#prohibition-style

#prohibition-style

The maitake mushroom tempura appetizer, priced at $18, features meaty hen-of-the-woods mushrooms coated in a tempura batter, served with a whipped crème fraîche dipping sauce.

The show curtain, emblazoned with a stylized, vaudevillian flair, evokes not just the Jazz Age world of the musical but the idea of performance itself—a party that is also a show, populated by people who are always acting, even when they're unraveling.

The Red Fox is an Italian-American restaurant and lounge oozing with old-school charm. The eatery was opened by the All Day Hospitality Group in 2024, but you'd never guess that from its retro-inspired interior. The dimly-lit space is filled with remnants from a much more luxurious past, like fringed lampshades, crimson leather booths, and wood-paneled walls.

Wives, he wrote, "have left the housework undone and husbands have slipped away from their jobs to watch." The subject of all this excitement was an unlikely one: Congressional hearings. Hours and hours of them. What made it all so fascinating was the topic: Organized crime. Gangsters. Or, as Americans were learning right there on TV, something called "the Mafia."

I just found the funny in it, of how you can take an 87-year-old Albany landmark and reduce it down to a drug-infested strip joint in El Cerrito. All the information is wrong.

Set during the Roaring Twenties, the show takes place at the Manhattan apartment of Queenie (Jasmine Amy Rogers), a vaudeville bombshell, and her man of the moment, the comedian Burrs (Jordan Donica). Guests include a former prizefighter, a pair of piano-playing twins, an "ambisextrous" playboy, a stage diva past her prime, and someone's kid sister from Poughkeepsie.

The New York City restaurant and bar where Humphrey Bogart once held court closed in December 2020. A casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 21 Club enjoyed a remarkable 90-year run before it shuttered for good. During its mid-20th-century heyday, the iconic Manhattan venue was one of film legend Humphrey Bogart's favorite haunts.

Prohibition was the nationwide ban on the sale, manufacturing, and transportation of alcohol in the United States from 1920 to 1933. During this period, gangsters and bootleggers produced illegal booze, smuggled it across state lines, and ran secret bars throughout the country. While some bars were raided by the authorities, others thrived as a result of deals with the police or extensive protective measures.

When the gin and tonic glasses are drained, and the crab tostada and chimichurri-dressed steak plates are cleared from the table, customers can snake through the kitchen and descend candlelit stairs to an entirely different experience: Laberinto, an underground speakeasy. The theme at Laberinto, which means labyrinth in Spanish, is escapism - a micro vacation after the meal has ended where guests chat, flip through vinyl records, and sip Mexican spirits and liqueurs layered with notes of oregano, sage, and palo santo.

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One of the oldest recipes for a classic, pre-Prohibition whiskey sour calls for a simple mixture of sugar, lemon juice, and whiskey. While some renditions swap simple syrup in place of sugar or add an egg white to the recipe to give it a frothy body, another variation on this famous favorite, widely known today as the New York sour, includes a float of red wine.