BlackTail
New York City, USA
Featuring: Will Pasturnak
No. 41 | World’s 50 Best Bars 2018
Best New American Cocktail Bar | TOTC Spirited Awards 2017
Pop-up at
401a Rue Saint-Vincent
MONDAY, MAY 20th
6 - 10 pm
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ABOUT THE BAR
Situated as a pop-up at the Kimpton Hotel Eventi in Manhattan, BlackTail transports its clientele to Prohibition-era Cuba – a time when the greatest American bars upped roots and moved from the ‘dry’ States to the ‘wet’ island of Cuba. Prohibition commenced in 1919 and with it dawned an age of 'Liquor Tourism'. In 1922 the Aeromarine Company commenced the first flying boat service from their Hudson River terminal.
Nicknamed the 'Hi-Ball Express', this fleet of flying limousines was tricked out with wicker chairs and mahogany veneers, each carrying around a dozen wealthy passengers via Atlantic City, Beaufort, South Carolina, Miami and Key West en-route to sunny Havana.
In 1922 the fleet was christened the 'Black Tail Fleet'. And over 90 years later, a new bar name was born.
