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STEPHEN DENTON
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James Beard-nominated, restaurant innovator Sam Fox and his Fox Restaurant Concepts team are bringing an underground bar called Pushing Daisies to Fifth + Broadway later this year.
The tequila and margarita focused concept will be below Blanco at Fifth + Broadway. Designed in collaboration with architect firm Smith Hanes, guests will immediately feel as if they have been transported to the basement of an old Spanish casa in the heart of Mexico City.
Guests will transcend the staircase down to an elusive underground hallway leading to a nondescript front door of the bar. Inside, opposite the bar, sits a stage that will feature custom stage lighting crafted from found objects. The daisy debuts throughout the space, from intricate floral patterns adorning the walls and seating to the daisy patterned penny tile floor encircling the bar. Plush and pillowy elevated banquettes, leather channeled walls and heavy curtains made of plum-colored velvet will create an intimate space, comfortable and familiar.
“Has anyone ever had a bad time while sipping a perfectly made margarita? I think that’s impossible. To prove it, we went all the way back to the beginning and guess what we found? Tequila has been the star of the show throughout history and its story proves that people have, and always will, love it,” says Fox. “At Pushing Daisies, we hope to celebrate tequila and friendship, two things that will always go together.”
Pushing Daisies is where friends come together with one thing in common: their love for tequila, the sweet liquor from the South. So naturally, we celebrate. A little history lesson - tequila has survived (and frankly, thrived) throughout history. Today we can mow through bottles on bottles of tequila anywhere, anyplace, but a lot of brave tequila-lovin' amigos and amigas had to risk it all to get us to where we are today. The sweet elixir was smuggled for years, through the Mexican Revolution and the Prohibition, leading us up to 1942 – the summer when everything changed. Scribbled on a stack of old bar tabs in El Paso, the original: juice of one lime, four fifths tequila, one fifth Cointreau & salt on the rim of a three-ounce glass. Boom. The Margarita was born. (drinkdaisies.com)