If chefs can duke it out at Dennis Max’s Delray restaurants, why not bartenders?
Why not, indeed. So when Max’s Harvest is done with its Chef vs. Chef culinary combat, it will be time for area bartenders to get it on at Max’s Social House (116 NE 6th Ave., 561/501-4332)l in that restaurant’s Bar Brawls competition.
Like the chefs’ battle, the bartender fisticuffs will happen bracket-style, with weekly cocktail combat taking place every Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. beginning on Sept. 30 and ending in mid-December.
The rules are the same too: each bartender gets a basket of mystery ingredients to create three cocktails, with the winners facing each other until only one is left standing. That lucky (and strong-livered) person wins an all-expense-paid trip to Tales of the Cocktail 2016 in the very cradle of booze and serious tippling, New Orleans. Of course, each battle will be open to the public, and both the regular menu and street munchies will be served to sop up all that alcohol.
And speaking of alcohol, Max’s is also rolling out a few new cocktails. Like the Pimm’s Jar, a $22 play on the classic English libation, that can get two people snockered with a combo of Pimm’s No. 1 Cup, Sabrina’s Limoncello, Russian Standard vodka, strawberry syrup and ginger beer. One of the more interesting additions is the Tijuana Street Corner Daquiri, which blends Cane Brava rum with corn juice, Ancho Reyes chili liqueur, citrus and habanero shrub.
That sounds like it will not only whet your whistle but kick it around the block.
