Hoffman is also looking forward to sharing an acai "Cali champagne" - a piña colada served with California Cuvee - and a beet-washed Japanese gin drink called the Red Snapper, similar in style to a bloody mary. Patrick's Day opening, Hoffman is preparing a Teeling Irish whiskey cold brew with a salted pistachio crema top, a twist on the the Irish coffee cocktail. Hoffman is putting her years of bartending to work with their cocktail menu. believed in me, and I believed in her and we just looked at each other and we were like, 'We're going to go for it.'" "Self-doubt is a real thing and you can't let it take over, sometimes. Let's just do it,'" Hoffman said of her discussions with Nguyen about opening the bar. "It was kind of just like, 'Well, we're going to do it. Hoffman found the space for the new bar in what was formerly Tonic on Post Street and felt like "there was no better time than now." And while the venture seems like a risky one following a year of restaurant and bar closures during the pandemic, Hoffman said the time felt right given the rollout of vaccinations and with the change of political parties in the White House. Hoffman's wife, Lauren Nguyen, designed and built out the bar - and is quite luckily a Plant Person who gave the bar its plant-y feel and helped load up the space with plenty of greenery. After this COVID stuff, we need something to feel good about again, you know?" On November 27, 1978, Milk and Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, a disgruntled former city supervisor who cast the sole vote against Milk’s bill.ĭespite his short career in politics, Milk became an icon in San Francisco and a martyr in the gay community."We want to try too hard for a theme, but it just came naturally," said Hoffman of the bar. The Supervisors passed the bill by a vote of 11–1, and it was signed into law by Mayor George Moscone. Milk served almost eleven months in office, during which he sponsored a bill banning discrimination in public accommodations, housing, and employment on the basis of sexual orientation. Milk was elected city supervisor in 1977 after San Francisco reorganized its election procedures to choose representatives from neighborhoods rather than through city-wide ballots. His experience in the counterculture of the 1960s caused him to shed many of his conservative views about individual freedom and the expression of sexuality. Milk was born and raised in New York where he acknowledged his homosexuality as an adolescent, but chose to pursue sexual relationships with secrecy and discretion well into his adult years. The MILK Bar is named after the American politician and activist Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
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There is a big craze for MILK and we are very happy about that’, the owners told us – ‘there are a lot of gay friendly bars in Dubrovnik, but not a gay bar. ‘We follow trends, we follow the world scene. Therefore, the idea of opening a gay bar was not only spontaneous, but also a completely logical step forward. Numerous members of the gay population have been warmly welcomed guests in Dubrovnik for years, even decades. Fifty square meters in size, the MILK club, located in Marojica Kaboga Street, arose as a spontaneous idea following the rhythm of the market. The weekend ahead of us might just be the turning point in Dubrovnik’s nightlife offer.