bartender

When a bartender asked James Bond in 2006's Casino Royale whether he'd like his vodka martini shaken or stirred, the irritated spy replied: "Do I look like I give a damn?"

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

Then it becomes clear: An email pops into her inbox years after the break-up, summoning her back to New Orleans for the funeral of a bartender they both knew.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

“There are so few spaces for us,” bartender and musician Valerie Dean says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

At a Hilton Hotel bar near Tokyo, bartender Shingo Miyachi prepares a negroni with one of Kuramoto Ice's big, clear cubes.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

“Probably get a job as a bartender and tell everyone how happy I am that I don’t have to clean people’s teeth for a living.”

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

Unite Here Local 11, the union which represents workers including dishwashers, concession workers, bartenders and servers and SoFi Stadium’s food-service operator Legends Global, came to a tentative agreement days before the first match.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

Ice handling is considered an essential skill for Japanese bartenders, who often begin their training by learning to break it with precision.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

Or a new generation of candidates – tattooed veterans, mechanics, bartenders – whose biography is supposed to do the political work that policy has not.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

A group of men sits together on a sofa as bartenders place bottles of Chivas Regal in buckets of ice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

I think about the bartenders, and wonder what diabolical things they'll be putting into my cocktail.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman