How To Pick Up Your Bartender

March, 2016

The owner of Brooklyn's Leyenda tells you how to ask her for a date I've been bartending for more than 10 years in all sorts of bars in all sorts of countries. I've seen pickups that have gone incredibly well and have wanted to ask the guy (or lady, for that matter) about his technique and just how he did it. Much more of- ten, though, I've seen epic train wrecks, just crash-and-burn types of scenarios—the kind of thing that makes me want to hide behind my bar to avoid the shrapnel. But sometime...