Are there any useful connections between bartending and design?
Absolutely. We’ll have meetings about what we can do with the bar. We just put in some high-top tables, an idea of mine. They let me pitch some ideas about different lighting and stuff like that, because you want to keep changing the bar a little bit. You don’t want to stay the same. Restaurant design is another thing that I am really into. April 12th, 2007 The Bar Hopper Review By: Angie Fenton Friedman Call it what you will — casually refined, tastefully casual, upscale and inexpensive — but the Springhurst area lacks in such establishments. You know the type: the dimly lighted, dark-paneled locale that serves up a side of cozy ambiance with a bevy of adult beverages; everyone is welcome, but you’ll feel a tad out of place in your Saturday sweat suit. Martini’s — as regulars call it — fills that niche. You can opt to be seated in the restaurant, but we chose to the bar, which is located in its own area with tall tables and booths, and ordered off the extensive martini list. The menu
