Apotheke Preps For Fashion Week
A remote corner in the heart of Chinatown may soon be known for cocktails with a new lounge Apotheke, Inspired by the histoical apothecary and the artistic influence of absinthe dens in 19th century Paris. How high falluting! Apotheke is prepping for a late summer/early fall open at 9 Doyers Street, a space that itself was once an opium den. Behind the bar and cocktail menu is acclaimed "cocktail chef" Albert Trummer, who has previously worked for Bouley, Kittichai and Thom's Bar. Trummer has partnered with Heather and Chris Tierny, who opened the Burger Shoppe in the Fidi earlier this year.
If you recall, we saw Albert Trummer put on a cocktail show at Norwood earlier this year, and the guy is good. Apparently, Apothéke will feature over 500 house cocktails, and carry over 1000 bottles of liquor from around the world, along with a selection of specialty house elixirs and infusions. The cocktail list will be divided into sections of the apothecary, including categories such as Pain Relief, Stress Relief, Health and Beauty, and Aphrodisiacs, and also boasts the most authentic Absinthe this City has seen in a while, culled from Trummer's personal recipe.
All in all, Apotheke is an extremely ambitious and serious project dedicated to the cocktail, and obviously we are on board. Tierny and her crew have been promoting the space to event planners as ready for Fashion Week, so you may actually get to gander insider if you are cool enough to be involved with Fashion Week.
DBTH
Reader Comments (4)
High Falluting? who says that? it's high fallutin' ... come on DBTH
there goes the neighborhood.
if you serve the "opium" cocktail, there will be massive protests by the community. it's wrong, and not clever at all.
this isn't the early 1900s... there are no more chinamen in chinatown lying in the basement smoking opium for white tourists to gawk at, besides those scenes were staged by tour promoters to give gullible tourists what they want to see.
This is indeed a horrible development for Chinatown. Here's hoping there will be protests from teh residents. who needs such a crappy hipster dive there? Stay on the LES where you belong! Don't ruin quiet Doyers Street, you dull hipster idiots!!