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Businiess name:
Apotheke
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Review by:
citysearch c.
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My first experience at Apotheke about a year ago was on a weeknight. It was a lot of fun trying to locate this speakeasy since it’s unsuspectingly placed behind a Chinese restaurant with a yellow sign on a little narrow alleyway called Doyer St in Chinatown.
There were no lines then and very few seem to know of this establishment at that time, which made it pretty special. Since I’m a highly imaginative individual, I love concept bars, and totally dig the whole old world apothecary theme with bartenders dressed in lab coats, spirits in experimental glass tubes and cylinders, an entire cocktail menu list divided into inventive sections such as: Health & Beauty, Stress Relievers, Pain Killers, Aphrodisiacs, Stimulants, Pharmaceuticals, Euphoric Enhancers and Therapeutic Treatments. I also loved the vintage furniture, especially the old sugar cane press near the bathroom! We laid back on one of the velvet thrones and sipped the night away to quiet jazz.
Fast forward a year later, Apotheke resembles a club-type lounge with velvet ropes and a line of hopefuls backed up about 30 minutes at minimum on a good weekend night. The doorman, James has this totally weird method of picking and choosing which crowd he lets skip the queue to go right in, which obviously pisses some folks off. But alas, we were handpicked and were able to join in the crowd that was already dancing to the latest hip-hop (?) tunes. A lot different from what I remembered in terms of atmosphere and crowd; I still liked the cocktails and concept though. After the owner's homemade Absinthe made its round twice, along with numerous other elixirs and prescriptions, I no longer cared about how obnoxious the line/bouncer was or this place has turned out to be slightly grungier, but had a great time with the fun group I was with. I will still return to Apotheke despite its decline … (maybe as an off-meatpacking club-lounge and IF there is no line) just don’t expect it to be a Raines Law Room or Little Branch.
Pros: Unique apothecary concept, good cocktails, decor
Cons: Obnoxious door policy and rude doorman
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