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" Jeffrey Carreras, 42Tracey&amp;#039;s New Orleans What would you be doing if you weren&amp;#039;t bartending? Playing golf. As a career, though, what would it be? Playing golf. Kidding, I&amp;#039;m not worth a damn. I don&amp;#039;t know what my profession would be. How did you end up at Tracey&amp;#039;s? I owned a bar before this called Aerosol on the Irish channel here in New Orleans, and then sold that business and bought this business down the street three years ago. It kind of fell in my lap. You&amp;#039;re drinking a shot. What is it? Sambuca. I love the taste of licorice. What do bartenders know about drinking that the rest of us don&amp;#039;t? How to drink less and get drunk quicker. It&amp;#039;s not hard. All you have to do is ask. Fill in the blank: The best bars are _____ bars? Neighborhood dive bars. Dark, smoky, dusty cracks in the wall. The roughest-looking bars have the most character. What&amp;#039;s your favorite fictional bar, and why? Road House [as in, the Patrick Swayze movie]. It&amp;#039;s a wild, rowdy kind of bar. It seems like bars kind of run off that vibe. Some of the bars I&amp;#039;ve worked at have been that rough. What&amp;#039;s the best drink you ever had? It&amp;#039;s called a Skylab, and it&amp;#039;s made at Pat O&amp;#039;Brien&amp;#039;s, here in New Orleans. Rum, vodka, brandy, blue curacao, triple sec, orange juice, pineapple juice. It will knock you on your ass. What do you have to keep behind the bar at all times? A bottle of Jameson. We&amp;#039;re an Irish bar, so this is a necessity at all times. Louisville is known for mint juleps. Miami is known for mojitos. What is New Orleans known for? An old fashioned. Bourbon or a little bit of rye whiskey. A real New Orleans kind of drink. A customer says, &amp;quot;Surprise me.&amp;quot; What do you give them? A shot of lime juice and Bailey&amp;#039;s. It&amp;#039;s called a cement mixer. Best hangover cure? A roast beef po&amp;#039;boy, made right here in Na&amp;#039;Leans. With the Super Bowl in town this weekend, what are you expecting? We&amp;#039;re a sports bar, so it is probably going to be pure madness. Scale of 1-10? 12. How does it compare with other wild nights in New Orleans, like New Year&amp;#039;s or Mardi Gras?  Very similar. It&amp;#039;s going to be electric. New Orleans is a fun city year-round. And, Mardi Gras is next week, so really we&amp;#039;re just starting the party a little early. You always tailor the Super Bowl Sunday menu to the teams playing. What are you drinking (and eating) this year? This year we&amp;#039;re bringing in sourdough sandwiches \u2014 turkey with avocado \u2014 for the Niners, and Maryland blue crab for the Ravens. For beer we&amp;#039;ll do Flying Dog beer from Maryland and Anchor Steam from San Francisco. What was the most ridiculous thing you&amp;#039;ve witnessed when New Orleans last hosted a Super Bowl? The last time we hosted was 2002, which was a lot of fun, but the wildest was when the Saints won in 2010. The city exploded. We didn&amp;#039;t riot, but we partied straight for over a week. It was 10 days worth of boozing, with very, very little sleep. Who comes to the bar during Super Bowl? Fans of the teams playing? Tourists? Locals? A mixture of all the above. Mostly locals, but a lot of tourists. It&amp;#039;s always a pretty eclectic crowd of people. What&amp;#039;s the mood in the local crowd, especially if the Saints aren&amp;#039;t in it? No one really cares. We&amp;#039;d be more excited if they were in it, but we&amp;#039;re just really thrilled to have it here. It&amp;#039;s such a great city to host it in, and it&amp;#039;s nice to have it back for the first time since Katrina. Your prediction? Niner&amp;#039;s by 6. PLUS: Read More Bartender Wisdom on Eat Like a Man MORE GAME-DAY RECIPES:  Doritos Nachos &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; Steak Tacos &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; Hot Wings &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt;  AND: All the Recipes, Tips, and Trivia You Need on the Man&amp;#039;s Guide to Game Day &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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