There are pinwheels, a puff pastry with minced meat and a Spam omelet, an homage to the popularity of canned meat during the 1920s. And there are the huckleberry salmon lollipops, with yuzu cream anglaise and huckleberry pistachio dust. There’s chicken a la king with braised chicken, cognac mushrooms, red peppers, carrots and peas. Highball features an eclectic menu that includes the Bootleggers Board, which has cured meats, chicken liver pate, aged cheeses and crackers.
Highball: A Modern Speakeasy is a swanky venue that opened Monday at Northern Quest Resort and Casino. Actual speakeasies are well in the rear view but clubs, which appropriate speakeasy elements, such as vintage decor, fun finger foods and popular cocktails are all over the country.Īdd Spokane – well, Airway Heights, technically – to the list of cities to have a cool retro bar dubbed a speakeasy. Sobriety was the intention but folks flocked to speakeasies and bootleggers made a fortune. Those roaring 1920s “gin joints” were illegal, under the radar clubs born after alcohol was banned in 1920.
It has been nearly 90 years since prohibition was repealed, but Americans still love speakeasies.
