The room is as long as the ceiling is low, giving it just the right amount of coziness. The band was on a break but I could see a guitar, saxophone, upright bass, and drum set resting under the spotlight in the dimly lit space. When I entered the Rabbithole, I did not hear jazz. The Rabbithole, a listening room hidden beneath Lake Effect, offers a premium version of this music in a rendition of its original historical setting every Wednesday. But very few of these hidden bars offer live jazz - the sonic backdrop of the decade also known as The Jazz Age. This vogue is especially relevant for Utahns who might feel uncommon liquor laws echo those of the 1920s. Recreations of Prohibition-era clubs (sans gangster violence) is enticing for mixologists and refined drinkers alike. Hidden bars and speakeasies are in vogue. I was headed to the basement lounge to hear jazz. A soulful singer-songwriter sitting behind his electric keyboard entices me to stay but this was not my destination. When I walk in, the long bar draping the entire right wall attracts my attention and a John Legend cover, my ears. Lake Effect’s modern take on 19th-century decor and alluring atmosphere wrapped in the diaphanous sounds of quality music drifting out onto the street set this bar apart from all others in Salt Lake City. It isn’t until I see the Victorian-era, round-a-bout conversation chairs peer behind the patio that I know I’m in the right place.
The sign for my destination is small and unassuming, a lit marquee engulfed by an array of larger business signs.
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