A brilliant article "Against Mixology"

http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/deming_w11.html

Here Here!
The only thing I admire about these people and places is that they are brilliant at relieving rich people of their money.  I want a god damned drink, not some fru-fru slurpee mixed by some over-priced snot.  That stuff is for people who are afraid of drink - and will do anything to hide, camouflage and drown it in something else.  Go back to Starbucks, ya wimps.  And, as further proof of the conning of rich dopes, look at what they're promoting - Rye!  If there's anything worse than that swill, I don't want to hear about it, much less put it in my mouth.  Only Canadians drink that crap, and that's because it's the only whiskey grain their climate allows them to grow/distill.  But now it's being pawned off on the swells as some Ooh-La-La concoction!  What a joke.  The stuff is vile.
Still, these places serve a function.  Like I said, they perform a Darwinian service by taking money from people too stupid to deserve it, and they keep the assholes penned up and away from the rest of us. 



(Thanks for the link, Erik!)