Drinking with 'Mad Men'
This Sunday, "Mad Men," arguably one of the best shows on TV, kicks off its third season. And we here at Richmond.com, at least the ones of us with some taste in quality television shows, are pretty stoked.
For those of you who don’t watch the show, it basically revolves around a 1960s ad agency in Manhattan. It centers on a cast of fabulous characters who drink and smoke as they struggle through their workday.
Then it follows the characters home and we watch them drink and smoke as they struggle through their home lives. And, in every episode, we get to see the characters blow off a little steam at their local bar, where they drink and smoke and struggle through their social lives.
How anyone can pass up quality TV like that is beyond me. But it got us thinking, if the characters of "Mad Men" were to come to town, just where would they go to do their drinking and smoking in the River City?
We’ll we’ve got some ideas.
Don Draper
The sexy, smoldering hero of the show is about as old school as it gets. He likes his martinis dry and up, his steak rare and his women … well, frequent and varied. So where would Don go throw back a few martinis? It’s a tie between the Old Original Bookbinder's Richmond and Morton's, The Steakhouse.
Roger Sterling
Don’s BFF is always on the lookout for the hippest spot that’s sure to throw in a little eye candy. He might grab a drink and steak with Don, but if it’s up to him, he’s heading down the road to Sensi for his nightcap.
Joan Holloway
Sterling Cooper’s secretary extraordinaire takes the party wherever she goes, and that means she wants to see and be seen. For this sexy, independent lady her drinks are coming from deLux … and you can rest assured none of them will be on her tab.
Peggy Olson
Peggy is an old school girl after our own hearts. We could see her hanging out at Bamboo, drowning her sorrows, and hoping to meet up with Pete after hours. Or, if she was like a Martin Agency girl (and you know she wants to be), she would scuttle down to Capital Ale House for a cosmopolitan at the ice bar.
Pete Campbell
He’s into the new swank, so we could see him hogging up a whole banquette at the new, improved Lemaire and ordering Dave and Dee’s oyster mushroom toasts off the Bar Menu. That is, of course, before he heads out to find Peggy … or maybe check in on the wife at home.
Betty Draper
Poor Betty. What’s a bored housewife with a negligent, cheating husband to do when she’s looking for a little fun? Betty needs something with an upscale feel, but she’s not daring enough to try a new spot on her own … not without her man by her side. So if Mrs. Don Draper is in need of a cocktail she’s heading down to Tobacco Company for the night.
Salvatore Romano
Sal has a lot of soul searching to do. And I mean a lot. The kind he should do without his wife. So if Sal’s going out on the town on his own, something tells me that he’ll find himself at Barcode … or maybe Nations. But he’ll never understand why.
Paul Kinsey
Poor copywriter Kinsey, he’s a man ahead of his time but trapped in his 1960s culture. Kinsey wants to break out of the shackles of 1960s society and try something new and different. He wants to feel like he’s walking in a different world, so he’s going to try his luck over at Sticky Rice.
Harry Crane
Where is the hippest place to go? Is it New York Deli? What about Avalon? Do people go to Buddy’s? Or maybe he should try 3 Monkeys. No one will tell Harry, but he’s not giving up without trying.
Father Gill
What priest doesn’t enjoy a good, stiff drink? Maybe the Beatles invasion hasn’t happened yet in "Mad Men" world, but as soon as it does, Father Gill is heading down to Penny Lane Pub for a few pints and night of tunes.
Ken Cosgrove
This literati-in-the-making would head over to Ipanema if he was taking a VCU MFA class. Or Can Can to hang out at the zinc bar and have a martini, extra dry, s’il vous plait.
"Mad Men" premiers Sunday, Aug. 16 at 10 p.m. on AMC.
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