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Recent Examples of speakeasy
The property is steps from the lush Boston Common, chef Jamie Bissonnette’s lauded home-style Korean restaurant Somaek, and Yvonne’s for supper-club-meets-speakeasy energy.
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Tanya Edwards,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
16 June 2026
Melanie and Sincere do not kiss in the speakeasy, but only barely.
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Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
16 June 2026
There’s a speakeasy on site as well as a wine cellar, where the local community and guests enjoy weekly changing cocktails and even charcuterie on cellar nights (last Thursday of the month).
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Midwest Living,
15 June 2026
Follow the green neon sign into the speakeasy-style Absinthe Bar, a combination museum and homage to Antibes’s bohemian artist past.
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Lane Nieset,
Travel + Leisure,
13 June 2026
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Tanya Edwards,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
16 June 2026
Melanie and Sincere do not kiss in the speakeasy, but only barely.
—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
16 June 2026
There’s a speakeasy on site as well as a wine cellar, where the local community and guests enjoy weekly changing cocktails and even charcuterie on cellar nights (last Thursday of the month).
—
Midwest Living,
15 June 2026
Follow the green neon sign into the speakeasy-style Absinthe Bar, a combination museum and homage to Antibes’s bohemian artist past.
—
Lane Nieset,
Travel + Leisure,
13 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for speakeasy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for speakeasy
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There are more than 70 hits sprinkled like glitter across this tale of a pair of lovers and a cast of performers at the Moulin Rouge cabaret club.
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The cabaret show officially reopened its doors to the public that September following an 18-month shutdown.
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As an aging Albanian nightclub owner, Crowe proves consistently delightful even when the material lets him down.
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That portion of the nightclub was subsequently closed.
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Down at the Borderline kicks up some roadhouse dirt, for example, while the recent Nobody Held Her Like Me explores soul music.
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The park’s visitor center, in a 1935 roadhouse that sat on Route 66, contains displays with Route 66 memorabilia (and a gift shop with hundreds of Route 66 items).
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The beloved bistro, which occupies a prime position in Greenwich Village, has reopened after almost 20 months of extensive building repairs.
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Beloved neighborhood bistro Claudette has reopened its doors.
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At the airport, a group of cadets loitered by a lactation pod, and people at the terminal alehouse seemed to be having a genuinely good time.
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Carrying news, satire and story into places where expensive books had seldom reached, they were sold for pennies, tacked to alehouse walls and sung aloud for the illiterate.
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The estate’s centerpiece is a speakeasy-style of saloon designed as a private entertainment space.
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In the evening, Banff’s newest late-night spot, The Dusty Boot Saloon, channels cowboy country motifs through nostalgic saloon energy and a lively dance hall, stage for live music and hidden lounges.
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The restaurant adds culinary heft to a neighborhood often geared toward sports (the name is an Italian translation of a legendary Seattle Mariners sportscaster’s signature phrase) and shares its windowed space with two other new Sea Creatures projects, a brewpub and a slice bar.
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Winking Lizard This brewpub in the heart of the park offers better-than-average bar food and 150 different beers.
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This elite slice of city life is thriving as many bars, pubs and nightclubs come under strain.
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The seasonal produce—refreshing watermelon, ripe peaches, sweet silver queen corn, juicy heirloom tomatoes; pub subs on the beach; and anything coming off the grill.
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“Speakeasy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speakeasy. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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