An Asoke bar with a Prohibition-era New York vibe is now whipping up scoops of ice cream, the latest bar to retool to adapt and stay afloat while the booze ban remains in place.
Q&A bar earlier this month reopened as an ice-cream parlor called QreAm with scrumptious, homemade frozen desserts ranging from creamy vanilla to yuzu sorbet and booze-infused G&Ts.
“It’s another lockdown, and I’ve unlocked a new skill,” said head bartender Attapon De Silva, whose bar was ordered shut by City Hall over a month ago.
‘We’re the forgotten ones’: Bartenders struggle, once again, to stay afloat during lockdown
Although defining himself as a “coffee snob” and “cocktail nerd,” Attapon ditched his favorite beverages and took a month to learn ice cream-making from scratch and experiment in the kitchen to develop a new line of products to please a larger…
