Conspiracy

Conspiracy is undeniably cool. Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack cool. Accessible by an easy-to-miss doorway on Middletown’s Main Street, the second-floor space has the feeling of a secret club straight out of a film noir. Lounge chairs snake around an L-shaped room with painted-white brick walls. Edison bulbs hang from lofty ceilings, casting their warm light over a showstopping square bar. Behind the bar, bartenders twirl, mix and shake various liquids as they prepare alcoholic elixirs, often from historic recipes.

Nestled on the second floor of the 1920s Capital Theater Building on Main Street in Middletown is a new and distinctive addition to the Connecticut cocktail scene. Meant to make you feel as though you are living in the age before Prohibition - when bartenders were idolized and cocktails were spirit forward and thoughtfully crafted, Conspiracy delivers on the Secret Society feel.