u/Delicious_Shock_5485

Stopped by a bar yesterday. I glanced at their menu and walked around first to survey their bottles and saw the Averna so I ordered a Black Manhattan, which was off menu. The bartender didn’t know how to make it so I told him the standard recipe. To my dismay, as he was making it, he put all the ingredients in the shaker and shook it over ice. To be fair I didn’t tell him to stir but only because I thought it went without saying.

I drank the cocktail as it is because I figured I ordered something off menu which he wasn’t familiar with and arguably I wasn’t clear in my directions on how I wanted it to be prepared.

But now going back, I’m having second thoughts on what I should have done.