Cocktails & Conversations

""You can learn a lot about someone from what they order to drink..."" A tie-slackened executive spilling his guts over his fourth Pernod, the late night exploits of a perverted chef, the poetic sensibilities of an addict obsessed with starting rumors about herself, a retired orchestral percussionist intent on teaching his son the ways of a gentleman, these and other stories based on real experiences from the Astral Plane, where the owner's sledgehammer brought down a wall to create enough room for Mick Jagger's entourage. Inside are their stories, with splashes of barroom lore and award-winning recipes from one of Playboy's ""top ten bartenders in the nation."" Bartender Magazine calls it, ""Often intriguing, always fun and surprisingly informative.""