A new wave of bars and clubs offer debauchery and exclusivity but the illicit, Prohibition-feel of spots during lockdown is gone.
“These places are cute, but they aren’t the real thing,” Torie, 29, who works in business development for an engineering and architecture firm, told The Post.
“Inside, the dance floor was packed, and they would play the best music until 4 or 5 in the morning.” For instance, two new bars — UnPublished at Midtown’s Serafina in the Sky and Foxtail at the Arlo Soho — are hidden behind velvet curtains. The Cactus Shop, a Mexican cantina in Williamsburg, is disguised as a shop for plants, while theDuring the day, the Cactus Shop, a speakeasy, is a real plant nursery called Tula Plants & Design.“The speakeasy thing is so overdone now,” said Rachel, 33, who lives on the Upper East Side and also declined to give her last name.
“During the pandemic, when people wanted to go out and it was illegal to gather, it probably revived that old prohibition culture of sneaking around and knocking on doors and speaking passwords to get into the bar,” said Ed Yau, owner of One19, a speakeasy that opened on the Lower East Side this past Halloween.He said he turned his bar, which specializes in regional Italian wines, into a speakeasy because it was located behind a grocery store and deli.
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