First Look: Gaslamp Hawai‘i

Catherine Toth Fox | October 23, 2017

original article published on honolulumagazine.com

Gaslamp's creative founder may not be old enough to remember the start of the modern-day speakeasy boom, which began with the opening of Milk & Honey in New York City on New Year’s Eve 1999—much less the original speakeasies during the Prohibition Era.

But the 24-year-old has figured out how to create one in his hometown of Kailua, complete with a hidden entrance, modernized classic cocktails and a throwback ambiance that has inspired patrons to dress in fringe and feathers.

Gaslamp, the neighborhood’s only speakeasy, quietly opened three weeks ago—as a speakeasy should—inside the Kailua Town Pub & Grill. The entrance is a phone booth off the bar, manned (at least on Saturday night) by a young blonde decked in a black flapper dress and a long string of pearls who only allows guests in with reservations and a valid ID.

“I wanted to bring something to Kailua that had this [speakeasy] edge and craft cocktails,”.. read more on at https://www.honolulumagazine.com/first-look-gaslamp-hawaii/