LAKE COUNTY — The Ely Stage Stop and County Museum is taking people on a ride through time by bringing historic cocktails to restaurants with the program “Cocktails in the West.”
The program”s menu has cocktails a person might have ordered during the Old West saloon era, including the champagne cocktail, whiskey cocktail), Manhattan club (the original Manhattan) and the Saratoga, according to docent Linda Drake.
The participating restaurants are the Blue Wing Saloon in Upper Lake, the Saw Shop Gallery Bistro in Kelseyville and the Boar”s Breath in Middletown, Drake stated. Each building has it”s own history.
The Blue Wing Saloon Restaurant in Upper Lake, adjacent to the Tallman Hotel, is a recreation of the original 1880”s saloon that was demolished during Prohibition, she stated.
The Saw Shop Gallery Bistro in Kelseyville is housed in a 1906, late-Victorian-period building with some of the architectural details still intact, Drake stated. The building has been used as a boarding house and private residence in the past. The bar was milled from Lake County black walnut as well.
The Boar”s Breath in Middletown is the oldest of the three buildings, Drake stated. The corner brick building has housed a turn-of-the-century general mercantile and the original ?Corner Store” now known as Hardester”s.
Recipes for the historical cocktails and history booklets are available for purchase in the Ely Stage Stop, located at 9921 Soda Bay Road in Kelseyville. It is open on Saturdays and Sundays 11a.m. to 3p.m.
For more information call 533-9990 or email elystagestop@gmail.com.
Further information available at www.elystagestop.com or www.facebook.com/elystagestop.
