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The Evening

From Soup to Nuts

Step back into a roaring good time as we weave our way through the Duquesne Club and its rooms.

Speakeasy Reception

5:30 PM
Wet your whistle and whet your appetite with a Jazz Age original or a concoction of your own desires. Founder's Room

A Jazz Age Dinner

6:30 - 7:30 PM
The evening continues with three sumptuous courses and a special guest who will set us up for the evening’s entertainment. Ballroom

Vintage Vignettes

7:30 - 9:30 PM
Peek back in time to the Jazz Age and a few of the characters who helped write the Pittsburgh story. Duquesne Club Rooms

Deco Desserts

9:30 PM
After dinner drinks and desserts, complete with a reprise of characters at our tables. Ballroom

The selections

Menu

A return to a sumptuous table after WWI with a nod to “modern” French inspiration.

Hors d’oeuvres

Spicy hummus on ciabatta crisp, red pepper and snipped chives

Smoked Salmon and Horseradish Cream Cheese Pinwheel on Marble Rye, pickled cucumber and dill

Petite Shrimp Cocktail, cocktail sauce

Curry Vegetable and Sweet Potato Samosa

Elysian Fields Lamb Meatballs, Rhubarb gastrique dipping sauce

Petite Frankfurters in Puff Pastry, honey mustard sauce

Dinner Menu

Grilled Romaine Caesar Salad, Chevre Croustade, and White Truffle Deviled Egg

Paneed Breast of Chicken Le Cordon Bleu, Dijon Mornay Sauce

Vegetarian Meal Medley of Steamed Spring Vegetables featuring Green and white asparagus, fennel, snap peas, heirloom carrots and French Breakfast Radishes Roasted Marble potatoes and Maitake mushrooms, lemon-tofu "aioli"

Dessert

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Spiced Vanilla Cake, baked with sweet roasted pineapples and brown sugar, served with vanilla salted caramel sauce, fresh strawberries and whipped cream

Slip into the Speakeasy and sip into something more comfortable.  …Like the blues.

Blue Martini

2 oz Vodka ½ oz Blue Curaçao ½ oz Cocchi Americano 2 dashes Orange Bitters Orange Twist, for garnish

The Profile

Bitter, Sweet
Strength

Sidecar

1 ½ oz Cognac ¾ oz Cointreau ¾ oz Lemon Juice Garnish: orange twist, sugar rim

The Profile

Sweet, Sour
Strength

French 75

1 oz Gin
½ oz Lemon Juice, freshly squeezed
½ oz Simple Syrup
3 ounces Champagne (or other sparkling wine)
Garnish: lemon twist

The Profile

Sweet, Sour

Strength

Old Fashioned

2 ounces Whiskey 1 bar spoon Honey 2 dashes Angostura Bitters 2 dashes Orange Bitters

The Profile

Bitter
Strength

Gin Rickey

2 oz Gin Half a Lime Club Soda

The Profile

Sour
Strength

Corpse Reviver #2

¾ oz Gin ¾ oz Cointreau ¾ oz Cocchi Americano ¾ oz Lemon Juice 3 dahes Absinthe

The Profile

Sour
Strength
Welcome

The Roaring Twenties

The Look

The Fashion of the Jazz Age

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Real stories

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Promotions

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Hot Times

The Jazz Age

Prohibition

The 18th Amendment went into effect January 17, 1920 and opened the door into the Jazz Age.

1920

Women's Suffrage

The right to vote brought women to the polls and to clubs and bars as well as a new age began.

1920

Radio Jazz

Earl Hines and Lois Deppe perform the first jazz on radio on KDKA. They are also the first African American performers on live radio.

1921

THE CHARLESTON

Runnin’ Wild on Broadway features ‘The Charleston’, and it becomes a national dance craze.

1923

PIRATES WIN!

Barney Dreyfuss’ Pittsburgh Pirates take the World Series from the Washington Senators, 4 games to 3.

1925

ST. VALENTINE’S DAY MASSACRE

Perhaps the single most talked-about event in Prohibition America. A shoot-em-up in Chicago.

1929

STOCK MARKET CRASH

The day the blues came crashing home...October 29, 1929. Often referred to as the beginning of the Great Depression.

1929

CRAWFORD GRILL

Known as the epicenter of jazz on the hill, the original Crawford Grill is founded by William “Gus” Greenlee.

1930

PROHIBITION ENDS

December 5, 1933, the “Noble Experiment” ends, and spirits are lifted once again.

1933

Famous & Infamous

Jazz Age Encounters

The Volpe Brothers

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Mary Lou Williams

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Barney Dreyfuss

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They said

testimonials

Eum posidonium dissentias id. Ne possit suavitate pri, sint erroribus ut eam, eum ea nullam repudiare. Affert dolore pertinax at sit, meis omnis causae vix ei ne possit suavitate pri, sint erroribus ut eam, eum ea nullam.

John Wilson

Quot reprehendunt vim ne, ceteros dignissim mnesarchum ius ut, habemus persecuti vis ad. Ne per scripta intellegebat dicant habemus definitionem sed ei, elit gubergren sed ut, ne fugit summo si suavitate.

Michael Rogers

WPa speakeasys

pre-Prohibition distillers in WPa

gallons a day of whiskey at Overholt & Co. distillery

value of confiscated whiskey from one raid that disappeared and “must have leaked” according to police

thirsty Pittsburghers live in the 10th largest U.S. city in 1930

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