cocktail lounge

The entrance to this moody cocktail lounge is located through a bookcase in a nondescript storefront in downtown.

“If you come here, then you will help shape the programming. We are thinking about it like a working-class cocktail lounge.”

“It was,” he recalls, “a different kind of weekend, instead of getting drunk in a cocktail lounge.”

Mark’s younger brother, Dan, became the cocktail lounge pianist Dan Ruskin, who for years manned the piano at Washington’s Mayflower Hotel.

He later inserted political wisecracks into his patter at the Carroll Arms cocktail lounge, near the Capitol.