Ready: lightning round.
We’ll throw some words at you and see what pops into your head.
Jesuits. Furniture. Coal. Eleanor Roosevelt.
Right, you’re thinking about dinner.
That’s a little weird, but we know where you should look: Blagden Alley Social Club, a new, occasional supper club just launched by the owners of GoodWood furniture shop, taking reservations now for January 20.
First, a word about your alley. This is the one where Rogue 24 resides, the one Mrs. Roosevelt called the most despicable alley in America.
It’s been cleaned up. But it’s still a little dark and disorienting. You’ll want to look for the “Huntress Coal Oil” sign and head in through the garage door below.
Inside, it’s like a particularly sophisticated episode of American Pickers. You’ll ask for a cocktail, then sit on the art deco couches or just absorb the boxing-themed mural, the vintage safe, the bowl of disembodied presidential heads (we’ll just let that hang there for a bit).
Then it’s on to the 14-person communal table for dinner. Your chef: he spends his week cooking for 12 Jesuit priests. Your menu: it changes, but expect shrimp and grits and root beer cake.
The conversation: well, that’s free-form, so get ready to regale the group with an entirely made-up story.
You and Pacino hanging out in Singapore. That should work.
We’ll throw some words at you and see what pops into your head.
Jesuits. Furniture. Coal. Eleanor Roosevelt.
Right, you’re thinking about dinner.
That’s a little weird, but we know where you should look: Blagden Alley Social Club, a new, occasional supper club just launched by the owners of GoodWood furniture shop, taking reservations now for January 20.
First, a word about your alley. This is the one where Rogue 24 resides, the one Mrs. Roosevelt called the most despicable alley in America.
It’s been cleaned up. But it’s still a little dark and disorienting. You’ll want to look for the “Huntress Coal Oil” sign and head in through the garage door below.
Inside, it’s like a particularly sophisticated episode of American Pickers. You’ll ask for a cocktail, then sit on the art deco couches or just absorb the boxing-themed mural, the vintage safe, the bowl of disembodied presidential heads (we’ll just let that hang there for a bit).
Then it’s on to the 14-person communal table for dinner. Your chef: he spends his week cooking for 12 Jesuit priests. Your menu: it changes, but expect shrimp and grits and root beer cake.
The conversation: well, that’s free-form, so get ready to regale the group with an entirely made-up story.
You and Pacino hanging out in Singapore. That should work.
Note:
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