Experience is a combination of everything I have previously mentioned in the book - the balance of your lifestyle, your approach and professionalism, your hosting and the attention you paid to your guests. Their experience also depends on your charisma and presentation skills as well as your ability to deliver a better product, which is detail oriented and highlights the bar’s atmosphere, aroma, music, lighting or visual pleasures and memorisation of each and every guest. This is you, your creativity, and before you deny it, it’s there I can guarantee it.
An unforgettable experience is a compilation of detail, no matter how insignificant it may seem. It uses and connects all your senses and the senses of your guests. It’s like walking down a street, passing a bakery and an undeniable aroma of freshly baked bread and pastries take you back to an evening at your grandparents, or a movie featuring a famous monument you’ve seen, perfectly replicating the experience you had while visiting it. Or the sound of a song, during which you looked around for the very first time and saw your family, or the love of your life, and realised just how happy you really were.
Maybe it’s a book that you read, which transports you into an experience as if you were living it in that given moment: A salty sea breeze, a hot sun, hot sand and a sweeping view of a beach, your mouth filled with the taste of coconut water. Or it could be a memory staring a bartender making a cocktail, that you then search for hopelessly. Clutching a detailed recipe given to you by the bartender himself but finding that despite perfect replicas in other locations, the cocktail has never tasted anything like the original. You will understand that it wasn’t as simple as flavour, it was a feeling evoked by a humane and attentive bartender, the atmosphere, and the bar itself which you failed to perceive consciously but was nevertheless essential to the drink etched safely in your memory.
