Already pegged as the "Best Bar in America," now Brewer's Art has been highlighted as part of the retro-revival trend sweeping the nation.
"I'll wager you two bits your bartender's wearing muttonchops and a waistcoat. If not you should ask for your money back, order your Sazerac elsewhere.
A decade into the 21st century, much of the populace seems to believe it's the late 19th to mid-20th. Look around: at the schoolhouse lamps and Edison bulbs illuminating so many trendy haunts; at the grandmotherly comfort food we're ordering for dinner; at our unquenchable thirst for arcane cocktails. Some nights it's like the whole nation's been doused in rye whiskey and sepia ink. Bamboo sprouts in Aalto vases give way to daisies in rusted tomato cans; aluminum Navy chairs to scuffed bentwoods. Rough is the new sleek, aged the new new."
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