Washington / Seattle
Rob Roy
A neighborhood cocktail bar that has trained half of Seattle's current bartenders, still pouring a Penicillin that started the local trend.
Getting in
Street door, expect a wait after 9pm.
Order this
Penicillin
Your passport
Prohibition Original rooms like this one are catalogued across the trail — see every prohibition original bar.
Keep the night going
Nearest doors
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A narrow room with one of the largest spirits collections on the continent and a staff that can find you a whiskey from any decade you name.
The Gear Room
Drink like Rob Roy at home
The Savoy Cocktail Book
Harry Craddock's 1930 compendium, written while America was dry and London was not.
Imbibe! — David Wondrich
The best history of the American bar before Prohibition closed it. Jerry Thomas as protagonist.
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
How a country talked itself into the dry years, and how it climbed back out.
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