Mumbai drinks to get pis*** drunk

Updated On: 22 July, 2009 06:42 AM IST | | Bhairavi Jhaveri

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No one enters a bar sober. Women down 6 drinks, men, 8. bartenders dish out 100 cocktails in 3 hours on a Saturday night. Rs 6,000 per person is the average alcohol bill FYI gets Mumbai's bartenders, F&B managers and rent-a-driver service providers to spill the beans on how the city drinks

If the workplace is a hell hole, then God lurks around at the bar, where heaven is found in every drop of a potent, flavourful Cosmo, or that smooth single malt. So, then that obviously makes Mumbai's bar the latest place of worship after a long day, short day, tiring day, lazy day. A single drink or two are the norm on weekdays, a sort of precursor to what will unfold on Friday and Saturday, and wrap up on over Sunday brunch.

The lines between weekdays and weekends have blurred long enough for anyone to walk right into a bar, down a few shots and not even realise it is a bloody Tuesday night. What unfolds on weekends can knock the socks off of a teetotaler.

Mera number kab ayega? The crowd at Hard Rock Cafu00e9, Worli tries to grab the bartender's attention on a packed Saturday night. Pic/Bipin Kokate

A happening bar on a Saturday night, sees bartenders churn out as many as 100 cocktails, and do away with 8 to 10 bottles of whisky, another 10 bottles of vodka, all in a span of 3 hours. We guess the recession, or its fear, has done little to change the way Mumbai drinks. If anything, it has spurred by the launch of new pubs, and arrival of a variety of imported liquor brands. "People always want to drink, all the time," confirms Mayur Babubhai Trivedi, Bar Supervisor at Bandra-based nightclub, Poison.

Bartenders spill the beans, drinks and everything in between