When Imbiber Met Sally
08/26/2008 Filed in: Sally
Name: Sally Alfis
Age: 23
Where you’re from: New Milford, NJ
Where you live: Hoboken, NJ, the birthplace of Frank Sinatra, baseball, Blimpie, and the zipper.
Company you work for: M Booth & Associates
Brands repped: Champagne Piper-Heidsieck, The Macallan, Maestro Dobel (new AMAZING tequila), The Famous Grouse, Masi Wines, Highland Park…With some Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce and Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City thrown in as well.
Favorite bar: I don’t have a favorite haunt per se, it all depends on the mood.
• For remembering the good ole college days and loving $3 pitchers of Miller Lite alongside the greatest happy hour soundtrack of all time… Chuck’s (Syracuse, NY)
• For feeling sophisticated and cultured… the roof bar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY)
• For dancing my Jersey Girl behind off… Maracana Casa de Samba (Florence, Italy)
• For pretending to be a cocktail connoisseur… Tailor (New York, NY)
• For enjoying la dolce vita with a view of the sunset on the Zattere with a glass of Soave and selection of cichetti with the locals…. Al Bottegon Gia Schiavi (Venice, Italy)
• For cheap cosmos and dancing… Red Sky (New York, NY)
• For shamlessly plugging my client… Whiskey Blue (W Westwood, LA) where you can Be Seen with Piper-Heidsieck Piscine this summer and feel like you’re sipping the extravagance of the French Riviera
Favorite drink: I’m going to get in trouble for not saying something with a base of whisky, tequila, or champagne, but lately I’ve been LOVING the caipirinha.
Chianti always tickles my fancy as well. I don’t care if I’m not supposed to pair it with fish-- bring it on no matter what the dish!
Number of those drinks before you start dialing exes: Hmm, not many exes to dial unfortunately (or is that fortunately?) Three or four for someone I’m currently talking to, six or seven for an ex -- and by that time I’m already asleep anyway
I say screw it! We can buy a shitload of beer and watch the ‘Cuse game on Eric/Dana’s humungo HD-TV for not even a quarter of the price it would cost for a NYC Pub Crawl. Official “Pub Crawls” are more for guys who want to see ex-sorority girls get sloppy….at least in NYC anyway…haha
Ever chug an entire beer and then belch loudly? If so, will you marry me? No, but I have participated in a “bombluck." E-mail me to find out about this up-and-coming trend in food and beverage pairing (and bombing) started by Syracuse University Class of 06 grads
Bar on a TV show that you wish you could hang out in? The Peach Pit: After Dark (Beverly Hills 90210) Lame? Yes. But I was just in LA for the first time in my life so it’s either that or Shooter’s from Melrose Place.
The best thing to eat in a bar is… NACHOS in the bar….pizza AFTER the bar.
People tell me I look like… Rachael Ray with curly hair. I guess we have the same big smile, and appetite? (ha!)
I used to get Keri Russell a lot when Felicity was still around, and before she chopped off her curly hair.
My biggest pet peeve is… Lateness, but only when I’m not the guilty party, because then lateness is just a fact of life.
I also can’t stand it when people go abroad and don’t buy a pocket dictionary to at least TRY to make things easier for the person who doesn’t speak English in their own homeland.
If I could be anywhere doing anything right now, I’d be… Boogie boarding on the Jersey Shore followed by a Pina Colada flavored Italian Ice and maybe a game of Frisbee. Oh, and I’d be flawlessly tan instead of my current shade of polar bear white.
Mimosas or Bloody Marys? Why? Mimosas. Love tomatoes, hate tomato-based juice --and the whole floating horseradish thing kind of isn’t very appetizing to me.
Parting shot: Soco and Lime always hits the spot.
