70 year olds can drink!

This past weekend I spent both Friday and Saturday at Riley Street Station. The outdoor patio has been picking up, so we hired a new waitress to help handle the additional crowd. Pretty exciting move when you need to bring on additional staff to accommodate the growing crowds.

Due to the recent buzz about the place, a group of my mother's friends came in to pay a visit. My mother is a retired telephone company employee, so her and a few friends she used to work with meet up at least once a week for drinks and dinner. This weekend however, they made an additional outing to our bar spurred by the article in the paper.

Predictably, we all wound up venturing into the martini bar and proceeded to consume many martinis. I was drinking girly drinks like it was my job! So much so that some of the patrons started to tease me about it, but to be honest with you I didn't really care. They tasted too good to worry about the temporary damage I was inevitably subjecting on my image.

Side Note: Our Espresso Martini is absolutely incredible.

The most shocking situation of the night however was the amount that my mother's friends could drink. For a couple in their late 60's, they could put them down with the best of them. They were well kept individuals too, so you would never have imagined they could hold their own like that.

I was impressed to say the least, and it should be noted that their drink of choice was the Lemon Drop Martini. That is a mixture of citrus Vodka, triple sec and Lemoncello.... it's all alcohol! Each martini has about 7 shots of liquor in it, and they were sipping them down with ease! My mother on the other hand did not impress with her ability to handle her alcohol. Clearly she needs a more regimented conditioning program, and I recommended that she hire her friends to be her personal coach.