"... for Mr. Field, the 51-year-old head bartender at the Hemingway Bar at the Ritz hotel, it’s just another stop on a 27-month global journey — of wandering, reinvention, freelancing, passing the time — while the famed Ritz is renovated. ... The Ritz set the gold standard for hotel living when it first opened in an 18th-century residence on the in 1898. All that is landmarked will stay the same: the sculptures, marble staircases, the building facade, the bas-reliefs and wood paneling in the Imperial suite, and the ceiling and 18th-century marquetry floors of the Chopin suite. Of course, the wood-paneled, leather-armchaired Hemingway Bar (the reincarnation of Le Petit Bar) will not be disturbed. , , , , , , , , and (as well as , of course) all drank there. The royal highball and the seapea cocktail were invented there."