This past Saturday night - being the Hipster that I am - I decided to check out Green Russell, a speakeasy located right on Denver's ultra-hip Larimer Square. I've been meaning to stop by there for the past 10 or 12 years now, but as Regular Blog Reader's know, I have quite a tight schedule these days. In any case, I went down the stairs and down a hallway, and told the hostess I was just there to have a beer at the bar. I sat down, ordered a beer, and was highly underwhelmed by the place. I asked the bartender if the place wasn't supposed to be like a speakeasy, and he told me the speakeasy was in a different area and I needed to talk to the hostess. I got up, talked to the hostess, and she lead me through a door marked "Kitchen" into a very dark and crowded bar that indeed looked like a speakeasy. It was a really nice, lively place, and I will definitely come back. Visiting this bar reminded me of another speakeasy I went to down in Deerfield Beach, Florida called Cap's Place. It is located on an island in the Intercoastal Waterway. You have to take a boat to get there, and it truly was once a speakeasy. According to a travel guidebook, a chatty bartender told the travel writer that John F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill, and Marilyn Monroe have all dined there, but not at the same time.
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