Alcademics

As of last night, The Valley Club [website][instagram] is soft opened. I do not know the hours going forward, nor if they’ll be taking reservations. It is located upstairs from Corzetti in the Hotel G on Mason Street, right around the corner from the temporary entrance to the St. Francis (or, if you must, the new Nintendo store). It is the former Benjamin Cooper space. 

The bar is from Mitch Lagneaux, who has worked at several bars including Brass Tacks previously. This is his first ownership.  

The space has been transformed into a sexy sexy lounge with lots of mirrors that feels like peak 1980s glamour without being retro. The menu seals that deal: it looks like a high-gloss fashion magazine. One page has a loveline advertising their Chocolate-Raspberry Negroni. The page for the Nightvision (peach moscato, gin, shiso, absinthe, and lemon) - which is EXTREMELY MY JAM- has silvery cassette tape. 

The “side quests” are batched shooters to make things quick and easy, and there are a generous three NA drinks on the menu. 

My pictures are lousy but here they are: 

And here is the menu: