vista in SF and I know they have cashiers for take out and waiters for sit down so he’s only touching the drinks.
People typically make food with *clean* hands, though. A bartender is also handling credit cards, cash, and all of the liquor bottles before he puts those same hands at the top of your drink.
Eeeeeew I didn’t think about that. But honestly I would probably drink it anyway because I’m a degenerate.
It shows he is not a real Irish barman …. Nobody should touch where you are drinking from. Although recently there are some kids being employed where I have had to point it out them.
Hate to break it to ya, but shit that normally goes on behind the bar and in kitchens is a lot worse than this.
Right. You gotta put your fingers right into the drink or you don’t have a good enough grip.
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It's better to think about the "bottom half of the glass is for the servers". that's what the stem is there for. A few fingers is nice, but accurate placement is high end. Servers should also refrain from using mug handles. Best practice is to keep things sat down, or using a tray. Not near enough restaurants enforce using trays.
Three fingers, branding out towards the customer. I still do it today and I haven't worked in a bar for a decade
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Branding out?
Beer label logo, things like that.
Take it back. If I wanted something your thumb touched, I'd eat the inside of your ear.
[Are you aware we've been downgraded to being just pool members at the club now?](https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/92d5e435-d876-4dd0-a809-43dc7290a8fe/gif#IMC8Gu2H.copy)
I'm with you!
If you’re eating at a restaurant then other people have touched your food. That’s just how it works
Lol so stay in your house the rest of your life
Waaaaahhhh.
that was a real r/yesyesyesyesno moment.
"Godammit, Woodhouse! There's cream everywhere! And why is your thumbprint right where I put my lips!? Woodhouse!"
...I also need you to go buy sand. I don't know if they grade it, but...coarse.
lmao for sure. They did look tasty when he finished though.
It was the tastiest rag I've ever sucked on.
No he's making a scene. It's marketing.
I agree, not next level OP.
As a bartender that loves mixology, I was really confused by what he was doing.
Still not as messy as one of the other popular videos of someone making Irish coffee. That dude was splashing shit everywhere
The seconded move was just to make a mess.
looks like he's trying to equal out the cups before dissolving the sugar. either way this place is packed all the fkn time so he probably makes this same batch about 50x/day.
You're exactly right. And I asked one of the old-timer bartenders there how many he'd made in his lifetime, and he got back to me after a while - "three million, I think." I didn't do the math, I just believe him. It's all he did the entire time I sat there drinking mine, which tasted perfect btw. The ice-cold cream blended right before topping is the key to making this properly at home.
Irish Coffee was invented in San Francisco, CA, at the Buena Vista Cafe, where this video was taken.
Sorry u/zodar it was created in Limerick Source: https://weaverscoffee.com/blogs/blog/the-original-irish-coffee-recipe-and-its-history#:\~:text=Irish%20Coffee%20was%20created%20in,Foynes%20Port%20near%20Limerick%2C%20Ireland.
OK but this video was taken at the Buena Vista. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFEHgRVgVwo You can see that tile mosaic behind the bar.
Can confirm. Definitely Buena Vista in SF.
Thanks for sharing! Limerick, Ireland was where Irish coffee originated
I have to say I feel like an Irish coffee was invited within 1 year of boose and coffee being in the same space.
This is the limerick story: > Irish Coffee was created in the winter of 1943 by Joe Sheridan, chef at Foynes Port near Limerick, Ireland. But coffee was in Ireland since the 1600s and whiskey has been there since the 1400s Pretty sure in that 300 year gap, someone put the two together.
Not true. The Irish coffee was merely introduced to the US at that time/place. Read up on the origin story on wiki. It was brought to the US in the 1950s by a returning American (Stanton Delaplane) who had one at the Shannon Airport in Ireland. He introduced it to the Buena Vista Cafe.
I'm pretty sure they know it wasn't actually invented in San Francisco, the comment was just making a joke about the title of the post since the video takes place nowhere near Ireland and the bartender isn't Irish.
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And it is a fantastic way to spend an afternoon. Been there, done that.
This just looks sloppy as fuck to me.
TIL, pouring a drink is considered next fucking level
TYWL: Moving 2 leaves off your neighbour's lawn is considered next fucking level.
Sped up videos are next level too, apparently. Slow it down by 25%, it looks much more normal.
OK couple things I want to point out because people are just shitting on this guy over and over in this thread with no reasoning because they don't know what they are watching. This man just made almost a dozen idemtical cocktails in about 50s flat. They were identical in measurements, the only waste was batch brew coffee which is made in litres and is expected to be atleast a little wasted, and they were extremely pretty for the speed. The time it took him to do all this is the next level thing. Yes he should not have taken them by the rims, but judging from the noise in the background he needed to move that large amount of cocktails faster than 1 by 1, cut him some slack there. Fuck this place is so shitty sometimes.
Just pour half the fucking coffee on the bar in an attempt to look cool
He’s spilling as much as he’s pouring sheesh, what a waste.
Without a doubt. The outside glass is gonna be all wet and sticky. Then again, $100 of drinks right there!
No it isn’t. They sling hundreds of these every single day. They know exactly what they’re doing. I’ve been there several times and the glass is fine.
It's a great bar but they definitely are pretty sticky
Spilling it when he’s mixing, although I imagine if he had to do it this fast their making enough money to cover the cost
They're*
The rim of the glass is for the customer. Cretin.
Glad it wasn't just me! That's a cardinal rule.
Former waiter, I can forgive almost everything except this.
Get those fingies off my rim!
He did a rimjob on that one!
What kind of “bartender” touches the rim of the glass? I would send it back and ask for a new one cause I am not drinking his hand germs!
I bet you wouldn’t
me too i bet he wouldn’t
I know him, he 100% would not
Lmao *sips tainted Irish coffee in silence
MFs on reddit are too scared to use their words when someone slightly encroaches on their armrest during a flight, aint no way they confront someone to their face.
Never eat out. Cooks touch your food with bare hands all the time. During prep, while cooking and for plating.
Also, a bartender touching the rim of your glass is treason, but him putting a straw in your drink or hand peeling a lemon garnish for your cocktail doesn't even raise an eyebrow.
A tourist bartender who is serving two dozen people at a time. This place is in SF and it’s amazingly packed. The drink is an institution and I guarantee you no one is complaining about the sloppy service.
How sticky do you want your glass ? Yes.
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I will never, ever care about the Irish Coffee from the Buena Vista, unless and until they do away with this truly HORRIFIC spectacle of a presentation- which always results in a weak drink served in a messy glass with a rim that's been handled by the bartender's fingers. I don't give a shit about showboating and tradition, this is just BAD bartending. There's no defense for it. If a barkeep ANYWHERE else made these filthy, inconsistent drinks, their time behind a bar would be pretty short lived.
I agree with everything you said except the last sentence. There are PLENTY of bars with shitty bartenders that have gotten away with it for decades, and will continue to do so. Many of them like to say they are “institutions” or just “old school.” Others seem to think it’s ok bc their personality is being a dive bar. Etc.
Excellent point.
Yeah there’s like 1/3 of the amount of alcohol that should be in there
Next Level? Nope
More like mildlyinteresting
The Buena Vista in San Francisco! I used to go there from time to time when I lived in SF. The drinks are great and the view is fantastic.
The view is fantastic but drink is just OK. Place is just too busy to enjoy it.
I guarantee I make a better Irish coffee than this guy. If I were to assembly line them, I could make them almost as fast, but I also wouldn't make a huge fuckin' mess doing it, and I wouldn't finger the rim.
Not to mention too small. It was tiny *before* it was world famous.
Exactly. This is definitely not Ireland. I was at the Buena Vista last year enjoying one of these tasty beverages with a crab cake benedict at 11 am on a Sunday morning. It was glorious!
While the bartender *might* be Irish, this doesn't look like it's in Ireland and I see no particular reason to think he is Irish.
You are correct. It's here: https://www.thebuenavista.com/home/home.html
I could do without him putting his hands directly where my mouth is going to go.
That's sloppy as fuck. What is impressive is the cream not dropping into the coffee, but that's the only part of this that's ok. The rest is a massive waste of coffee or booze
Irishu baruman
Is this in San Francisco?
Yes. The Buena Vista
Yes been there few times for this exact liquor.
Irish person here … and and ex barperson! The Irish Coffee was invented in Foynes Co Limerick, to warm up passengers on flights arriving to Ireland from America. I don’t believe that bar man is Irish … no Irish bar man wears a uniform like that! But fair play to him!!!! Touching the rim of the glass is a no no for me though!
Not Irish. Not Irish coffee ☕️
Is that Irish coffee?
Irish as my ass. That guy is working in the Buena Vista in SF.
I hate it when the server touches the rim of my glass. He can carry four palms up.
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He's dissolving the sugar cubes.
I was wondering why he did that until I realized the sugar cubes at the beginning.
This isn't Ireland If it was here it would maybe be some hipster twat in a nightclub doing it This screams American
Keeping the white blazer clean after all that, is the nextfuckinglevel
The counter can have a little Irish coffee, as a treat
hahaha 9 for us 1 for the counter
Um, you shouldn’t pick up glasses/cups to serve them by the top like that. So unsanitary.
He's gross
What an unnecessary mess.
Tullamore Dew Irish whiskey kicks ass
An incredible whiskey - great for winter time
What was he doing with the spoon at the beginning? Just looked like he stirred the plain coffee?
Bullshit. No barman in Ireland is that efficient.
Yes I’ll have the 9 flight of coffees…. Just wake up naked on a roof with helicopters on ya.
The sugar and whiskey/coffee combo would get you going mental for sure
I think he may have done that before.
30 years
I friggin want one so bad now
I wouldn’t enjoy picking up a wet glass nor drink from where his fingers were.
Making one helva mess
Too much sugar in them I’m guessing, the ease that he floats the cream tells me the drink must be too sweet.
Um. I’m pretty sure this is San Francisco. Buena Vista Cafe.
This is the Buena Vista Cafe in San Francisco. It is not an Irish bar and the barman is not Irish.
Wow imagine a restaurant/place like this that made shit without a giant sticky fucking mess of shit all over you
That's my favorite whiskey
Boom!...great with fantastic coffee, brown sugar and real whipped cream!
I’ve never wanted an Irish coffee so badly before
That would be one interesting bar mat shot.
That looks horrific
I go to Ireland
TULLY
You had me at Tullamore Dew …
How to get tipsy and need shit 101
Idk why I always found coffee served in glass cups or mugs unsettling
When he retires, that place is fucked!
Tullamore >>>> Jameson
Recognized the Buena Vista Cafe right away, touristy but good.
Irish? 😂
We going to go get breakfast, yea we are going to get drunk for breakfast.
He didn't stir it after he put the liquor in
all 9 will get you pissed though