Bamboo Room Chicago

Chicago’s Three Dots and a Dash opened speakeasy space, The Bamboo Room, as a bar-in-a-bar concept. The rum-centric menu at the 22-seat Bamboo Room is led by beverage director Kevin Beary. As a small, intimate bar, his team can play with progressive techniques and curate cocktails that aren’t possible to execute at a high volume tiki bar.

The Bamboo Room’s menu has four categories of cocktails — Daiquiris, allowing guests to choose between four rum blends as a base; Stirred, a trio of spirit-forward cocktails that spotlight the flavor of aged cane spirits through simple combinations; Classic, which has iconic tiki drinks like the Mai Tai and Zombie served in vintage mugs sourced from tiki institutions; and Modern, a collection of  cocktails that each have a tiki element and are made with progressive techniques.

Your choice of rum blend from an extensive menu mixed with fresh Lime Juice and Martinique Sirop De Canne; served in the Traditional Style – shaken and served up, or over shaved block ice made from Cold-Pressed Pineapple Juice.

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Trader Vic’s original version is punched up with high-test rum float; Worthy Park Rum-Bar Gold Rum, Neisson Blanc 52.5 Rhum, Real McCoy 12-Year-Old Rum, Sumatra Mandarin Curacao, Lime and Orgeat.

Based on Don The Beachcomber’s cocktail; Appleton 12-Year-Old Rum, Hampden Estate Rum Fire Overproof Rum, St. Lucia Distillers Forgotten Cask Rum, Cinnamon, Pomegranate, Falernum, Lime, Grapefruit, Aromatic Bitters and Absinthe.

Another Don The Beachcomber creation with a recommended option of a Green Chartreuse float; Don Q Single Barrel 2005 Rum. Don Poncho 8-Year-Old Rum, Peach, Mint, Pineapple, Lime and Honey. Optional Green Chartreuse float; serves 2.

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Modeled after Fort Lauderdale’s Mai-Kai version; freshly brewed Kona Coffee, LemonHart 151 Rum, Heritage Farm Honey, Coconut, Orange, Ceylon Cinnamon Stick, and Flames. Serves 2.

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The Bamboo Room At Three Dots And A Dash, 435 N Clark St, Chicago, Il, Bars

Stagecoach 2019 Survival Guide: Everything You Need To Know Features The Best Time to Drink Coffee, Hint it Isn’t When you First Wake FeaturesDrinks that should require presentation, explanation and nuance (not to mention a little friendly banter) are foisted forth in seconds, particularly on crowded weekends. Novice drinkers abound, forward-thinking tipplers can’t get a seat, and nobody’s happy with the inflated prices.

But nestled between the sports bars, blues clubs and Irish pubs that dot Chicago’s River North is Three Dots and a Dash, a creative tiki bar that recently found a way to adjust to its own (deserved) popularity.

Hidden on the premises, you’ll find a second, smaller and quieter bar called the The Bamboo Room, where the Three Dots team crafts cocktails and pours spirits you won’t find in the main room (or, really, anywhere else). And they’ll throw in what amounts to a one-on-one TED Talk on rum while you’re there.

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To enter the 22-seat speakeasy, you’ll need to make a separate reservation, book about two hours of time and put down a modest deposit. The extra effort is worth it: headed up by Three Dots beverage director Kevin Beary, Bamboo is the most progressive and refined take on rum and rum-based cocktails that we’ve found in the United States.

“The goal of The Bamboo Room is to have an intimate space where we can experiment and push the boundaries of tiki and rum cocktails, ” Beary tells . “And the small size of the concept allows us to spend dedicated time with each guest, exploring their preferences and tailoring cocktails and spirits specifically to their palates.”

If you do the guided tasting (a la carte bar seating/ordering is also available), Beary and his team will start by asking you a series of questions: How often do you drink tiki drinks? Are you a fan of rum? Do you like stronger or more tropical drinks? Do you prefer prefer bitter or sweet flavors? Etc. From there, the team will customize3-4 courses of cocktails within or outside of the discussed parameters, depending on how adventurous you’re feeling. They’ll then use feedback from each course to inform your followup cocktails.

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These small, curated cocktail experiences are a welcome trend (or at least a return to form), and something you can also find in Chicago speakeasies like kumiko, The Aviary offshoot The Office, or Milk Room at the Chicago Athletic Association hotel.

As a side note, The Bamboo Room doesn’t needlessly up their prices — you’ll be getting cocktails prepared in unique and proprietary ways with near impossible-to-find rums for around $10-$18, or about $26-$28 in cocktails made for two.

The room’s signature drinks include a daiquiri poured into a coupe filled with ice made from fresh pineapple juice and hand cranked using a kakigori ice shaver (it’s your go-to Instagram pic). You can also choose a daiquiri crafted from one of four house rum blends created by Beary. The Disco, for example, features overproof white rum, funky rhum agricole blanc and cask-strength cachaca.

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View this post on Instagram So excited to test out @threedotsandadash in person (also that’s my hand and h/t @sarahroonyc for the pic)… they’re doing amazing things with tiki drinks and rum #rum #tiki #chicago A post shared by Kirk Miller (@kirkmiller25) on May 10, 2019 at 7:29pm PDT

Also available: an array of stirred drinks, classic rum cocktail recipes inspired by Don the Beachcomber and Trader Vic’s (Mai Tais, Zombies, the awesome Kona Coffee Grog — all in appropriately awesome tiki mugs and drinkware), and up to five different “modern” takes on rum drinks — including force-carbonated cocktails, as well as a clarified banana punch that somehow turned our least-favorite and an often overpowering cocktail ingredient (banana) into a nuanced, beautiful sipper.

As well, you’ll be to test out rums exclusive to the Bamboo Room or that are pretty much impossible to find in Chicago (or even the U.S.) — many sourced by Beary during his numerous rum field trips around the globe. Those bottles

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Include a 19 year-old cask strength John Dore 1 from fermented molasses bottles via St. Lucia Distillers, all Rhum JM single vintages from 1997-2003 and independent bottlings of Hampden Estate, Monymusk and Diamond Guyana.

If those names mean nothing to you … well, hey, just ask Beary about ‘em. You’ve got a boozy two-hour window and his undivided attention.

Is located within Three Dots and a Dash at 435 N. Clark St. The bar is open Thu-Fri from 4pm–midnight and Sat-Sun from 2pm–midnight. Guided tastings require a $50 deposit per person and bar seating requires a $35 deposit, all of which is applied toward your final bill. You can make a reservation online

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