cocktail lounge
noun
: a public room (as in a hotel, club, or restaurant) where cocktails and other drinks are served
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Nightlife The Speakeasy at Salvation Spirits On a 10-acre orchard, The Speakeasy is Salvation Spirit’s cocktail lounge, were master mixologists are using fruit grown on site and their own spirits in elevated creations.
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Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 15 Nov. 2025
Double Chicken Please, an inventive Lower East Side cocktail lounge that opened in 2020, is an exception—most nights, lines still stretch down the block.
—Jillian Steinhauer, New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2025
Also open now is Little Torch, a cocktail lounge named after Little Torch Key, the smallest and most secluded island in the Florida Keys.
—Miami Herald, 14 Nov. 2025
However, most fine dining, like the Vintage Press restaurant or Elderwood cocktail lounge, are roughly 40 minutes from the park entrance in the city of Visalia.
—AFAR Media, 28 Oct. 2025
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Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 15 Nov. 2025
Double Chicken Please, an inventive Lower East Side cocktail lounge that opened in 2020, is an exception—most nights, lines still stretch down the block.
—Jillian Steinhauer, New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2025
Also open now is Little Torch, a cocktail lounge named after Little Torch Key, the smallest and most secluded island in the Florida Keys.
—Miami Herald, 14 Nov. 2025
However, most fine dining, like the Vintage Press restaurant or Elderwood cocktail lounge, are roughly 40 minutes from the park entrance in the city of Visalia.
—AFAR Media, 28 Oct. 2025
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“Cocktail lounge.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cocktail%20lounge. Accessed 21 Nov. 2025.
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