Bartender Jeffrey Morgenthaler — known for his tenure at celebrated downtown bars Clyde Common and Pepe Le Moko — opens another bar within the Kex hotel today. The Sunset Room, taking over the rooftop at Kex, will specialize in drinks like boozy slushies and chilled wines, a separate cocktail menu from Morgenthaler’s Pacific Standard in the hotel’s lobby.
According to Morgenthaler, the Sunset Room is meant to be more whimsical and irreverent than Pacific Standard, which opened in June. That bar, downstairs, serves things like gimlets and espresso martinis in a sophisticated space, with accompanying hotel bar standards like oysters on the half-shell and prawn cocktail.
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