{"id":35,"date":"2016-02-09T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.citywalkerapp.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2017-09-12T12:38:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T12:38:16","slug":"dont-call-this-new-basement-bar-a-speakeasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/dont-call-this-new-basement-bar-a-speakeasy\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Call This New Basement Bar a Speakeasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When\u00a0<strong>The Armory<\/strong>\u00a0opens below\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rebelliondc.com\/menu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rebellion<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on Feb. 17, it aims to be more sophisticated than its wing-slinging, bourbon-guzzling parent bar upstairs. But despite its steep-stair basement entrance on 18th Street NW, bearded beverage director, and dramatic metal door, the owner wants to strike a buzzword from the conversation: \u201cI don\u2019t want to use the term &#8216;speakeasy,&#8217; because we\u2019re not going to do any passwords, reservations, or anything like that,\u201d says\u00a0<strong>Brian Westlye<\/strong>. \u201cWe want it to be almost the anti-speakeasy, where it\u2019s very approachable and you feel comfortable.\u201d<span id=\"more-86737\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Westlye prefers to call the basement bar a \u201ctest kitchen\u201d because cocktails birthed below ground can graduate to the Rebellion menu if they prove to be hits. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtoncitypaper.com\/blogs\/youngandhungry\/2016\/02\/08\/dont-call-this-new-basement-bar-a-speakeasy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When\u00a0The Armory\u00a0opens below\u00a0Rebellion\u00a0on Feb. 17, it aims to be more sophisticated than its wing-slinging, bourbon-guzzling parent bar upstairs. But despite its steep-stair basement entrance on 18th Street NW, bearded beverage director, and dramatic metal door, the owner wants to strike a buzzword from the conversation: \u201cI don\u2019t want to use the term &#8216;speakeasy,&#8217; because we\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[156,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drink","category-washington-dc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9buia-z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1952,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/1952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}