Cocktail, cocktail, cocktail, cocktail......
Instead of offering overpriced pours for largely captive hotel guests, the new bars generate solid buzz among locals by upgrading the hotel cocktail and dining experience in a city known for its ambitious culinary scene and cocktail culture.
AMENITIES Not to be overly dramatic, but this is the Teatro's tragic flaw: Guests keen on luxuriating in a spa, working out in a gym, sipping a cocktail or dining in style will be disappointed.
Check into a room overlooking the place Vendome and then run down to the Hemingway Bar for a cocktail before dining at L'Espadon.
The New York branch of Venice's famous Harry's Bar, Harry Cipriani brings the same concept of fresh Bellinis (Cipriani's delicious signature peach and champagne cocktail), cramped dining, predictable food and whopping bills, but people still flock to it.
Like a futuristic lazy susan for your living room, this superswank coffee table not only swivels for effortless hors d'oeuvre passing, but allows TV-transfixed diners to adjust the height of one of its two surface areas from cocktail to dining height.
We learn how to add whisky into a cocktail for dining and then we get tips on which dishes go best with our libations.
The clu... gastro-lounge, has removable hard vinyl covers that fit over cocktail tables for dining.
For an even more intriguing atmosphere, Ketumbar, Via Galvani, 24, phone and fax 39-066) 573 05338, has turned its series of dimly lighted cocktail lounges and dining rooms into a Gothic-cum-Asia fantasia.
First-floor lounge for cocktails and light dining.
