Posts Tagged ‘alcohol’

Why we will miss this grimy little bar

Mars Bar was a vestige of the East Village in the 1980s: the area cleaned up but the bar never did

Stella beer bottle: Cairo, Egypt, 1994

A bad beer but a beloved bottle

Zottos rhum bottle: Cairo, Egypt, 1994

A potent and potentially lethal drink with an archaic label


The Green Man Ferro China bottle: Cairo, Egypt, 1994

A bitter aperitif from 1990s Cairo with an odd name and undrinkable contents

La Baalbanaise arak bottle: Cairo, Egypt, 1994

Conjuring up neither the decadence of Baalbek nor the panache of the Lebanese