When you leave the city for the country, you leave behind a few key creature comforts. A standard leave-behind is the great martini bar around the corner. We moved an hr north and discovered a better mouse trap.
The Glen Ellen Inn and Restaurant.
We rarely start a night on Glen Ellen’s famed Restaurant Row without starting here with a dozen fresh oysters and a martini or two. Aside from the vast array of choices of Vodka’s and specialty drinks, they have two very endearing traits:
- They listen. A lost art if you ask me.. “chopin up, just a few shakes” doesn’t turn into the hipster bartender shaking my martini 27 times (is he even old enough to remember Cocktail?) and turning a simple two ingredient drink into pond water.
- Onesies. They serve mini martini’s. Seriously. Half Martini’s. I think they have a patent.
So then.. even though the food here is fantastic, you can now head to one of the eateries next door and dine. What an adventure.
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