Inside an illegal speakeasy in Baghdad Inside an illegal speakeasy in Baghdad Selling alcohol in Iraq can be dangerous business.
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This arrangement seems to remind people of a speakeasy, although it would take an especially clueless bootlegger to open a speakeasy inside a bar.
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They tend to refer to the Laundry Room as a speakeasy, but if it openly exists and you can make a reservation, it's not really a speakeasy, is it?
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These speakeasy shenanigans may annoy you, particularly when the speakeasy in question is advertised on a chalkboard out on the sidewalk, but it's hard to hold a grudge once you're inside.
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Rep.
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How did we get from a speakeasy to the 1960s?
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You push the door open and get to the speakeasy.
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Sen.
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"Speakeasy with John Harwood " is now available as a podcast.
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"Speakeasy with John Harwood" is now available as a podcast.
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The entrance to this sumptuous speakeasy is inside Chez Moi.
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Boîte: Savage Lounge Midtown The speakeasy can't seem to die.
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"It's hidden like a speakeasy, but it wasn't intentional," Mrs.
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Al Capone ran a speakeasy in the building's cupola. 2.
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The idea to open a speakeasy came from both of their experience working at Barts, self-proclaimed as "London's worst kept secret," a speakeasy bar with an underground atmosphere and vintage decor from the 1800s.
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Turns out, it's a nightclub/speakeasy, hidden behind a seamstress shop.
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The speakeasy scavenger hunt is insanely difficult and just as fun.
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Her speakeasy theory was buttressed by tales from her new neighbors.
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We started with damiana when we had a speakeasy in Oakland.
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For vegan eats with speakeasy vibes, visit Charlie Was a Sinner.
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Looking for a speakeasy as the cool fall temperatures roll in?
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In a speakeasy, there's no windows, there's no clocks, you're hidden.
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He also had a nightclub in the French Quarter called Oswald's Speakeasy.
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Veronica, a 16-year-old, suddenly owns a speakeasy under a diner?
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Joe Biden follows.
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Paul Ryan follows.
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Hillary Clinton follows.
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring John Kasich follows.
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Kevin Brady follows.
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Listen to the Speakeasy with John Harwood podcast featuring Stephanie Schriock here.
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For a whimsical cocktail, Gypsy Rose feels like an Art Deco speakeasy.
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Gary Cohn follows.
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Coon: We started working exclusively with mezcal during our Oakland speakeasy days.
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Local historians believe the bar operated through Prohibition by becoming a speakeasy.
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"We started with a speakeasy vibe," a waiter explained the other night.
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A preview of the Speakeasy can be seen at Como Audio's website.
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Senator Tom Cotton follows.
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A doorway disguised as a decorative wall panel leads down to this speakeasy.
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Mayor Pete Buttigieg follows.
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The game ends, and we head over to a speakeasy for a nightcap.
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Representative Jerry Nadler follows.
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Senator Cory Booker follows.
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Senator Chuck Schumer follows.
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An avant-garde speakeasy beckons from the basement beneath a humble doughnut store.
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Governor Gary Johnson follows.
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Senator Sherrod Brown follows.
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Governor Larry Hogan follows.
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Congressman John Lewis follows.
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He was involved in a kidnapping of a card game at a speakeasy.
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Every Thursday, new hires will serve beer to veteran employees at the speakeasy.
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Read more from the Gary Cohn Speakeasy interview: ... on keeping companies in America.
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It was a restaurant with a reputation — a former speakeasy, a literary haunt.
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Senator Mark Warner follows.
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It's been open since 1928, having started out as a speakeasy during Prohibition.
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And finally, what tunes get the night going at a Buenos Aires speakeasy?
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Senator Elizabeth Warren follows.
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Senator Al Franken follows.
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Senator Jeff Flake follows.
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Senator Shelley Moore Capito follows.
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel follows.
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Yangon now boasts a speakeasy, a microbrewery, and an izakaya selling yakitori and whiskey.
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Oh, and stay tuned—there may be a second speakeasy baby in the making.
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Smoke & Honey looks more like an exclusive speakeasy than a Los Angeles living room.
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"I found out about them in the newspaper," Cohn explained in our Speakeasy interview.
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During Prohibition, hidden "speakeasy" bars became popular spots where people could illegally drink alcohol.
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Bar Centrale is one of New York City's most exclusive and iconic speakeasy bars.
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This was a speakeasy event; you only knew the address after receiving a ticket.
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Covert Cocktail Club, a modern, speakeasy-like experience, only accommodates 10 people per evening.
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Like a speakeasy but without the booze, steps are hidden behind an inconspicuous door.
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"I had a crush on the experiment," Levin said at her speakeasy studio last month.
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Many prefer to add period-appropriate speakeasy furnishings that, while costly, adds a vintage flavor.
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Something interesting will go down with Veronica's attempt to open a speakeasy beneath Pop's. 4.
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We head to a speakeasy-style bar after dinner, and I have two more cocktails.
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Listen to this episode of Speakeasy on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Veronica, Reggie, & La Bonne Nuit Y'all, Veronica Lodge's (Camila Mendes) art deco speakeasy is open!
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Veronica wouldn't even open her dazzling speakeasy because Archie couldn't be there for opening night.
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Patrons enter through a locked back door speakeasy-style, with only trusted customers gaining admittance.
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Emily's List President Stephanie Schriock follows.
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The office featured a speakeasy, a full-service cafeteria, game rooms, and a small gym.
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Read more from the Gary Cohn Speakeasy interview: ... on Goldman Sachs and the White House.
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She grew up in a house with a speakeasy in the basement in Rockaway, Queens.
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Step inside this cavernous joint and it feels like you've stumbled into a Mexican speakeasy.
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In keeping with the speakeasy theme, the door always remains closed, and it's fully soundproofed.
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It was cool, and the vibe struck me as grand, old-school pub meets speakeasy.
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For Alan Yang, a screenwriter, she designed a faux speakeasy bar behind a hidden bookcase.
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This is a reassuringly gloomy bar that is said to have originated as a speakeasy.
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This is a reassuringly gloomy bar that is said to have originated as a speakeasy.
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This gorgeous bar next to the Terrace Restaurant had the feel of a luxe speakeasy.
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Cutting his teeth by opening his first speakeasy bar Casa Chai, he and girlfriend Flor Capella closed that down to open a second speakeasy, 878 (referred to as El Ocho), on a $7,000 budget in 2004, when Argentina was going through tough economic times.
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Beyond that, speakeasy guests will get to experience Klaxoon, a revolutionary approach to meetings and collaboration.
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Listen to this episode and more of Speakeasy on Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, or wherever you listen.
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After the museum, we walk over to a speakeasy style bar and restaurant for a cocktail.
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In addition to the SpeakEasy, Como is also announcing its first turntable, the Como Audio Turntable.
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Listen to this episode of Speakeasy on Apple Podcasts or wherever else you get your podcasts.
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It also hosts small food popups, and the basement coffee joint almost feels like a speakeasy.
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Together, they're also launching an event and catering company called 86, and speakeasy-style private dinners.
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One of the coolest parts of LinkedIn's NYC office is a "speakeasy," or a secret bar.
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The entrance to the office speakeasy is covered with old-fashioned rotary phones in various colors.
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK.I remember the first time I went to the speakeasy.
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I visited the speakeasy the day Donald Trump was elected, so that was a tall order.
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His father, Alfred, and mother, Celia Hoffstein, ran a speakeasy at one point, Mr. Marlborough said.
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For a speakeasy in Chelsea, she covered a 19-foot-long hall in voluptuous tropical leaves.
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Back in the day, they allegedly ran different businesses, one of which was allegedly the SPEAKEASY.
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One of New York City&aposs most exclusive and iconic speakeasy-themed bars is Bar Centrale.
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The closest thing to a speakeasy is Tadioto, a new whisky bar in the French Quarter.
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Other speed-testing sites like MegaPath SpeakEasy Speed Test and Bandwidth Place very likely use similar methods.
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Consumer Finance Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray follows.
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Sit on the patio to catch live music or venture upstairs to check out the mezcal speakeasy.
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We had them at a speakeasy in San Francisco a few months ago and now I'm hooked.
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The British-born creator collaborated with singer Katrina Cunningham to transform their space into an immersive speakeasy.
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Make sure to wander downstairs where a gorgeously designed speakeasy can be accessed via phone booth, too.
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And the cellar Kravitz converted into a to a speakeasy is stocked with bottles of Dom-Perignon.
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Josh Bolten, Business Roundtable President and CEO, follows.
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They found it in Pioneertown where a three-day jamboree called the Speakeasy was in full swing.
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The couple met in 2015 at a speakeasy in Dallas that is hidden behind a candy shop.
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CHUMLEY'S Historic, literary, glamorous, secretive: All describe this 2381s speakeasy that has been restored by Alessandro Borgognone.
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Boîte For more than a dozen years, the speakeasy-style Angel's Share has been an open secret.
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The initial idea was for Mr. Thrasher to open a second location of PX, his Alexandria speakeasy.
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BORRACHITO Restaurants are increasingly adding back-room annexes, usually speakeasy-style cocktail bars hidden behind dining rooms.
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The upcoming Omni Louisville Hotel, opening in March, will have a speakeasy that includes a bowling alley.
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There's also a speakeasy-style bar, Ocho y Cuarto, perfect for a pre- or post-dinner cocktail.
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The owner of a Brooklyn speakeasy was arrested and charged with violating the mayor's social distancing order.
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On weekends, ask for the password to get into the hidden speakeasy Straight Up. Rooms from $119.
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A former speakeasy on the lower level will become a 1920s-style bar: 19 West 22180st Street.
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My town's walkable center is also packed with restaurants, late-night snack spots, and even a speakeasy.
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Our chef had formerly worked at Michelin-starred Del Posto as well as a popular speakeasy restaurant.
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Get your pre-dinner cocktail at Marvel Bar, a speakeasy with a relaxed, neighborhood vibe that locals love.
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In a neat touch, the SpeakEasy is also designed to switch between being a stationary and portable speaker.
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But, Veronica has bigger problems since the speakeasy, and therefore the actual business of Pop's, is going under.
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The film cuts to a crowded Harlem speakeasy in which the literary men are the only white patrons.
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The holy grail of hidden drinking, however, is Midnight Cowboy, a former brothel (ahem, massage parlor) turned speakeasy.
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A partial transcript from Speakeasy with John Harwood featuring Office of Budget and Management Director Mick Mulvaney follows.
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I explained the task at hand to a woman helming the tiny speakeasy peephole of a sales window.
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Speakeasy-style establishments are all the rage right now, and whoever opened this location of Helen's knew that.
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Boîte Though the Prohibition-inspired speakeasy trend has cooled in recent years, the desire to drink underground hasn't.
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DINNERTABLE A new chef, Ricardo Arias, is reopening this speakeasy-style dining room, which closed temporarily in September.
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The chef's Small Batch opens in Roosevelt Field, a new speakeasy-style kaiseki restaurant, and other restaurant news.
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That enchanting speakeasy quality loses its shine if not enough people take the time to seek it out.
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Down a small flight of stairs is Le Baromètre, Morocco's first and only speakeasy-style craft cocktail bar.
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Evan Bucholz greets everyone who walks into his speakeasy, Brix & Rye, with a big smile and a handshake.
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Check. The formula for an ersatz speakeasy is replicated to a T, as are the meticulously prepared drinks.
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Its downstairs speakeasy, Ginny's Supper Club, is home to a weekly gospel brunch and live music on most nights.
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In July, Mendes — who portrays rich girl-turned-speakeasy owner Veronica Lodge on The CW series — confirmed to E!
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The underground bar there, accented with burnished wood, exposed brick and flickering bulbs, has the feel of a speakeasy.
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I'd been to the Koreatown bar a handful of times, but never to the speakeasy hidden inside of it.
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First of all, there is absolutely no explanation given for why Reggie is working at Ronnie's super-secret speakeasy.
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And to celebrate, the group's leaders threw a bash at a non-descript speakeasy in downtown Manchester Wednesday night.
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"We definitely are not going for the speakeasy style," Teens of Thailand co-owner Niks Anuman-Rajadhon tells me.
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This farm-to-table gastropub located in downtown Burlington showcases local cheeses and produce and provides a speakeasy feel.
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The bar upstairs at Butchertown Grocery is a speakeasy with no signage and no mention on the restaurant's website.
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Sieck said the speakeasy happy hour occurs each Thursday afternoon to help new hires bond with their new teammates.
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The mood was music carnival meets speakeasy meets open jam session, with a marriage ceremony thrown in for fun.
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Dinnertable A speakeasy-style 20-seater is tucked behind a bar, the Garret East, and requires ringing the doorbell.
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OK, it's a speakeasy, I thought as I grabbed a seat at the small bar and opened the menu.
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Many new friendships and relationships blossomed at the speakeasy, including a few that went on to marriage and children.
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Seconds later, the door creaks open, revealing a speakeasy-style Japanese whisky bar and music club called Tomi Jazz.
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They're calling it a "ramen speakeasy" because there's no sign, so you have to know how to find it.
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INDOORS Rumored to have contained a speakeasy early on, the house was renovated and expanded by the current owner.
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Bobby Heugel, the owner of this second-floor quasi-speakeasy, is a Japanophile, having visited the country many times.
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The dark Irish saloon, which opened as a speakeasy in 21990, was a beloved haunt for journalists and writers.
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Also at this time, gossip columns gained popularity, launching a number of speakeasy trends into the mainstream, including fashion.
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ENcounters The actor and comedian, a favorite of "Broad City," mixes mezcal and jokes at an East Village speakeasy.
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It's hard to imagine that Charles H., a glittering speakeasy inside the new Four Seasons Seoul, could have any problems.
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Maria's Packaged Goods: This speakeasy-style bar has a lot going for it: good people, good ambience, and good drinks.
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Will fear drive us back to the days of blackout tape over bar windows, speakeasy-like password entries, underground nightclubs?
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Powers works for her father in a speakeasy during Prohibition and sleeps with many of his customers at his behest.
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Two years later, the hundred-year anniversary of Rasputin's assassination, Zerazion opened Florence's first speakeasy, named after the emblematic figure.
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Read more: There's a hidden speakeasy complete with fancy themed cocktails located inside the first-ever Hello Kitty Grand Cafe
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Every single bar person I interviewed credited the speakeasy as the OG bar of the Singapore craft cocktail bar movement.
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After almost a decade closed, the venerable West Village speakeasy Chumley's, originally established in 1922, has finally reopened its doors.
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In a nearby neighborhood is Bar Suzanne, a new speakeasy named after one of Cohen's most celebrated muses and songs.
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The couple met in 2017 at a speakeasy bar in San Francisco and made their relationship official two weeks later.
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"For a long time it was like a speakeasy, where you'd bring your own bottle of booze," Ms. Jampol said.
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The Silver Lyon speakeasy bar is a chic and cozy spot to grab a craft cocktail in the original vault.
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Speakeasy culture may be everywhere these days, but Singapore's cocktail bars stood out for their uniqueness, approachability, and communal spirit.
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I recommend the authentic tapas at Bar Mut and La Pepita, and for speakeasy-style cocktails, 14 De La Rosa.
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The Metrokane Bullet Cocktail Shaker is ideal for amateur bartenders interested in creating a speakeasy aesthetic for their home bar.
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So what better way to celebrate the time period — and wizardry — than with a solid cocktail at your local speakeasy?
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Week in and week out, Mr. Dan is the well-rehearsed host and Svengali of this speakeasy in Silver Lake.
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Once married, the Andersons opened the nightclub Oswald's Speakeasy, where he performed, as well as a magic and curiosity shop, Sideshow.
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They went to a bar she'd never been to, an underground speakeasy type of place, with no sign announcing its presence.
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According to a description of the event on Eventbrite, Actors Hour hosts regular speakeasy events, where only artists are allowed entry.
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Once a speakeasy, this historic steakhouse mixes classic cocktails and retro entrees like Salisbury steak and lamb chops with mint jelly.
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Since its Prohibition days, the venue has transformed from a speakeasy, doctor's office, music venue, and back to a bowling alley.
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Up an anonymous set of stairs in midtown, the place has a bit of a speakeasy vibe, romantically dim and atmospheric.
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Up a set of anonymous stairs, the dining room has a bit of a speakeasy vibe, with a romantically lit bar.
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Brick walls and hanging plants are the backdrop for booths and tables; on the lower level, there's a speakeasy-style lounge.
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Then he hears a jazz combo playing from a second-story window, leading him into the ramshackle speakeasy of the title.
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"Nobody notices us here," said Mr. Tattersall, 73, of the remote location, which has the feel of a speakeasy for scientists.
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In Los Angeles, she played at the Black Rabbit Rose, a speakeasy-style bar that offers dinner theater and burlesque shows.
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The dining room, tucked in the back, was once what the owner called a ramen speakeasy, hidden behind a sliding bookcase.
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Finish the night at the Westminster, which will become a modern-day speakeasy with 13s-era cocktails and a live band.
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Proof and ProvisionUnderneath the historically bougie confines of the Georgian Terrace, there's a bar that's equal parts intimate lounge and speakeasy cellar.
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This is the hot jazz you might have heard in the speakeasy during Prohibition, the kind that kids would really swing to.
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To listen to the extended interview, subscribe to the Speakeasy with John Harwood podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever else you listen.
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It was a speakeasy-style dinner, held by private chef Claire Phelan in a location that was undisclosed until the ticket purchase.
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To open the speakeasy, you have to use your cell phone to call one of the rotary phones that cover the walls.
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For this was the original home of Milk & Honey, the neo-speakeasy from whose playbook dozens of other bars tore a page.
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If you order a raid on an opposing gang's speakeasy, you can take direct control and oversee how it all plays out.
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Regardless, Buddy's cooked the first Detroit-style pie at its McNichols and Conant Roads location, which opened as a speakeasy during Prohibition.
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As Buenos Aires' original speakeasy, what do you think about the city's current thirst for themed saloons that pretend to be unlicensed?
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Between the heavy curtains by the door and the dim lighting, walking into Charlie Was a Sinner feels like entering a speakeasy.
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Before long it's a thriving kiddie speakeasy, with minimal rules — don't go upstairs is the main one — and decidedly lax adult supervision.
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Just watch this promo video, full of simmering jazz and red strobe lights, to see the speakeasy-cum-museum atmosphere Hardcore promises.
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The sleek, minimalistic speakeasy is more suited for cocktail connoisseurs who can't handle the sensory overload in Ophelia or The Iron Fairies.
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On the other side of a stone arch lies a Detroit-pizza restaurant and, on the lower level, a speakeasy-style bar.
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Just around the corner from Slate, where our wealthy visitor would have dined, is Buck and Breck, a speakeasy-style cocktail bar.
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But Father Saad still lacks a vital element — government permission — which leaves his church with the legal status of a religious speakeasy.
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The Speakeasy is expected to start at $349, while a Google Home and Amazon Echo will run you $129 and $99.99, respectively.
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Sushi by Bou at Suite 1001 might be Manhattan's only sushi bar speakeasy run out of a 150-square-foot hotel room.
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Mezcaleria La Milagrosa might sound like a punch line in Aziz Ansari's "Master of None," but the allure of the speakeasy remains.
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One night in 1969, her grandson Roy recalls a disagreement escalating in grandma's kitchen-speakeasy and another woman charging her with a knife.
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That's as Riverdale as a wholesome, milkshake-slinging dinner that's actually a front for a speakeasy/gambling den run by a teen socialite.
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Though they initially contemplated a speakeasy-style hidden entrance, they quickly changed tactics for fear that no one would go looking for it.
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We met at a chic speakeasy, and a few drinks in, I suggested we bar hop — which we did, for another four hours.
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The coolest speakeasy in L.A. right now isn't hidden behind a refrigerator door in Venice — it's tucked behind the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood.
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Using mouth-watering toppings and snazzy mason jars instead of bowls, Quaker transformed the speakeasy into the perfect place to start your day.
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We went to the Monkey Bar – it has great history as a speakeasy and as a Tennessee Williams hangout from the 40's.
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This article originally appeared on VICE Sports UK. On a cobbled street in downtown Lyon, the door to a local speakeasy creaks open.
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Alessandro Borgognone, who is about to reopen the venerable West Village speakeasy Chumley's, calls it a "throwback" in its style, food and drink.
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The place next door was more my scene: a bar called Bodega with a "speakeasy"-style bar called the Rest in the basement.
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There's also Augustine, a French brasserie by restauranteur Keith McNally, as well as a speakeasy-style lounge called the Alley Cat Amateur Theater.
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It's "like a speakeasy," said Logan Daniel, a sound artist who has experienced the performance about half a dozen times since the 1990s.
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Paul Daigneault programmed the play as part of SpeakEasy Stage Company's 2019-20 season last summer, nearly a year before the news broke.
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One is a speakeasy called Allegory tucked away off the lobby behind two unmarked black doors with an extensive menu of craft cocktails.
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The rule simply turned the mound into a speakeasy, with many pitchers going undercover to get the same slippery edge as their predecessors.
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During the 1920s, the height of speakeasy culture in America, illicit venues and establishments that catered to gay clientele frequently hosted drag performance.
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The restaurant's bar area will become Room 09, a speakeasy-style bar run by Raul Esteban Yañez Campos, a partner in the restaurant.
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Since our stay, the hotel has added a speakeasy named Room No. 9, with mahogany, leather and velvet furnishings and a vintage piano.
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The Beatrice Inn in the West Village has been on New York's dining map since the 1920s, when it started as a speakeasy.
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Repair back toward central Honolulu for a nightcap at Harry's Hardware Emporium, a vintage-look speakeasy with a lengthy menu of craft cocktails.
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They started Public Agenda in 2016 and had recently partnered with Merchants to design a speakeasy-style bar also in Midtown, Sugar East.
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Anyone who has visited his Sydney cocktail bars will recognize their American aesthetic, with speakeasy-style hidden entrances and vast American whiskey selections.
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We'll be mixing those #MashHouse classics — like the MashBash, temporary tats, and our kickass speakeasy — with some new surprises that make Mashable, well, Mashable.
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Despite how awesome it is to go to these sneaky spots, these speakeasy spots and play some Street Fighter, that's really cool and all.
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There's also the aptly named Chandelier Bar, Marquee Nightclub, a few hidden speakeasy-style establishments, and of course, a full casino floor for gambling.
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" Nelson fashioned the 45-year-old basketballer a grown up version of the classic hideaway, which the Animal Planet host describes as a "speakeasy.
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Lesser points to larger music festivals like Coachella or Electric Daisy Carnival that have incorporated hidden speakeasy bars, scavenger hunts, or other immersive installations.
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J. Boroski MixologyThis dark, alley-side speakeasy might not be easy to find, but once you arrive, you'll cozy up for hours on end.
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Chances are you may know Camila Mendes from The CW's Riverdale, where she plays the pearl-adoring, occasionally name-dropping speakeasy founder Veronica Lodge.
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Rather than do their usual scavenger hunt, Gretchen finally convinces them (by lording her depression over everyone) to do a hunt for a speakeasy.
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There are multiple numbers, and although the department publishes some of them, they're usually handed from attorney to attorney like passwords to a speakeasy.
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The first entry of Jeremiah's Vanishing New York, in July, 2007, mourned the Greenwich Village speakeasy Chumley's, which had closed after a chimney collapsed.
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It led upstairs to the Manhattan Cricket Club, a speakeasy-style bar he frequents with a friend whose children go to the same school.
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On my last night in Boise, I went from the Bardenay distillery to Press & Pony, a dimly lit cocktail bar with a speakeasy vibe.
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Since opening Tomi Jazz to the public, Mr. Mukohata says the clientele has grown far beyond his expectations, many drawn by the speakeasy aesthetic.
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That's the origin story behind Patent Pending, a cafe in the NoMad area of Manhattan that transforms into a speakeasy-style bar at night.
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Size: 6633,238 square feet Price per square foot: $849 Indoors: An original paneled front door with a speakeasy-type peephole opens to a foyer.
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Said Bourrich creates a cocktail at Le Baromètre, the only speakeasy-style cocktail bar in Marrakesh, where homegrown creative types are transforming the city.
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Moxy's rooftop, for example, is accessible through a separate alleyway on Seventh Avenue with a "speakeasy feeling," said Mitchell C. Hochberg, president of Lightstone.
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But as part of an exercise with Mr. Savlov, Mr. Buckwald also told his children about a relative who ran a speakeasy during Prohibition.
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With speakeasy-style magic shows and cocktail bars, the on-site offerings are so well-curated and experiential, it's a shame to miss them.
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For a fancier feel, sip on a custom cocktails at The Doggery — a Prohibition-era speakeasy (no, sadly, I don't think dogs are allowed).
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Chumley's Alessandro Borgognone, an owner of Sushi Nakazawa, will reopen Chumley's, the legendary 1920s West Village speakeasy that suffered severe structural damage seven years ago.
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And, with that brand new Riverdale twist, everyone's favorite mob-drug-serial killer-cult-boxing(????)-speakeasy young adult drama rights its formerly slightly shaky ship.
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Tensions boiled over in the summer of 1967 when Detroit Police raided an African-American speakeasy in the dead of the night on July 23.
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A speakeasy-style bar and restaurant, backed by the people behind the meatpacking district nightclub SL, was reported to be moving in, but nothing materialized.
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As anyone who has ever been to a speakeasy knows, the final result will be disappointing but this time the trip there is surprisingly great.
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Midnight Rambler A speakeasy downstairs at The Joule Hotel, Midnight Rambler feels like stepping back in time to a jazzy era where cocktails are king.
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What is open to the public, however, is their live DJ set and installation in the Upstairs speakeasy from 10pm - 2am, though you must RSVP.
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The two-story home that houses the speakeasy was built in 1922, and all of the bar's furnishings are period-appropriate to match the concept.
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Launched in 2004 as series of weekly shows at a Melbourne speakeasy, the Laneway festival expanded to Singapore—its only stop in Asia—in 2011.
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Moneygun26223 W. Lake St, Chicago, IL 6066 (312) 600-36093 A West Loop speakeasy serving classic cocktails and small plates right up until closing time.
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Our waiter claimed ignorance of the nearby speakeasy, insisting he had never heard of it and suggesting that we must be mistaken about the location.
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Gonzo ClubAt the super-popular, part-punk, part-speakeasy Gonzo Club, you'll find Swiss coeds ready to dance it out any night of the week.
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The effect is that of a speakeasy, known only to daytime drinkers, restaurant and night-shift workers, and other musicians who drop in to listen.
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The prohibition-era speakeasy "219.5" has a disappearing bar and secret wine cellar that it boasts about on its website — not such a secret anymore.
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As a teenager, Edd Cartier painted the murals for his father's speakeasy in New Jersey, and he studied under H.W. Scott at the Pratt Institute.
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Along the way, they discovered that just before the restaurant changed its name to Gallaghers in November 215, it was a speakeasy called Club Evelyn.
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Though the Prohibition era is often defined by what people couldn't do, the speakeasy opened American culture to possibilities that were unthinkable at the time.
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Below a hat shop in SoHo, through a door marked only by the Chinese characters for "tavern," this speakeasy engages nightly in a quiet revolution.
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They're also very attracted to things that are mysterious or unexpected, so take them to a speakeasy or a hidden waterfall for a moonlight picnic.
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And Hope and Sesame, a "speakeasy" jazz bar which was on Asia's 50 Best Bars list for 2019, is selling bottled versions of their cocktails.
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One of SXSW's most coveted hangouts is the Mashable House Easter Egg Speakeasy where folks come for the private bar, and stay for the awesome people!
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At Pop's, Veronica tells the Core Four that Pop's basement used to be a speakeasy and she wants to reopen it for North and Southsiders alike.
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And for the traveler, there's Maurizio Maestrelli's Speakeasy: Secret Bars Around the World — a guide to the trendy bars that are not so easy to find.
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On Kickstarter, Como is starting a campaign for a speaker called the SpeakEasy, which retains the company's old-fashioned designs but adds in the Google Assistant.
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Price: $14.99 I will use this for the cover charge at a well-known NYC speakeasy themed club, where I could be photographed with my boyfriends.
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Angel's Share: The bar that had a major hand in kicking off both the East Village speakeasy trend, and the city-wide obsession with Japanese mixology.
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Read more: I toured the surprisingly bonkers LinkedIn offices in the Empire State Building, which has a 'speakeasy' bar hidden behind a wall of rotary phones.
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WeWork opened a gym business, turned a Wall Street mailroom into a public speakeasy bar, and recently opened a school inside its New York City headquarters.
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Through its partnership with Union Settlement in East Harlem, House of SpeakEasy encourages writers to talk with high school students in its monthly College Readiness Program.
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For there is still a place in this city where a permanent fur coat is no obstacle to entry: the speakeasy underworld of the dog bar.
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There aren't many places in New York that offer great breakfasts, $20-something pastas, and a Michelin Star restaurant and speakeasy bar all in one spot.
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It has since closed, and now the space, which was a speakeasy back in the day, has become a cocktail lounge with a mission of sustainability.
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The Ledge, on the second floor, is a 2343s California-style bar with a year-round roof deck; the speakeasy-style Green Room is installed upstairs.
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The club has a speakeasy feel with stone walls made warm with mood lighting and casual seating, not to mention a Steinway Model B grand piano.
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Nearby, at Black Diamonds gallery, part of the art was displayed in a surprise speakeasy (dim lights, vintage armchairs, red-painted walls), hidden behind the booth.
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To cover the rest of his tuition, Musk and a buddy would turn their house into a speakeasy on the weekends, charging $5 at the door.
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Character Study The venerable "221" Club on West 52nd Street is famous — notorious, even — for its speakeasy heritage and its history of well-known, well-lubricated regulars.
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Hoping for a change, she acquired a speakeasy in Manhattan, but this lead to several years of alcoholism and a morphine addiction that lasted into the 30s.
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He even keeps his cool when his friends decide to break into the home of a Mexican family, believing it to be the covertly hidden speakeasy entrance.
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He envisions his out-of-the-way speakeasy with its red painted walls and old Arab movie posters as a place where people can truly be themselves.
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Of course, you can ignore my history-obsessed methods of making ingredients from scratch as if you were doing this all behind the bar of a speakeasy.
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Be sure to keep an eye on Mashable's Instagram story throughout SXSW to see how you can earn your way into the Mashable House Easter Egg Speakeasy.
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Inside Mashable's secret speakeasy (oh yeah, did we mention there was one of those?), curious guests were treated to a variety of unique food and beverage experiences.
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Netflix hosed a 1930s speakeasy-style bar, with poker, live music and a game to encourage visitors to take and share photos and compete to win prizes.
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And when it's time for a drink, head to the speakeasy Happiness Forgets and then onto Sketch for dinner and judgement-free selfies in the futuristic bathroom.
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That was when I started my speakeasy, direct-trade, sashimi restaurant that used the exact same, crazy-expensive fish as the best sushi restaurants in San Francisco.
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It never had a sign so the neighbours didn't realise it was a speakeasy—they thought it was a swingers' bar or that we were people-traffickers.
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Boîte It has been six years since Albert Trummer (center, above), the madcap Austrian bartender, was arrested after setting his cocktails aflame at Apotheke, a Chinatown speakeasy.
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SpeakEasy, which is based in Boston, targets shows that can generate cultural conversation, he said, and if anything, the scandal will make the conversation resonate even more.
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In 1997, the owners of Ratner's, the famous kosher dairy restaurant on Delancey Street that is now closed, opened a speakeasy in the back called Lansky Lounge.
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Touted as Amman's first speakeasy, this cocktail bar inside the Conroy Boutique Hotel is where trendy types gather during the colder months (it's closed in the summer).
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It wouldn't feel as much like a "hidden gem," which is what people are looking for in a modern speakeasy — or at least what I look for.
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"My wife and I have realized that basically our tastes meet at the intersection of hotel lobbies and speakeasy bars," Lewis had told me, in New York.
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Hidden away from the main room in Park Row is Harley Quinn's villainous speakeasy, Old Gotham City, which is described as serving inventive drinks alongside sharing bites.
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Streetscapes A modest Clinton Hill street filled with former stables and garages has been home to steeds and Studebakers, but also artists, restaurants and maybe even a speakeasy.
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It's a retrofitted house, filled with nooks for conversation, pastel lighting, plenty of space for a dance floor, bars, and a shed that's been converted into a speakeasy.
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Darkly lit, with leather and wood and brass and tin tile ceilings, it's since been updated with a timeless speakeasy feel for modern dames and their dapper Dans.
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The newly renovated bar sits below what are now apartment units, but the bar itself, a former speakeasy when the Fitzgeralds lived there during Prohibition, is the centerpiece.
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So it might be tempting to dismiss this new riff on the Japanese speakeasy, which is situated in the basement of Airs, a bar that primarily serves champagne.
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Like owners of a digital sports speakeasy, these video pirates warn viewers that the show will end soon and alert them where to go next to keep watching.
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By the 1950s, the Old Fashioned, the Manhattan and the gimlet could be found at P.J. Clarke's, Sardi's and the 21 Club, which survived Prohibition as a speakeasy.
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In the basement are the original (nonfunctional) furnace and two paintings that seem to date from the speakeasy age, as well as an additional bedroom and full bathroom.
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They opened Madame Claude Bis, a basement bar with high ceilings, brick walls, a round-the-corner speakeasy entrance, Gypsy jazz and a full menu of French wines.
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Como's Speakeasy model, due to be released in November, has features that tech-savvy music lovers have come to expect: It is wireless and equipped with Google Assistant.
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The Atelier, a 275,230-square-foot speakeasy bar with a lease until 2000, occupies the lower level, which has its own entrance and an elevator for handicapped access.
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A group of five blocked the stairway down to the bar's basement speakeasy, snapping selfies with a taped-up, life-size photograph of Russian President Vladimir Putin's head.
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SillyOne of the coolest parts of the city is discovering unknown speakeasy bars in places that feel like awesome buildings but turn out to be locally owned darts bars.
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" They quickly leave and dance it out at a nearby speakeasy while Jidenna grabs the mic and kicks melodic rhymes about black upliftment that each end in "my knickers.
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This club occupies the old Federal Reserve Bank in downtown Los Angeles, costs $88 a month, offers free coffee and feels more like a speakeasy than an office space.
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Among game professionals, LA is known as a sort of video game speakeasy, where you can get an early copy of Mass Effect if you know the right people.
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According to police, Gutierrez-Garcia and her friends celebrated St. Patrick's Day on Saturday evening at two locations: a bar called the Speakeasy and a restaurant called Breaker's Grill.
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The Gibson: Located above The BBQ Joint on 14th street (with which it shares a kitchen and prep space), The Gibson is another member of the DC speakeasy scene.
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Arlo's toiletries were sourced from Blind Barber, a boutique barbershop with East Village roots (tip: visit the speakeasy bar), and I loved the citrusy, energizing lemongrass and rooibos scent.
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In 1918, the building was turned into the Herbert Grand Hotel, which had a basement speakeasy and was the first hotel north of Boston to have in-room telephones.
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The kind of tunes you can imagine emanating, muffled, from a dark basement only to have the door swing open to reveal a rambunctious speakeasy where everyone's brilliantly boozy.
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Lately, those have included speakeasy and cocktail events, chef events like the one I attended, and meet-and-greets at exclusive, small-venue concerts with artists like Lennon Stella.
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The best drink I had in Vegas was at the Laundry Room, a hidden speakeasy tucked into the back of an expansive bar called Commonwealth in Downtown Las Vegas.
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For that production, capitalized at $1 million, the team turned an old fast-food restaurant into a space with a false locksmith's shop facade and a speakeasy vibe inside.
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The outdoor Garden Bar and the Front Row Food Market, a group of food trucks, start May 24, and a cocktail lounge called Mr. Cannon Speakeasy opens June 19.
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It is designed to match the aesthetic of the original Attaboy, which in 2013 took the place of Milk & Honey, a speakeasy that helped ignite the current cocktail renaissance.
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Inspired by the Hanky Panky cocktail created by the celebrated bartender Ada Coleman for London's Savoy Hotel in the 22s, this speakeasy opened in La Juárez late last year.
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Even though alcohol is legal today, New Yorkers still love their "speakeasy" bars hidden in places like the back of Chinese restaurants, behind art galleries, and underneath other bars.
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Beyond, ticket holders will find three stories of ice cream installations, including a gallery of ice cream history and a speakeasy-style lounge where sundaes and shakes are served.
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Beneath the rafters on the third floor of the former ironworks factory that now houses Pioneer Works, her studio is decorated (with props from a film set) like a speakeasy.
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Regarding Cocktails | $30 Surprise your guests with one of the 85 illustrated drink recipes from this book by Sasha Petraske, the owner of the famous New York speakeasy Milk & Honey.
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Dubbed The Fridge, Bar Gyu+, with its cozy speakeasy ambience and candlelit wooden tables, is famous for its old and rare Japanese single-malts, a selection that changes every season.
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If we had to describe Twitter's New York headquarters in a 140 character tweet, it would go something like this: A speakeasy, latte art, trap doors, and rosé on tap?
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In early August, while the Aviary space was still a construction zone, a visit to the Office, Achatz's quiet speakeasy next door, delighted even a clutch of jaded New Yorkers.
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The intimate space — in a prime spot off a communal kitchen, lounges and a central staircase — looks like an old speakeasy, with warm lighting, leather seats and a polished bar.
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Karasu Tucked, speakeasy style, behind their restaurant Walter's, Danny Minch and Dylan Dodd have turned an Art Deco room into a Japanese izakaya with a more elegant approach than usual.
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Still, some enthusiasts have higher hopes for the business, which opened more than a decade ago as a kind of speakeasy for marijuana smoking — long tolerated by the city's authorities.
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This punchy cocktail found at speakeasy the Red Frog blends ruby port wine with Lisbon's signature ginjinha (wild cherry liqueur), a splash of Venezuelan rum, chocolate bitters, and smoked cinnamon.
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Julián Díaz: Yeah, my first bar was totally illegal—a real speakeasy—and it was 2002, a time when the country was in crisis and there were scarcely any controls.
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With real estate costs in the stratosphere, New York restaurants now capitalize on every inch of space — hence, all the speakeasy-style nooks tucked over, under and around existing restaurants.
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Lugano seems to be catching the wave of multi-function nightspots where happening restaurants segue into meditative whiskey bars before becoming speakeasy-style clubs that rock until the small hours.
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The storytelling series, hosted at this Lower East Side venue with speakeasy vibes, celebrates the female revolutionaries who often don't get their fair share of real estate in history books.
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Its memes and slang serve as the passwords to an internet speakeasy, a secret club whose rules one moderator justified as existing to create a "safe space" for Trump supporters.
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At the start of the fall semester in 21, University of Pennsylvania classmates Stephen Kuhl and Kabeer Chopra were grabbing drinks at The Franklin Mortgage & Investment Company, a Philadelphia speakeasy.
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The bartender Jim Meehan, a pioneering figure in the craft-cocktail revival, is no longer involved in PDT, the acclaimed East Village speakeasy that he helped found 12 years ago.
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Blaise and I had our first date in a dorm at the Fashion Institute of Technology that might as well have been a speakeasy because alcohol certainly wasn't allowed there.
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Scroll on to take a peek and plan your very own visit to a Marie Antionette-inspired speakeasy, shave some table side shawarma, sip a flaming s'mores scorpion bowl, and more.
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I grabbed a Nashville hot chicken sandwich from Hattie B's and then slipped into Ghost Donkey, an intimate Mezcal speakeasy tucked behind a green door marked simply with a donkey illustration.
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We're told Rice couldn't have been nicer with the partiers ... posing for pics and chatting for a while, before taking the rage fest to the On The Record speakeasy and club.
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The walkout basement has the look of a speakeasy, with a recently restored vintage bar and a London telephone booth embedded in a wall, allowing passage through its two open sides.
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His representatives confirmed to NBC News that Weinstein was in the audience at Actors' Hour, a speakeasy-style show dedicated to artists, after numerous accounts popped up on social media Thursday.
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Between speakeasy-like "secret" venues and a roster of buzzy young artists dropping hit after hit, the Lone Star State's biggest city is quickly cementing its influence in the underground scene.
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With just this issue in mind, I asked Trump in CNBC's Speakeasy interview last year how he would address disappointment among his backers if he makes it to the Oval Office.
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It may enhance the mood to sample the local fried specialty, savor a scoop or two of gelato, or spend a late night getting a cocktail in an underground speakeasy bar.
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The hottest bars will be hidden Take a break from the chaos of SXSW, enjoy a custom cocktail and mingle at our top-secret speakeasy, hidden deep within the Mashable House.
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Once a two-bit theater with any kind of popcorn you like as long as it was salt, it's now a sofa-equipped hangout more like a speakeasy than a cinema.
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But inside, customers will find a velvet curtain, and beyond it a speakeasy-style cocktail lounge where drinks, both classic and creative, are served with bar snacks: 7000-223 Ditmars Blvd.
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Which is why a new spot from the team behind the Lower East Side's Attaboy has flouted many of the elements that speakeasy lovers generally cherish—elaborate recipes, elusive reservations, waistcoats.
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The KGB Bar and the Red Room Speakeasy music venue, and the New York Comedy Club and the Kraine Theater will remain open, with limited seating capacity following the governor's guidelines.
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And in the basement, Brudnizki designed a moody speakeasy called No Entry, with pink mohair velvet walls and a red marble bar as a nod to the neighborhood's red-light past.
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She became a bubbly evangelist after spending time at the Office, a famed Chicago speakeasy, and helped direct several champagne-focused ventures, including Riddling Widow, a subterranean bar in Greenwich Village.
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A Contemporary Theater in Seattle, Echo Theater Company in Los Angeles, Curious Theater Company in Denver, Studio Theater in Washington, and SpeakEasy Stage Company in Boston have productions planned as well.
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Chemistry flasks from the 1960s serve as decanters, and behind the long tasting counter, there's a speakeasy style bar with velvet booths and wallpaper, and Prohibition-era photos of Napa Valley.
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Downstairs was a small speakeasy, a red-lit cellar with textiles and Malick Sidibe photographs on the walls, and a record player atop dated speakers, playing Bob Marley and Manu Dibango.
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In "Baby Face" (1933), one of the most pungent movies ever made in Hollywood, Barbara Stanwyck plays Lily, a young woman raised in a speakeasy next to a Pennsylvania steel mill.
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The menu at this speakeasy-style bar include upscale classic cocktails, rare spirit and creative concoctions with names such as Mixtape, Hans Solo, Curiosity Killed and Love through Space and Time.
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Death's Door is among the sixty gins, fourteen of them American, that are dished up at Bathtub Gin, on Ninth Avenue, in Manhattan, which does a decent impression of a speakeasy.
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Tom Gibson is the man behind Ruby's, a basement speakeasy in a former Chinese takeaway that's been a feature of every London cocktail bar round-up since it opened in 2012.
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Quanta Magazine joined Levin in her speakeasy on a recent Thursday afternoon, in time for the happy hour she put on before dashing off to a speaking engagement at the French Embassy.
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Before Alejandro, I had only experienced the romance of New York with Digo, when we met up at a speakeasy and spent the next day walking arm in arm around Central Park.
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The digital character's movements and gestures were being supplied in real-time by an actor (Michael Bates, from the LA-based immersive theatre troupe The Speakeasy Society) wearing a motion-capture rig.
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While tickets to the yoga session are sold out, we invite you to join us afterwards in the Mashable House Easter Egg Speakeasy for fresh juices and your favorite belVita Breakfast Biscuits!
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The inciting incident, a police raid on a black speakeasy, and the government response, a mobilization of both the National Guard and the U.S. Army, set the tone for the ensuing decades.
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The pair will be attending a private party hosted by talent manager Eric Podwall on April 29, the night before the event known as Nerd Prom, at the DuPont-area speakeasy Sheppard.
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The wood-paneled elevator that ferries guests up to "Flight" at the McKittrick Hotel rises at a languid pace, and the tinny, piped-in music sounds like something out of a speakeasy.
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Downstairs in the building, which Mr. Degel decorated to look like an old meat warehouse, is a speakeasy-style bar: 103-18 Ditmars Boulevard (37th Street), Astoria, Queens, 917-745-1553, unclejacksmeathouse.com.
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The trainers we spoke with say many of their clients MUST keep working out, and to meet the demand amid mass shutdowns throughout California, speakeasy gyms are becoming the go-to locale.
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The Packing House is also home to Anaheim's only speakeasy, The Blind Rabbit, where creative cocktails and Old-World décor await, if only you can find the front door (drinks around $203).
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"Black authors could not be published by white publications, white magazines or by white publishers," Randall said in a 22001 interview with Speakeasy Culture, a literary publication out of Central Michigan University.
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A more intimate vibe can be found at Mezcaleria La Milagrosa (149 Havemeyer Street, Brooklyn), a 15-person speakeasy hidden in the back of a Mexican grocery store, behind a freezer door.
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SFMOMA Four-Piece Party Server | $26 Surprise your guests with one of the 85 illustrated drink recipes from this book by Sasha Petraske, the owner of the famous New York speakeasy Milk & Honey.
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Here, they discuss the increasingly heated political climate in the U.S. Subscribe to John Harwood's Speakeasy podcast on iTunes There are not enough investigative reporters nosing around on Wall Street or at capitals.
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Ms. Radcliffe surmised that the sumptuous mahogany-paneled addition had been a Prohibition-era speakeasy, and that its proprietors had concealed their alcohol in the vault and their cash inside the smaller safe.
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Mai BarMai Bar is a comfortable Hutong speakeasy with a seriously good old fashioned — aka a great date-night spot and place where you can feel like a local halfway across the world.
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While studying biology and working as a research lab assistant at NYU, she became fascinated with discovering all the different tastes and variations at a doorbell-only sake speakeasy in the East Village.
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The former 1920s speakeasy—which is still around today—is actually an incognito gay bar, but the manager is in cahoots with the activists and refuses them service in front of the reporters.
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The preview took place at a cocktail party, hosted by GQ magazine and Bloomingdale's, at the Gent, GQ's speakeasy-like event space in a penthouse on Broad Street, high above the financial district.
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Read more from the Gary Cohn Speakeasy interview:... on keeping companies in America.... on Goldman Sachs and the White House.... on Cohn's plan after tax reform.... on the value of trickle-down economics.
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Since this is Tokyo, a scant strip of tape with minuscule lettering by the elevator in a generic office block offers the only indication from the ground floor that the speakeasy even exists.
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We'd do this differently next time: Stay on a different day of the week to take advantage of the Alley Cat Amateur Theatre, the speakeasy-style basement lounge with live music and DJs.
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Hiroki Odo, who was the executive chef at Kajitsu, in Murray Hill, is opening his own kaiseki restaurant hidden, speakeasy-style, behind Hall, the all-day cafe and bar he opened in November.
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But what you're really going for is the atmosphere, each bouchon — even the touristy ones that pack the narrow cobblestone streets of Vieux Lyon, the Old Quarter — feels like its own secret speakeasy.
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The outdoor wood-fired oven turns out Catskill-inspired pies (broccoli shoots and local chèvre) and above the kitchen, there's a bar designed by Westergreen's partner, Christopher Tierney, of the Manhattan speakeasy Apotheke.
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I still feel like I'd need to be in a speakeasy to use it right but plan to throw it out there soon, with enthusiasm, the next time I pay a high compliment.
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As Rummy's domineering wife is dragging him to a temperance meeting—where he'll serve as " the horrible example" 26 —he sneaks off to Harry's soda fountain, which is a front for a speakeasy.
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In his interview with "Speakeasy with John Harwood," Fox, a frequent Trump critic, says Mexicans are "offended" by Trump's rhetoric and calls for a wall to be built along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Not far away, Commonwealth has a rooftop bar with dangling patio lights and a top-secret speakeasy, the Laundry Room, where you have to text a special number to get in the door.
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The light heavyweight champ celebrated his victory over Anthony Smith at On The Record -- the speakeasy inside Park MGM -- and was swarmed by fans and friends, raising glass after glass of champagne to him.
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One part East Coast-style bodega, one part West Coast-style liquor store, one part true delicatessen, and one part speakeasy, this hidden shop is the work of 26-year-old restaurateur Jeremy Fall.
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Carrie breaks down into a fit of obnoxious tears after learning of Big's heart surgery (which he calls, "a little heart thing") over a steak in the Bar Room of this legendary Manhattan speakeasy.
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At the Great Britain House, a three-story enclave that took over Speakeasy on Congress Avenue, festivalgoers could experience a virtual orchestra, VR activations and displays from a host of tech-savvy UK companies.
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Bourbon & Branch: This Tenderloin speakeasy has a giant book of cocktails, an amazing interior, and was (a decade ago) one of the main drivers that brought whiskey/Prohibition-era cocktail culture to the city.
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Now I look forward to returning because the bar, which opened as a speakeasy in 1922 and remained somewhat hidden — no sign — even after Prohibition, will be serving serious food by a talented chef.
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Not only were there fun rooms — like a secret "speakeasy" where new hires serve drinks to veteran employees each Thursday — but the office was surprisingly inclusive for working parents and people who don't drink.
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No one told me Scientology daddy would be there, and that this would likely be going down in some Sea Org speakeasy, and that I'd likely end up on a weird mailing list forever.
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From the double-height lobby dotted with reproduction Dalí chairs to the speakeasy-style Punch Room, and the rooftop bar with panoramic city and sea views, every space seems created with Instagram in mind.
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The groom's mother is a practice manager at Isaacson, Miller, a higher education executive search firm in Boston and is also on the board of directors of Speakeasy Stage, a theater company in Boston.
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By night, this parlor, Victorian in décor with gold wallpaper, purple velvet benches and a stately little library, is Garfunkel's, a speakeasy-style cocktail lounge at 67 Clinton Street on the Lower East Side.
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Penicillin In 2005, at the New York speakeasy Milk and Honey, Sam Ross had been playing with some new whiskies from Compass Box and was smitten by Peat Monster (a rich, smoky blended Scotch).
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In the coming months, the group will also open the Lo downstairs, a 45-seat speakeasy-style cocktail lounge where guests can convene for pre-dinner drinks, or afterward linger into the late hours.
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Alice Wentworth (the lady on the examining table, played to sparking soubrette perfection by Scarlett Strallen) has fallen hard for a hunky speakeasy-owning gangster, Al Spanish (Tam Mutu, in tasty shades of noir).
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The inspiration for the space — a combination of two bars with room for 26 and a smaller speakeasy-style lounge named Edie's (for Edie Sedgwick, a muse) — is the Factory, Warhol's Union Square studio.
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In the end, it's Gretchen who offers a viable option and an honest reason for it: She wants to search for an ultra-secret speakeasy, and she wants a win after her battle with depression.
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For the past year, Oh's been jumping between his home base in Los Angeles to San Francisco, where he told me he's launching a new Korean BBQ restaurant and backyard patio-esque speakeasy called um.ma.
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Over on Riverdale right now, its teenagers are building gambling den-speakeasy empires, pulling heists, creating elaborate boxing schemes, selling drugs, joining cults, investigating S&M clubs, and sharing a single bunker cot for sex.
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To kick off the Speakeasy festival in April, La Copine hosted an alcohol-fueled three-course dinner of spring pea and tendril salads and coq au vin (wine was B.Y.O.B.) for locals and tourists alike.
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He sets up a fake velvet rope that makes it seem like there's an impossible-to-get-into speakeasy in the back of Mabel's and all the hipsters line up trying to guess the password.
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After the release of the final issue, he plans to spend 10 days touring in a "bookmobile" from Brooklyn to New Orleans in conjunction with the literary arts nonprofits House of Speakeasy and Narrative 4.
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The Worcester festival is located in a city experiencing a development boom that includes importing a minor league baseball team, and an influx of breweries, artisanal bakeries and speakeasy-style bars in the city's suburbs.
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The Horse Inn, a Prohibition-era speakeasy that was reopened in 2798, serves Tips 'n Toast, a beefy bread pudding from the bar's early days, updated with a veal demi-glace and locally baked bread.
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The firm designed the Back Bar, a speakeasy behind an unmarked exterior door at the rear of Young Joni's building, to resemble the lakeside cabin that her husband's family owns in his native North Dakota.
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The firm designed the Back Bar, a speakeasy behind an unmarked exterior door at the rear of Young Joni's building, to resemble the lakeside cabin that her husband's family owns in his native North Dakota.
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On a recent Thursday, in a library-like speakeasy at a labyrinthine event space in Chelsea, the actors Rufus Collins, Willem Dafoe , and Kathryn Hahn sat around a coffee table strewn with scripts and bananas.
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Subscribe to John Harwood's Speakeasy podcast on iTunes An avid baseball fan, Brown sat down with me last week at the stadium in Columbus that is home to the AAA farm team for the Cleveland Indians.
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Subscribe to John Harwood's Speakeasy podcast on iTunes They forgot that it was Wall Street greed and overreach that cost hundreds of billions of dollars in retirement savings, cost millions of jobs, caused millions of foreclosures.
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These finger waves are a fantastic excuse to blow the dust off your high school copy of The Great Gatsby, throw on your slip dress and pearls, hit the nearest speakeasy, and party like it's 1920.
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I revived Upstream Foods three years ago, and instead of raising $3 million and opening a brick and mortar in Los Angeles or New York, I decided to keep my speakeasy dinner-style and really small.
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Shouldering open the door, we found an establishment called Tep Bar, whose interior was lined with century-old worn teak and crowded with arty Thais; the ambience lay somewhere between a speakeasy and an opium den.
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When the Omni Louisville opens in March, the 612-room hotel will have several restaurants and bars, including a speakeasy-style spot with a light above the alley entrance switched on when the bar is open.
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On a recent Saturday night, dozens of gay men mostly in their 30s sipped cocktails and mingled upstairs, while downstairs in a speakeasy-themed bar there was a private party of women in 1920s-inspired attire.
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The underground space was discovered during the construction of the pastry shop upstairs, and it turns out that it was once a speakeasy, a bit of history that seems to be turning up often these days.
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Much is made of New York City's "hidden gems," but few are hidden as well or as intentionally as the Last Word, a recently opened speakeasy that doubles as a provocative emblem of change in Astoria.
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THE OFFICE NYC AT THE MANDARIN ORIENTAL NEW YORK The speakeasy-style Chicago bar owned by Grant Achatz, the acclaimed chef of Alinea in Chicago, and his partner, Nick Kokonas, has opened its New York outpost.
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Old Night — you know, the giant octopus at the underground Russian speakeasy — drops this information mid-way through the season and it's an incredibly new twist that isn't really expanded on throughout the rest of the episodes.
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Slated to be sold at the Hideaway Speakeasy stand, the sandwich in question was called "The Swindler," and contains smoked salmon, cucumbers, capers, and cream cheese with fresh dill on pumpernickel—ingredients commonly associated with Jewish delicatessens.
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Sephora Collection's new Mixology Eyeshadow Palette may not be able to whip up a fake speakeasy-quality drink, but it does take everything that's confusing about eyeshadow and break it down into easy-to-digest diagrams — literally.
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The Varnish: An unpretentious speakeasy in the heart of downtown LA. You have to walk through Cole's restaurant to get to this old-timey cocktail haven, so grab a French Dip on your way in or out.
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Each level brought out a different dimension of New Orleans: Guests enjoyed king cake and mimosas on the first floor, a jazz band on the second and a speakeasy-style area with signature cocktails on the third.
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This 200-seat restaurant, owned by Peter Best, who has places in Brooklyn and Atlanta, and Malissa Browne, who has worked for his company, has three sections, including a speakeasy-style Rum Shop for late-night drinks.
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Their new project turns the tired trope of the speakeasy on its head by asking what the Prohibition era was like for Americans abroad—BlackTail takes its inspiration from the grand hotel lounges of nineteen-twenties Havana.
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The Detroit Pistons superstar -- who goes by the rap name Drummxnd -- rocked the stage at the On The Record Speakeasy and Club at the Park MGM on Thursday ... towering over the crowd and all of his hype men.
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In each of photographer Luke Abby's shots, the models are caught in mid-Bacchian revel, luxuriating in GOODWITCH's THC-laden products, which the guests, in turn, were invited to indulge in, speakeasy-style, as they viewed the images.
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This includes the "Magical Congress of the USA (MACUSA)," which the lead character, Newt Scamander, visits; an underground speakeasy "The Blind Pig;" and the "magical apartment of Tina and Queenie Goldstein," other key characters in the new movie.
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On view is a 1962 window shade of flash designs from Tony D'Annessa's tattoo shop on West 48th Street; he could quickly pull it up, as if he were the owner of a Prohibition speakeasy hiding its booze.
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Thailand meets Tokyo at Salon du Japonisant, where an unmarked door opens into a chic speakeasy outfitted with Chesterfield-style couches, low armchairs and three menus: one for whiskey and Calvados, one for sakes, and one for cocktails.
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She and her future husband, sharing rooms and a love of French cuisine, scoured the food stalls and markets and turned their apartment into what she called a speakeasy restaurant making a meager living with meals prepared together.
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While Prohibition is now a century behind us—and we're no longer drinking bathtub hooch—in recent years, there's been a resurgence of the speakeasy, with upscale, covert bars popping up in major cities all over the country.
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Doing so grants entry to Moonshiner, a Prohibition-style speakeasy behind Da Vito pizzeria, as well as No Entry, a plush pink haven of vintage Italian spirits (including Aperols and Camparis from the 270s) beneath Pink Mamma restaurant.
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Interact with Klaxoon activities on Meeting Board, and you may be able to earn your way into the Speakeasy; so keep an eye out for these bad boys throughout the House, and maybe even on the streets of Austin.
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We've got the hack for Art Deco-inspired waves down to two quick steps — they'll be your brand-new go-to for nights at the speakeasy or office drinks (or possibly both, depending on how awesome your job is).
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Google is also adding tours of locations in Fantastic Beasts using Google Street View, allowing fans to virtually visit the Magical Congress of the USA, The Blind Pig speakeasy, and the apartment of some of the films main characters.
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NYE 240 Location: Lincoln Speakeasy Headliners: Special Surprise Guest (Crosstown Rebels/Get Physical), Ricoshei, Lonely Boy, Maheras An intimate, upscale afterhours for rich Burners to sip champagne, eat hors d'oeuvres, and talk about their next idea for an app.
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On Florence Fabricant's must-try list: new projects from the chefs John Fraser and Jonathan Benno, speakeasy-style nooks wedged over, under and around existing restaurants — and maybe that catch-your-own-dinner place Manhattan has been waiting for.
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She seemed embarrassed by the mess of her room—candy wrappers by the bed, clothes on the floor—and explained that she'd been out till four in the morning with friends at a speakeasy on the Bowery called Attaboy.
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These spots conjure that nostalgia for the whole family: The irony that this former Prohibition-era speakeasy, brothel and mobster retreat has morphed into a fabulous family getaway is not lost on its owners, Tereasa Surratt and David Hernandez.
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If you ask the host at Nicky New York Sushi nicely to see the wine cellar, you'll be lead through the restaurant to a wine hallway in the back, then through a hidden submarine door into The Harrison Speakeasy.
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Everything had already been paid for by Waters (he had spent around $2000 total on his Secret Santa gift), and the hunt ultimately led the couple to an underground speakeasy where the gift, a $245 bottle of champagne, was waiting.
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"What is great about all these bars is that they somehow are able to create identities that are special to the nation they are in," said Chong, who is also the founder of Omakase + Appreciate, a speakeasy bar in Kuala Lumpur.
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If you decide to continue the conversation with a Gemini over drinks or dinner, try a fusion restaurant that blends two styles of food or a speakeasy that shakes up cocktails with unorthodox combinations, since Geminis are associated with duality.
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In a former two-story mansion that dates back to 1910, Cartagena's newest cocktail bar, Alquímico, is a step above the average local watering hole, and resembles a Manhattan speakeasy — complete with elevated offerings, built mostly around its house-infused rums.
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This restaurant began its life in the 1880s as a stage coach stop, became a speakeasy during Prohibition (with a brothel next door) and retains a soupçon of secrecy: There's no sign, you have to buzz to be let in.
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His opposite number, played by Logan Marshall-Green of Cinemax's "Quarry," is a Pinkerton strikebreaker whose colorful behavior includes carrying the corpse of a rebellious farmer into the local speakeasy and sitting it at a table, just to send a message.
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Mr. Quagliarini has become a sought-after menu consultant for Italian cocktail bars in Paris, including Grazie (where the drinks list features concoctions like the Speakeasy, a mix of whiskey, Galliano Ristretto coffee liqueur, bitters, sugar and absinthe vapor) and Professore.
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A door on the west side of the building opens to a marble staircase that Groucho Marx, Rudolph Valentino, and Gloria Swanson once descended to dine in the studio commissary, a space that, in 2014, was refurbished into a speakeasy.
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Sister show The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, which streams on Netflix, features plenty of characters rising from the grave, but so far Riverdale has stayed about as grounded a show that made Veronica Lodge (Camila Mendes) a teen speakeasy owner can be.
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The bar owner Sasha Petraske, a pioneer of the current cocktail revival, had a few projects in the works when he died last August at age 42, including a book and a hoped-for third iteration of his trailblazing speakeasy Milk & Honey.
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Under this theory of events, Mr Trump's dramatic tweets bring to mind the owner of a Chicago speakeasy, who while being questioned by G-Men about why so many Mob bosses drink at his establishment, bellows: "FIRE!" and pulls the fire alarm.
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T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), newly crowned King of Wakanda and inheritor of the mantle of Black Panther, has received a tip that a villain he's been chasing will be making a deal in an underground speakeasy in the South Korean port of Busan.
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This tour, pegged to the occasion, takes a look at train station's secrets hiding in plain sight, including an apartment once used as a speakeasy, the so-called whispering arch and the constellations painted in reverse on the ceiling of the main concourse.
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The format, popularized by New York City productions like Sleep No More and San Francisco-based The Speakeasy, places actors with scripted narratives into a living, breathing environment where guests are free to interact with and become a part of the story.
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And while we love a speakeasy as much as the next person, getting dressed to go out can just be so effortful — especially when excellent cocktails are as easily enjoyed at home while wearing athleisure and actually being able to hear your friends.
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Jimmy, who objects the loudest (as always) solves most of the clues, from Dewey Decimal system to explaining what a cypher is to insisting that they break into a family's home, which ends with their arrest and eventual location of the speakeasy.
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Crif Dogs 21686 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 218282 (2138) 21157-2118 Maybe you've been enjoying a cocktail at that no-longer-secret speakeasy hidden inside this hot dog joint, or maybe you're just hungry in the East Village after hours.
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The beauty of New York is that, in the same night, you can nurse a tiki drink in a replica of the Golden Girls' living room, then make like Clark Kent and sneak into a speakeasy through a hot dog joint's phone booth.
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Hard to remember, because while she was doing all that heartfelt warbling, the patrons in the speakeasy where she was performing were bouncing around the room like tennis balls, or rolling around on skates, or contorting themselves into peculiar poses on their tables.
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When Amanda Foreman and Lucas Wittmann founded House of SpeakEasy, the organization behind their literary cabaret series, "Seriously Entertaining," they wanted to break from the format of typical bookstore readings and hark back to the performative styles of authors like Dickens and Twain.
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With exceptional design, a prime location, and comfortable accommodations, you'll be happy with your stay even if you don't frequent the excellent eateries, but I'd suggest at least having a cocktail at the speakeasy inside Benno when it's open (Tuesday-Saturday nights).
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A 3373-seat omakase sushi bar (with tastings at $165 and $195) and a Japanese-style cocktail bar featuring drinks made with Japanese whiskeys, gins, vodkas and ingredients like shiso share the intimate speakeasy-style space in the Canal Arcade in Manhattan's Chinatown.
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Come early for a drink at Seymour's, a speakeasy-style shrine to vintage decor and craft cocktails, tucked inside the steakhouse; save room at the end of your evening for an order of melty beignets served with a trio of sweet sauces.
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Mr. Moss started out as the neighborhood curmudgeon of the internet, writing his first post, "oh Chumley's we love you get up," in 2007 when the Greenwich Village restaurant and onetime speakeasy closed after part of a wall and a chimney collapsed.
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Location: 48 W. 17th St. (Manhattan)Cocktail price range: $17 to $18"It's a quiet speakeasy atmosphere where the staff are the professional mixologists who serve fantastic cocktails," Alan Levy, a Warburg agent with 12 years of experience, said of Raines Law Room.
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This tour, pegged to the occasion, takes a look at train station's secrets hiding in plain sight: an apartment once used as a speakeasy, the so-called whispering arch and the constellations painted in reverse on the ceiling of the main concourse, for example.
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The inside of each guest room (which comes complete with a soaking tub) is a minimalist's dream, while outside, the architects somehow managed to find enough space for a speakeasy bar, a pool, a gym, and a seriously delicious peking duck and dim sum restaurant.
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He had been working as a stand-up comedian; participating in rogue pop-ups (like the Night Heron Speakeasy, a sort-of bar that ran for seven weeks in an abandoned water tower in Chelsea) and hoping to do the same in San Francisco.
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PepsiCo also took advantage of prime speakeasy real estate to show off tasty new drinks like Mountain Dew Black Label and Stubborn — their fresh line of premium, flavored sodas, available in six unexpected flavors — along with some classics like Naked Pressed Juices and Aquafina.
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When he ventured out of Trump Tower for a meal with his family on Tuesday, President-elect Donald J. Trump went to the "217" Club, a former speakeasy on West 221nd Street where cast-iron lawn jockeys line the balcony above the front door.
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As well as this, a new array of snacks and light meals are on offer which have been specifically designed by chef Neil Perry to be eaten in the expanded speakeasy-style lounge, complete with deep green leather couches, ambient lighting, and wood-panelled walls.
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It's a sort of parsed back, baroque-pop (which sounds like an oxymoron really) and then at two minutes 55 the song turns on its head and CuckooLander comes off like a soulful 60s singer singing her heart out in some smoky speakeasy basement.
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It was part of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s plan to revive New York during the Great Depression: by building a "city within a city" that would provide jobs for New Yorkers and convert a neighborhood known as "the speakeasy belt" into a commercial hub.
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It was part of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s plan to revive New York after the Great Depression by building a "city within a city" that would provide jobs for New Yorkers and convert a neighborhood known as "the speakeasy belt" into a commercial hub.
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"One of the reasons that I comfortably won the second time is (voters) saw that I worked very hard, paid attention to them, to Minnesotans, and paid attention to policy and did my work," Franken said in our Speakeasy interview at the Minnesota State Fair.
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When it ended, the subterranean space at the Beekman became the "Speakeasy," and those who didn't have an early call the next morning stayed on, dancing to the music of a jazz band, Billy and the Rock Bottoms, and a D.J. set by Mr. Marshall.
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The West Village bar was a Depression-era speakeasy; a rough-and-tumble watering hole for generations of writers, including Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac and Norman Mailer; a divey hangout for N.Y.U. kids; and a bar tended and patronized by the firefighters of Ladder 5.
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The more intimate, speakeasy-style component, the Office, will move into the adjacent, somewhat hidden MObar space, now under construction, and unlike the branch in Chicago, which is in the lower level of the Aviary, the new, 40-seat location will have stunning views.
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Soon after, he shepherded a piece of legislation that would repeal New York's nearly-century-old cabaret law, which forbid dancing in bars without a cabaret license—a vestige from the anti-speakeasy era, often used by mayor Rudy Giuliani to harass bars that received noise complaints.
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The ways in which it tries to foster "community" go beyond working, too: WeWork opened a gym, is trying to make co-living a thing, turned a Wall Street mailroom into a public speakeasy bar, and recently opened a school inside its New York City headquarters.
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"It's a risk, but we're going to succeed," she said, pointing proudly to the complex's amenities: colorful common areas evoking Google's headquarters; a gym and adjacent soccer fields and tennis courts; and a carnotzet, or traditional Swiss-French wine cellar with the air of a speakeasy.
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Think of the 10 soon-to-open rooms above Koreatown's Walker Inn — a secret bar serving omakase-style drinks at the back of the Normandie Club, an Americana-themed cocktail spot fronting the recently revamped 1920s landmark Normandie Hotel — as the speakeasy of a B&B.
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In Dublin, for example, the Psychedelic Society of Ireland is holding a film screening in a park; in Mexico City, Students for a Sensible Drug Policy will present a talk at a cultural center; and in Brooklyn, Psymposia is throwing a psychedelic storytelling event at speakeasy.
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Mr. Bandler and Mr. Suric walked over water-stained floorboards and into a catering room known as Pete's Room, whose walls were gutted to the original wood lath and plaster dating back to before the restaurant opened in three adjacent townhouses in 1929 as a speakeasy.
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Despite the law, it seemed everybody in the country, from former President Warren G. Harding to the local clergy, continued to imbibe, and the resilience of the speakeasy proved the nation's resolve to do just that, while bringing people from all different backgrounds together in the process.
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Uptown isn't the fanciest of neighborhoods, but what it lacks in bougie bullshit it more than makes up for in authentic Vietnamese cuisine, sprawling and cheap vintage apartments, former speakeasy jazz clubs, and close proximity to both the CTA Red Line and some of the city's best beaches.
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This as close as you get to a ticket to the Signal Room, an old wooden tower perched atop Yerba Buena Island (the natural, hilly landmass from which Treasure Island extends), temporarily transformed into a speakeasy-cum-clubhouse but destined to be demolished in about a month's time.
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Midnight Cowboy: The original Austin speakeasy, Midnight Cowboy still remains a great find that's hidden behind an unmarked door on 6th St. Originally a massage parlor called Midnight Cowboy Modeling, the bartenders maintain that special "by-hand" approach by mixing your drinks on a cart at your table.
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In the low light of wood-panelled speakeasy Senator Saloon in central Shanghai, bartenders Elephant Zhang and Jeremy Yang told Reuters they expected consumers to shake off any price hikes as they mixed classic whiskey cocktails like Manhattans and Sazeracs to the sound of Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw.
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Tucked away in the Dupont Circle speakeasy The Sheppard, the intimate affair had a small group of Washingtonians rubbing elbows with Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo and his wife, Candace Crawford-Romo, along with "Glee" actor Matthew Morrison and wife, Renee, and singer JC Chasez of NSYNC fame.
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Constructing a speakeasy-style bar lined with bottles of locally distilled moonshine, Huang commemorated the life of Song Yang, a Chinese immigrant sex worker who fell to her death from a rooftop in Flushing, Queens in 2017 during a police raid on the massage parlor where she worked.
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In fact, almost all the drinks that Ferris's bartenders stir up in about four square feet of space are smarter and more bracing than what typically comes out of a full-size bar, and often they are poured into vintage etched glasses that any neo-speakeasy would envy.
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D.T.K.: Live At The Speakeasy is probably the most infamous; it was a great way to clear the room at the end of a party in college, between the burning lava guitar riffs and the heckles back at the crowd in a grating, unmistakably Queens accent that Johnny never lost.
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He was playing three roles at virtually the same time: Running Gag, a character in "Speakeasy," a ballet staged by his company, Dancers, at the Auditorium Theater, and Adam and Cain in the Lyric Opera of Chicago's production of "Paradise Lost" at the Civic Opera House, about a mile away.
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Bertolt Brecht's "Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui," at the Donmar Warehouse in a new version from the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Bruce Norris ("Clybourne Park"), looks and sounds in Simon Evans's lively if self-defeating production as if it were set in a Chicago speakeasy in the 1930s.
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The timed seatings are an idea hatched by David Bouhadana (who has come under criticism for speaking English with a Japanese accent and will not be working behind the counter at either spot) and Simple Venue, a company that sets up and runs dining nooks in somewhat-hidden "speakeasy" spaces.
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They include every recognizable variety of drinking den, from hidden joints like the Harrison Speakeasy, to restaurant bars such as Casa Cavia; from historical standard bearers like Los Galgos, to the theme-park extravaganza Uptown, whose entrance exactly resembles a New York subway station — tile walls, turnstiles, sliding train doors and all.
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Purists might dispute the idiosyncratic unfolding of kaiseki at the haute Odo, half-hidden like a speakeasy at the back of a cocktail bar in the Flatiron district of Manhattan, where Hiroki Odo has been known to forsake tempura in the agemono (fried) course in favor of a French croquette heavy with béchamel.
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Indeed, Colonel Lamb, who made a successful living as a wine merchant, might have wondered, with a touch of trepidation, whether it's a good thing to be "speakeasy meets steampunk," as the bar bills itself, and how, exactly, one comes up with a cocktail named Bad Judgment (Jameson, cornflower syrup, egg white).
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For nearly a century, the space in a West Village brownstone was many things — a Prohibition-era speakeasy, a family-owned Italian restaurant, a club with a celebrity clientele — but it was never known for the prowess of its kitchen, which at less than 200 square feet is minuscule even by New York standards.
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After a few summers spent selling plants to her neighbors from the sidewalk outside her Brooklyn apartment, she converted her spare bedroom into an appointment-only boutique — unofficially called "the plant speakeasy" — that offered a curated selection of plants potted in ceramic containers made by Osofsky and her friends or sourced from vintage dealers.
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"And when I got back, no one was doing cocktails in this way," It's a menu filled with modern interpretations of speakeasy-era drinks and a few tongue-in-cheek nods to the beachy surroundings, like their take on a Mai Tai (Angostura 5-year and Silver rum, lime juice, dry curaçao, house almond orgeat, and mint).
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As most things occur in Panamá, Maestracci's business partners knew the former owner, and after eight months of passing special permissions and receiving the appropriate licenses, Hooch moved in, keeping the black and white tiled floor original to the motorcycle shop, but adding brick walls, corrugated copper, regalia, and dim lights to evoke a classic speakeasy ambiance.
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I wandered the set, stepping into familiar high school hallways — all moody blues and faded golds — and teen-dream bedrooms and then into some new locations, a speakeasy-style hangout and a decrepit bunker where the parents, now played by back-in-the-day heartthrobs like Mädchen Amick, Luke Perry and Molly Ringwald, used to hang out.
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At the top of this jungly street, I make my way to a side street where I find my favorite whiskey bar in the city, an unsigned speakeasy called Hailiang buried behind a small garden with a secret door that opens into a 12-seat Japanese cave filled with hundreds of bottles of rare Scotch and bourbon.
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Opening in an apartment block surely adds to the bar's appeal in a city awash in "hidden" speakeasy-style cocktail joints (such as Mimi e Coco, tucked behind a pizza place on Fangjia Hutong), but was also borne of practical concerns: "With China's entrepreneurial wave, a lot of the post-23s generation opens their first businesses in low-rent apartment buildings," Zhao says.
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He cited the Red Rooster, a bustling restaurant on Malcolm X Boulevard near 125th Street, named in honor of a former speakeasy that attracted African-American luminaries like Nat King Cole, the pianist and singer, and Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the civil rights leader who served 26 years in Congress (and for whom the stretch of Seventh Avenue above Central Park is named).
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There aren't any decent pictures of the mysterious underground piano bar of Glastonbury – a chaotic Irish speakeasy which you must both bribe, lie, betray and then crawl on your knees just to get in – so here is the video for Jamiroquai's "Deeper Underground" to get you in the mood for some subterranean hedonism, and also to remind you how far CGI has come.
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I am reminded of how easy it was to drink during Prohibition every time I go to the hotel in New Hampshire that hosted the Bretton Woods Conference, which created the modern international monetary system after World War II. The hotel, now known as the Omni Mount Washington Resort, boasts a basement speakeasy called The Cave that served illegal liquor during Prohibition.
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Prosecutors said Mr. Hunter dipped into campaign coffers to pay for everything from Uber rides back to his office from the homes of his lovers to a $905 bar tab at a hotel, to a date at a Jack Ingram concert — at which Mr. Hunter is accused of spending $121 on beer, nachos and chicken wings — and a date at a "speakeasy-style bar" in Washington.
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Inside, the club looks far less like the Southern boudoir of the movie, and a little more like the kind of speakeasy-concept whiskey bar you'd find next to a strip-mall Chipotle: The floors are faux reclaimed wood; the seats are a mish-mash of nailhead-studded club chairs and couches, and there are a lot of waiters milling around inexplicably wearing both suspenders and belts at the same time.
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Whether on barstools in the hyper-exclusive "speakeasy" clubs, or standing in a three-hour queue for a table at Rose's Luxury, or tittering like adolescents at the celebrities who annually grace the White House Correspondents' Dinner with their godly presence, or gazing as one into the Narcissus pool of Twitter feeds, the Washington elite with its undisguised self-absorption provides a bounty for "Veep" and other TV satires.
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Beasts' CGI menagerie tends to look a bit cheap and garish, but at its best — as with a golden, six-winged thunderbird that becomes the movie's most majestic element, or in a show-offy speakeasy sequence that feels like a lost sidebar from Who Framed Roger Rabbit — the film brings back the anything-can-happen fantasy element and the sense of scope and surprise that initially made the Harry Potter stories compelling.
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With the scent of BBQ floating through the leafy outdoor patio, guests alternated between munching on burgers and dancing to groovy, Latin-influenced dance music like reggaeton and dancehall from Mexican DJs Esamipau and Puma, and New York's Bearcat, Riobamba and HD. When the festivities wrapped up at 10PM, those left standing headed over to speakeasy-esque nightclub Crom for an afterparty called Asphyxia, where NYC transplants Zakmatic and Nightcoregirl blasted standout sets of screeching hardstyle and gabber.
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"If this makes men listen up and maybe want to experiment with makeup and this is their gateway, then I'm fine with it." that warpaint for men ad is bad in a Hip Musky Fashy-Fade Gentrified Speakeasy waybut the idea the makeup can be socially normalized for men is inherently a good thing War Paint has not responded to the hoopla beyond that comment on Twitter, and it seems to be deleting comments on its Instagram.
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Talking about all things bling were: The self-described "fashion addict" Jamal Damon, a photographer and general manager at the Blind Barber, a barber shop/speakeasy with two Los Angeles locations; Ramya Giangola, a recent transplant from New York, who is co-founder of Gogoluxe, a fashion, retail and trend consultancy; The stylist and textile artist Daniel Hernandez, who has spent the past 25 years working in Los Angeles and London; Whitney Leigh Morris, a small-space lifestyle consultant, who blogs about sustainable living in her "Tiny Canal Cottage" in Venice Beach, Calif.
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