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"Elevate your cocktail adventure at Understory, the resident cocktail bar inside The SkyDeck at Del Mar Highlands Town Center. The name comes from one of the four layers of a rainforest — the understory is the dark, still, humid area located between the main forest canopy and the forest floor — and is reflected in the tall, industrially-inspired metal trees that surround the bar. The innovative creations on Understory’s cocktail menu evoke the wide variety of birds, butterflies and other animals that live in that ecosystem, like the Satanic Nightjar, a bird represented in cocktail form by with Ford’s London Dry Gin, turmeric, ginger, chili, tamarind, lemongrass, mint, and club bubbles." - Mary Beth Abate