Community Recent Comments Want to win your bartender's respect? Here are some dos and don'ts of drink orders First published on 1 Nov 2012. Updated on 16 Nov 2012. Ask for a dirty Hendrick's gin martini This is a double homicide summed up in one bad drink order. The problem? Gins are different. Hendrick's suits cucumber, not olives, so you're showing your ignorance, and secondly, dirty martinis (where you add olive brine) belong in dirty 80s movies. "You may as well order a kebab," as Everleigh man Alistair Walker puts it. Sweat the small stuff Calling for a certain top shelf liquor in a cocktail where it makes up an imperceptible portion of your drink is pretentiousness incarnate. Order countless pots of beer How much do you reckon bartenders love the fact that you're coming back every five minutes because you want to do cheap rounds? Be a candy bandit If your drink comes with an umbrella, or has the words melon, passionfruit or blue in the description and you're not in a pool, or at the LuWOW , don't order it. Sure, it's on the list, but only so the bouncers know which young trashbag's bags to search on the way out. Ask for an Espresso martini or Cosmopolitan Sorry, we're just the messenger here folks. We know you love 'em and they were on Sex and the City and all, but they're just not cool right now. Think of them as the woollen jeans of drinks. They may