The Violet Hour, a speakeasy styled lounge in Chicago with no sign, has been pushing the envelope in creative drink mixing since it opened in 2005. Toby Maloney, the Violet Hour's "Head Intoxocologist", had no problem posting on a Chicago food forum and
sharing some of the drink recipes that have made his bar one of the most exciting in the country.
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posted by AceRock
on Jan 7, 2010 -
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"You'll have heard how the city once ended in fire, and around these parts, it threatens to end in ice every few years or so. But once, not too long ago,
Chicago flirted with ending in water, an entirely preventable man-made inundation that
few saw but everybody felt – a two-billion-dollar sucker punch tsunami that weighed in among the dozen most costly floods in American history."
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posted by AceRock
on Oct 15, 2009 -
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