Texas / Austin
The Roosevelt Room
A three-room den built like a turn-of-the-century social club, with a menu organized by classic cocktail families rather than flavors.
Getting in
Front door, dress code enforced after 10pm.
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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The Gear Room
Drink like The Roosevelt Room 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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