The bartenders will make recommendations from the menu based on your tastes, or just mix up the drink of your choice. Photo / Instagram
1422 Larimer St, Denver, Colorado.
Name: Green Russell, named after 1850s gold miner William Green Russell.
The Address: Tucked away down a discreet staircase in Larimer Square, the most historic block in Denver.
The vibe: This speakeasy bar is accessed through a pie shop and is underground, so there were
no windows. It's very dimly lit and hung with almost ghostly green fairy lights. The seating is old fashioned – leather-bound armchairs and the like. There's a mixture of tools and ornately-framed mirrors hanging on the wall. The crowd is young to middle-aged. Most of the people I saw would have been somewhere in their 30s.
The chat: Our bartender was a young waistcoat-and-tie-wearing man named Drew. Each of our group decided to pick the bartender's choice from the drinks menu, asking Drew to make something special with our spirit of choice. He was happy to oblige and took care to ask us which flavours we liked.
