One of the bars of the hotel, Bar Hemingway, is devoted to Hemingway and the L'Espadon is a world-renowned restaurant, attracting aspiring chefs from all over the world who come to learn at the adjacent Ritz-Escoffier School. Ritz-Escoffier School
Rollich, who could easily be called a bar chef, is devoted to using the freshest farmers market ingredients in his drinks, often heading to the kitchen to weave in ever more culinary aspects to their execution.
And in the Sportsman bar, a corner is devoted to him, complete with an Eisteddfod chair from his native Trawsfynydd.
Mr. Horowitz, who noted that they used to insist that one of the bar's many televisions be devoted to the Giants, said that just as the couple did for the 2008 Super Bowl, they were planning to be back Sunday night at the Hairy Monk to watch their team play the Patriots.
The menu is huge (in the style of many tapas bars, a percentage of the menu is devoted to pricey canned goods; more on this in a minute), and getting through it in one visit is hopeless.
One side is devoted to the bar, where the drinks, by Benjamin Wood, are lady-killers, elegant with a knife twist.
Most of the space is devoted to the bar area up front, where nibblers roost at high tables and at a counter along the open kitchen.
