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the best bartender in Worcester Absinthe on the Rocks at Nick’s Bar and Restaurant I thought it would be green and make me wax poetically like Lord Byron. Instead, it was milky white and gave me cramps. Bartender Sean Courtney warned me to stick with Tanqueray &Tonic! (JFJ) Most regrettable restroom Nick’s Bar and Restaurant There’s a lot of Nick’s nostalgia fl oating around these days, but if I’m being honest, their restrooms never impressed me. Every time I tried to use them, Sean Courtney, the bartender, insisted on waking me up. It’s called a “rest” room for a reason, Sean. (SCS) Best pothole in the Ralph’s Rock Diner parking lot The Big One By The Train Tracks There are two kinds of people who park at Ralph’s Rock Diner: People who hate their car’s suspension, and cowards. Low riders have been known to order a taxi just to get to the front door.
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The Railer is a special beast because it is located at an unavoidable pinch-point between that haunted carpet factory and a lifted truck from Lickspittle, Pennsylvania. It’s lined with rocks that must dent one thousand rims in order to escape Samsara. It can’t be driven around, it must be charged at from the front like some kind of weird sexual bullfi ghting metaphor I’ll think of later. (MS) Best local beer for drinking in your basement Double Down Brewing Co’s ‘Sugar Plum’ Sour Allow me to sing for you the praises of the sensually complex sour beer, like really good fruit juice that’s been locked up in the Château d’If for a decade. Sour beers are incredibly mouth-loud and deliciously fruity, just like yours truly. There’s one brew which towers over the opposition, in the fi eld of “consumed in secret, while hiding from one’s family,” and that’s Double Down Brewing Co’s “Sugar Plum” Sour. Ideal for sipping while cramped behind a water heater, or discreetly poured into a Big Gulp during a videocall that should have been an email. (MS) Liquor store with the best music
WoMag columnist Sarah Connell Sanders and her bearded husband, Jake, at Armsby Abbey. ALLAN JUNG/TELEGRAM & GAZETTE
