Tonight I got some very sad news. The Martini Grill in Albuquerque has shut it's doors for good. According to the news reports they lost their liquor license, because they were serving well liquor and passing it off to their costumers as premium liquor.
I don't agree with them cheating their costumers and breaking the law. But I have to say that when I heard the news my hear was broken. Even though I have not lived in Albuquerque for four years now. The Martini Grill was still one of my top spots to visit when I came home. It was one of the few spots that all my friends and I could agree on.
The thing that made Martini Grill so special wasn't just the cocktails. Although they did have over a dozen varities of martini's. The food was great, they took bar food to a whole new level. One of my favorite dishes to order there was, the green chile cheese waffle fries topped with chicken wings.
They made the best waffle fries I've ever had in my life! So good that they were even featured on the Food Network. When my mother told me the news she said you grew up there! She didn't mean I had been going there as child. But that I once I was drinking age I grew up drinking there. It was the place my friends and I would go when we wanted a "grown up" cocktail.
Not our standard rum and coke, or lemon drop shots we would do at our local college bar. It was a place for us to go for girls night out. I've so many great memories there, of happy hours and long talks with friends that lasted until last call. There are so many Friday nights here in California when I wish I could go to Martini Grill for a drink after work.
I know it may seem silly to be this upset about a bar closing. But for me and my friends it's truly an end of an era! I feel like I've lost a friend. One of those really great friends who would keep your secrets, who is there for you to celebrate your triumphs and to comfort you when your down. Good bye Martini Grill! You will always have a place in my heart. And all though you are gone you are not forgotten! As long as I can hold a martini glass in my hand you will be in my heart!
Love,
the 505 girls!
1 comment:
Hello Kim,
The Martini Grill as you know it (and where Sonya and I went on a date early on) closed many moons ago. I went there with a friend about a year ago only to discover that it had become a neuvo-goth sort of hangout. Gone were any semblance of jazz groups and "in" were loud obnoxious DJs and speakers blaring out industrial music to make your ears bleed. It was this new management that finally brought the club to its closing.
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