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Fall in love with Capulet Cocktail Club, midtown’s first cocktail bar

Inspired by “Romeo & Juliet” and Italian films, this new cocktail club at The Exchange comes from the same mind Watts & Ward and Peregrine.

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Take a look at Golden Thread, one of the bar’s featured cocktails.

Photos provided by Capulet Cocktail Club

Midtown will get its first cocktail bar this fall, and it’s coming from someone who knows a thing or two about local hospitality. Capulet Cocktail Club comes from local artist, filmmaker, and entrepreneur Patrick Shanahan, who you might recognize from Peregrine and Watts & Ward.

The new cocktail bar will open at The Exchange‘s interior courtyard in midtown, right near Shanahan’s Peregrine. Capulet Cocktail Club is named after Shakespeare’s tragic Juliet and will use her + Italian films as its muse. Expect a indoor Roman-inspired sanctuary with a 32-foot dome and an outdoor garden bar reminiscent of Italian courtyards and piazzas.

“Italy has always been at the forefront of fashion, art, and cinema, influencing culture worldwide,” Shanahan said. “At Capulet Cocktail Club, we’re creating a space to experience that same sense of la dolce vita.”

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