Archive for December, 2009

Get Up…Get Out and Raise a Glass! A Brave New Decade Awaits.

Doubt that too many people will look back at 2009 and remember it as ‘the good old days’…but everybody you talk to has big plans and is ready to start 2010 in grand fashion. No matter where you plan to party Beverage Underground recommends that you take a cab, be the ‘easyrider’ and get home without a call to a lawyer. From Sal’s Longshot Lounge in Downtown Ft. Myers to The Edison on McGregor and from Yabba on Fifth Avenue in Naples to drinking all the way until 5 am at Vision on 41 in North Naples… we’ve got our eye on some great parties that cover the Beverage Underground and that can be recommended.

Ft. Myers: Downtown Countdown and The Edison Light it Up!
Naples: Yabba is Always Best Downtown and Vision Nightclub Pours til 5 AM!

Vision Night Club Open Bar Extravaganza Utilizes Special Collier License and pours liquor until 5 AM. This party will be the all night and late night place to be in North Naples as Vision Nightclub will rock all the way until 5am. Select 18-21 year old partiers will be permitted by for over 21 the best Open Bar Party in SWFL starts at 10 Pm and takes you all the way until 5am with legal cocktails! Only certain licenses, and only in Collier County is there a provision to stay open for 1 night per year until 5 am…and since Vision is one of the ONLY real nightclubs in SWFL the party goes from Moon Up til Sun UP!

Hospitality Business pops in Bonita and Naples and lights up the New Year!

At least 7 restaurants have opened or are getting ready to re-open from Bonita Beach Road to Naples, and while the gloomy outlook of the local newspapers remind us how bad it is, hospitality employees are working, earning and spending to make dining out in Southwest Florida better.
In Naples just north of the Coastland Mall, Master Chef Richard Amador is

‘Skinny Mixes’ reduce cocktails to just 100 calories each!

The best ideas come from a night out with friends enjoying cocktails, and when Jordan Englehardt and friends were sipping cosmos and margarita’s they decided it was time to make them guiltless. So some 18 months later, ‘Skinny Mixes’ are splashing on to the scene, offering a way to save almost 300 calories a cocktail.

Hospitality Pros need a gym where they can work out at a place that is priced right all year long. Planet Fitness is the official gym of the Beverage Underground and it’s owner/partner is one of us. Ryan Rodina worked as a bartender and later owned clubs on Florida’s East Coast. It’s the time of year that we are bombarded with money back offers for diets and gadgets, pills and promises to live better,

Third Annual Pine Manor Toy Drive Thursday December 17 – 7 pm

Bistro 41 invites everyone to come out for a great night of fun as guest bartenders, Wink-FM’s Gina Birch, Melissa Jensen, & Dave Iannone mix them up and mixed up ….Thursday Night December 17, all to benefit kids that need help this Christmas.

Pabst Brewing Co., which owns the Pabst and Schlitz beer brands as well as nearly 40 others, is up for sale again. Sales of the Pabst brand have stabilized after increases in the early part of this decade when it…

The Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease revealed statistics from a 21-year study that concluded that those who regularly drink three to five cups of coffee a day might beat the crazies. Once they you reach middle age, that amount of caffeinated…

Get smart and be a wealth of knowledge about ‘Joe’! These coffee facts are sure to inspire conversation and maybe win you a bet at the bar when you tell someone that those ‘double espresso’s’ are as strong as a single Folgers!

WORLD FAMOUS CIGAR BAR@ GULF COAST TOWN CENTER HOSTS ‘IN THE BIZ’ PARTY FOR H.I.P

The World Famous Cigar Bar always remembers the Hospitality Industry and Tuesday December 15 the Gulf Coast Town Center will be the site of a Holiday Party for an 8 PM ‘Bar Party’ co-hosted by Three Olives and the Beverage Underground. The Party features the chance to win 2 tickets to the NFL Pro Bowl to be held for the first time in Miami on January 31, 2010. In addition the first 50 Hospitality Industry Professionals that make it to the party will get a free Christmas gift