Try a Scotch quail's egg with caper mayonnaise, or Welsh rabbit fondue, washed down with a Hix Fix cocktail.
Rudy's father, Harold, was a small-time thug who worked behind the bar puffing on a cigar as he fixed cocktails.
It was pleasant and down-to-earth, an un-Hampton, and I could imagine a leisurely summer rhythm of biking, swimming, reading books, taking naps and fixing cocktails at sunset.
Pharrell's just stopping by, but 10 or so of the duo's other friends are crashing here – sharing bedrooms, playing ping-pong in the living room, fixing cocktails from the stocked bar, climbing up to the roof and cannonballing into the pool out back.
At its best, Orient is like Donna Tartt novelising Twin Peaks while F Scott Fitzgerald fixes cocktails.
Now fix yourself a cocktail and get Pac-ing.
Here, glass fish-bowls are casually filled with crushed ice and bottles of Moët adorn the bar at which an accomplished "mixologist" fixes fine cocktails.
Cocktail, cocktail, cocktail, cocktail......
"You will love it," he promised a skeptical diner, and ran off grinning to fix her a gin cocktail flavored with fresh cilantro, cucumbers, and hot peppers.
Connecticut's a fine state, to be sure, but not really the kind of place where the locals know how to fix a proper antifreeze cocktail or engineer the kind of romantic interludes likely to merit a "SEX TRAP" headline in The New York Post.
