Bloomin' Bloody Mary at Dempsey's Burger Pub, 623 Vermont St.

Bloomin' Bloody Mary at Dempsey's Burger Pub, 623 Vermont St.

It’s a cocktail! It’s an appetizer! It’s … the Bloomin’ Bloody Mary! This menu item is more powerful than a normal drink or sampler platter, able to fill multiple gastric needs in a single glass.

Yes, a drink with a small meal sticking out of it will turn heads at the bar. The drink part is a bloody mary in a jar. The food part — shooting out the top on an array of skewers — is a mini-cheeseburger, a chicken wing with hot sauce, a piece of bacon, a stalk of celery, a pickled banana pepper, olives, a cocktail onion, fresh jalepeño slices and a dill pickle spear.

Deciding whether this was “Off the Beaten Plate” or a “Lawrence Libation” was a tough call. But Dempsey’s is billing it as an appetizer, so who are we to argue?

Where to get it:Dempsey’s Burger Pub, 623 Vermont St.

What you’ll pay: $12

Try it with: French fries. Also a straw, so you can sip on the drink part while nibbling the food part at your own pace.

Also on the menu: An array of full-size gourmet burgers, fish and chips, fries, wings and another new item that blurs the lines between bar and kitchen: Dempsey’s Dirty Sunday — vanilla ice-cream with Guinness, house-made Irish cream, a sprinkling of cocoa powder and a cherry.