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With its sultry red walls and velvet-clad armchairs, waiters in black suits balancing trays of Old Fashioneds and Manhattans and live jazz band jamming on the stage, the only proof that we are, in fact, not in the 1920s is (thankfully) the absence of a thick cloud of cigarette smoke in the air.
Downstairs is the main event – a restaurant with a big appetite for fresh seafood, along with classics such as slow-roasted lamb – but upstairs is this tucked-away bar, decorated with bubbling installations of Breaking Bad-style tubes and siphons and with more mirrors than a disco glitterball.
Rome’s mayor Roberto Gualteri has expressed support of the plan, put forth by tourism official Alessandro Onorato, who noted that the admission fee would be on par with the amount of money many visitors toss into the world-famous wishing well, which already rakes in well over $1M annually.