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Sunday, January 04, 2009

My Open Bar in the NY Times!

Not only do I love free drinks, but this happens to be my friend's company, so its double awesome to read about My Open Bar in the New York Times!

Web Site Points the Way to Where Drinks Are on the House

















Jason Fried, left, and Seva Granik at an event held by Drambuie at the Slipper Room on Orchard Street. Mr. Fried’s and Mr. Granik’s Web site, myopenbar.com, has 30,000 subscribers in New York.


Frank Leone does not just dislike Drambuie, the Scottish liqueur, he hates it. Its sweetness and thickness remind him, he says, of “corn syrup straight from the jar.”

Yet there he was the other night at the Slipper Room, a club with red velvet-lined walls on the Lower East Side, downing one Drambuie and soda and ordering another. Because while Mr. Leone, a 37-year-old personal trainer and musician, insisted that “there’s no amount of free liquor that would help me acquire a taste for Drambuie,” he does have an acquired taste for free drinks...

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