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Zodiac indicators and the significance of us assign to them generally is a polarizing. To some, whether or not you’re a Sagittarius or a Capricorn could make or break a relationship—or at the very least predict behavioral traits. To others, it’s all just a little too “woo woo.” Chris McCord and Alex Sher of Bovino After Darkish—an underground prix fixe eating expertise at Lee + White—determined to discover the New Age perspective with a cocktail bar in Adair Park. Referred to as seventh Home, it serves a zodiac-themed cocktail tasting menu three nights per week.
A partnership with the Vine Wine Membership subsequent door, it explores pure components like air, water, hearth, and earth via foods and drinks. Named for the astrological home of affection, friendship, and partnership, it affords a rotating tasting menu the place every month focuses on a brand new zodiac signal and the aspect it represents.
“It actually struck a chord with us,” normal supervisor and beverage director Trent Austin explains. “It’s what we imagine in.”
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He and Sher launched the expertise in late January with a easy objective: take the creativity and ambiance of Bovino and translate it right into a cocktail format. Every $84 reservation features a welcome cocktail, adopted by a three-drink tasting and three small plates—all impressed by the present zodiac season. McCord designs the meals to enhance every beverage, with all meals served without delay so friends can get pleasure from it at their very own tempo.
“It’s a tasting in your time, not ours,” Austin says.
For Taurus season, a bull-themed menu leans into earthy flavors and traditional drinks. “Tauruses get pleasure from easy pleasures however are considerably hostile to vary, so we based mostly cocktails on very well-known classics,” he says.
One instance is the Damaged Plates, a riff on a gin martini infused with roasted ramps, inexperienced strawberry tops, and strawberry bitters, topped with inexperienced garlic oil. It’s each delicate and boozy. Sluggish Experience is one other cocktail, this one comprised of duck fat-washed rye whiskey, blueberry-infused cognac, white port, cynar, and tobacco bitters.
As for meals, search for fried lamb ribs with cherry-tamarind barbecue sauce, roasted coconut, mint, and cilantro, chilly oysters with kimchi beurre blanc and wasabi tobiko, and Basic Tso’s-style lion’s mane mushrooms.
Courtesy of Alex Sher and Catalina Selvagn
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Reservation can be found on Resy, however walk-ins are welcome, particularly on Wednesdays when the complete tasting will not be obtainable. Optionally available add-ons embody wine, dessert, and caviar.
The house seats 24, together with eight on the horseshoe-shaped bar. Constellations on the partitions, velvet seating, and mushy glowing stars above give the room a dreamy, mid-century lounge really feel. Notes of blue, silver, and copper emit heat.
Austin says the crew hopes to stay within the house for at the very least two years. “We need to deliver eyes and a focus to the West Finish,” he says. “There’s a lot expertise right here. It’s a fantastic group.”
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