speakeasy
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Donatell’s gas station has become an informal lobby for those waiting for a seat in the speakeasy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
Hood, Ling and other entrepreneurs paved the way for places like Laowai—a speakeasy inspired by Prohibition-era Shanghai.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025
I was renting from this guy, kind of a character on the scene, and he would set up these speakeasy acoustic shows above this jeans store on Abbot Kinney called the Stronghold.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025
Then came the mid-aughts cocktail renaissance — speakeasy revival, vest-wearing bartenders, the return of obscure bitters, the emergence of the cocktail-as-craft.
From Salon • Nov. 30, 2025
The priest said, True for you, Tom, decent man that you are, fine man that never set foot inside a speakeasy.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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