If run-of-the-mill bartending doesn’t really tickle your taste-buds, then you may enjoy flair bartending. It is a feast for the eyes. This is when that dashing guy behind the bar counter, perhaps someone like Tom Cruise in Cocktail, doesn’t just mix you a drink, but does it in a style that will truly amaze you. This is precisely what skilled and experienced flair bartenders are hired to do.

Bartending with flair is an exclusive and specialized art form or service, whereby skilled bartenders entertain guests in the most imaginative and fascinating manner. This includes the handling of easily recognizable bar tools, such as cocktail shakers or liquor bottles, in a series of moves akin, in many ways, to those of a juggler. What’s equally amazing is the quality of the drink and the speed with which it is created.

The term “flair bartending” became popular among bartenders during the mid 1990’s, with the advent of such movies as Cocktail and Coyote Ugly, and can be described as any trick employed by a bartender to entertain guests, while mixing their drinks. The flipping or juggling of shakers, bottles etc. are but a few of the varied techniques used by professional flair bartenders.

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