UnderTow, Platform 18, and 36 Below Are Phoenix Cocktail Bars With a Big Touch of Theater | Bon Appétit
"Set inside a 1927 Pullman-style train car, this period-immersive bar encourages dressed-up, theatrical nights—flappers and mobster-style attire are common—and uses a back-of-menu story to thread cocktails into a larger narrative, including bootlegging-era tales and characters like Madame Emilie. The drink program is encyclopedic and historically playful: try Hot Pants (a bright-pink, 1970s-style tequila, grapefruit, and mint cocktail), house-made boozy ice creams like the Grasshopper, the Single Track South (Ojo de Tigre mezcal, Heirloom Genepy, coconut liqueur, grapefruit liqueur and oil, rimmed with fennel pollen salt), the Gentleman's Heist (an Old-Fashioned–inspired mix of cognac, sherry, passionflower, and elderflower with a lit-rosemary garnish), or the showstopping Madame Emilie's Effects (a $57 theatrical presentation of vintage rum and rhum agricole poured tableside from a smoke-filled wooden chest over a giant ice cube). The bartenders frame each service as storytelling, and reservations, dressing up, and planning for a longer, sit-down experience are recommended." - ByLanee Lee
