The Biker Somm

Category: Serve

  • A Sommelier’s Guide To Dining Out (And Killing It)

    A Sommelier’s Guide To Dining Out (And Killing It)

    Tips from a sommelier on how to maximize your enjoyment of an evening out to dinner.

  • Kitchen Confidential By Anthony Bourdain (If He Had Been A Server Instead Of A Filthy Line Cook)

    In every full-service restaurant there are two worlds: the Front of House…made up of servers and bartenders, and the Back of House…made up of cooks and dishwashers (with bussers and hostesses existing in the mist between). The difference between these clans?  Mainly, if you bathe yourself before coming to work, you are FOH.  If you…

  • Restaurant Secrets: REVEALED!!! “Serve From The Left, Clear From The Right”

    SERVE FROM THE LEFT, CLEAR FROM THE RIGHT If you’ve ever worked in a restaurant of any kind you have undoubtedly heard of the policy, “serve from the left, clear from the right”.  The idea is that you place things in front of a guest from their left side and remove things from their right,…

  • That Dull, Familiar Ache

    “Oh, you’re a sommelier?  That is SO COOL!!!!  The servant’s entrance is around back.” Even if my job didn’t have a fancy-sounding French name, it would still be a cool job.  Getting paid to be a specialist in wine and spirits?  Yeah, there are way worse gigs…I know, I’ve had some epic ones.  I once…

  • A SOMMELIER TASTES EVERY* HARD SELTZER EVER MADE

    A Sommelier tastes every* hard seltzer ever made   (*I got close…I swear.) “I’m almost ready for work…I just need a quick drink and we’ll head out.” When I first moved to town I was staying with a sommelier friend of mine, who I discovered kept a twelver of White Claw Hard Seltzer in her…

  • A Dish and a Bottle #2: Trailer Park “Chopped”

    A DISH AND A BOTTLE #2: TRAILER PARK CHOPPED Let’s talk about being poor.   Anyone who’s been on the grind has had those nights where that evening’s menu was determined by whatever random ingredients you happened to already have on hand…not because you wanted that stuff (and not because you came home shitfaced and…

  • A Dish and a Bottle: #1

    Although I am a professional drinker by trade, I more broadly consider myself to just be a glutton.  A glutton for “the things”…ALL the things…the things that we love…the things that make life amazing…the things that are the reason working people grind at jobs they hate for less money than they deserve…THOSE things. And for…

  • Where Eddie Wasn’t Dead

    “You’re a musician, Marcus…tell them I’m right about Roth being a badass and Hagar being a dog shit taco.”   Every generation of rock and roll fans has its music beefs.  Little Richard or Elvis Presley?  The Stones or The Beatles?  Machine Gun Kelly or death by seppuku?  But perhaps the most contentious of these…