The Sunken Harbor Club

The Sunken Harbor Club Sunken Harbor Club is an immersive tropical cocktail bar located on the second floor above Gage & Tollner.

If the mysterious authors of the Compendium Bibendium are to be believed, the Sunken Harbor Club has existed for hundred...
01/10/2022

If the mysterious authors of the Compendium Bibendium are to be believed, the Sunken Harbor Club has existed for hundreds of years, and it’s members hail from every corner of the earth. Their thirst for knowledge of secret, mixological arts was unquenchable, as reflected in their motto: Imus Ad Infima—we go the deepest, or we go to the bottommost depths.

As our code-breaking work progresses, more of the Club’s history will be revealed. In the meantime, we hope you’ll enjoy our menu of cocktails once thought lost forever, translated from secret code, straight from the pages of the Compendium Bibendium.

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Fool’s Cap Map of the World (artist, date and place of publication unknown; suspected c.1590)

BIN-N-GITTERS“Our friend Commander Foulcques was a little balder and a little grayer since we’d last lifted the glass wi...
01/08/2022

BIN-N-GITTERS

“Our friend Commander Foulcques was a little balder and a little grayer since we’d last lifted the glass with him. That was on a little British sloop-of-war chasing smugglers from the Ganges Delta to Rangoon in good pre-Hitler pre-Tojo days; yet he greeted us naturally in the bar of the little three-story white frame Park Hotel as though we’d said goodbye only yesterday and had a date for sundown together there… instead of the usual Chota-Peg, Gin-‘n’-Tonic, Gin-‘n’-Bitters, he asked for a glass full of fine cracked ice, a Booth’s House of Lord Gin bottle, peel from a small green lime, some unsweetened Rose’s Lime Juice Cordial, and the Angostura.

‘My own jolly invention,’ he stated. ‘Tired of ruddy old plain Pink Gin, y’know. Call it Bin-‘n’-Gitters. Rather good name, what?… God save the King and memory of old Admiral Grog!’”

from the Sunken Harbor Club Compendium Bibendium, vol. ###IX, 1951, “Testimony from Charles H. Baker, British Guiana”

12/30/2021

Club doors are back open! Come visit us this week between 5pm-Midnight, Wednesday-Saturday.



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“Leaves Swim” by Shimabuku, 2011 (via )

Sunken Harbor Club will be closed through December 28 while we ride out this latest wave of the pandemic. We look forwar...
12/20/2021

Sunken Harbor Club will be closed through December 28 while we ride out this latest wave of the pandemic.

We look forward to welcoming you all back into the Club on Wednesday the 29th!

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Artwork by Gustav Doré, Sailing to the Moon” from The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, 1867

The discovery of the Compendium Bibendium has caused us to rethink everything we thought we knew about the history of co...
12/11/2021

The discovery of the Compendium Bibendium has caused us to rethink everything we thought we knew about the history of cocktails. Most historians consider the cocktail an American invention from the 18th century with roots in the British tradition of punch, that spread around the world in the 19th century through British and American imperialism. The Compendium Bibendium depicts a world where mixed drinks and spirits have existed throughout human history, and “cocktail cultures” have sprung up independently, in all corners of the globe.

All of the “original” drinks served at the Sunken Harbor Club are in fact recipes taken from the pages of the Compendium Bibendium. As we continue to decipher the pages, we’ll bring more Club drinks to the menu.

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Artwork sourced from DailyO/India Today

Through the Compendium Bibendium, we’re able to understand who the members of the Sunken Harbor Club were. They were his...
12/04/2021

Through the Compendium Bibendium, we’re able to understand who the members of the Sunken Harbor Club were. They were historians, researchers, scientists, vagabonds, artists, and explorers, united by their love of really good things to drink. They collected recipes from around the world and across the ages, recorded them in these pages, and served them to their fellow club members. These recipes are accompanied by the tale of their discovery, often involving adventure, espionage, and feats of heroism.

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Underwater photo by Louis Boutan (Banyuls-sur-Mer, south of France, 1899) featuring oceanographer and biologist Emil Racoviță equipped with a standard diving dress. Via

The Compendium Bibendium is a collection of leatherbound notebooks filled with illustrations and handwritten notes, writ...
11/28/2021

The Compendium Bibendium is a collection of leatherbound notebooks filled with illustrations and handwritten notes, written in a secret code, and discovered in a hidden closet in the Sunken Harbor Club. It took Ben and St. John years to break the code, but now they’re able to slowly decipher its contents, page by page.

They uncovered that the books contain minutes of club meetings, wild stories of adventure, and most importantly — recipes for some of the most delicious libations that humankind has ever known.

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Excerpt from The Voynich Manuscript, date and author unknown

In 2018, Ben Schneider and St. John Frizell were exploring the second floor of the Gage & Tollner building when they dis...
11/20/2021

In 2018, Ben Schneider and St. John Frizell were exploring the second floor of the Gage & Tollner building when they discovered a secret door in the back of a closet. Through that door, they discovered the ruins of the Sunken Harbor Club, built to look like a ship’s hold, covered with dust and obviously unused for decades.

In a box of old documents, they found ephemera featuring the Sunken Harbor Club name and logo, indicating that the room once hosted club meetings. The purpose of the Club, and what they did in that room, were completely unknown — until they discovered the Compendium Bibendium.

A detail from the 15th-century "Studiolo Gubbio", one of the finest examples of intarsia, the masterful art of fitting together pieces of wood to make complex optical illusions.

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At its height in the late-1800s/early 1900s, there may have been as many as 50 chapters of the Sunken Harbor Club around...
11/17/2021

At its height in the late-1800s/early 1900s, there may have been as many as 50 chapters of the Sunken Harbor Club around the world. There is proof that chapters existed in Paris, New Orleans, London, Honolulu, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Panama, Buenos Aires, Bermuda, Havana, Casablanca, Cairo, and Singapore. Club activity seems to have ceased altogether by 1975, and all traces of the Club vanished — until now.

Schematic map of the world, artist unknown, from Jean Corbichon’s translation of De Proprietatibus Rerum by Bartholomaeus Anglicus, French, 15th century

As featured in ’s ‘The Book of Change,’ October 2021

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372 Fulton Street, 2nd Fl
Brooklyn, NY
11201

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Monday 5pm - 11pm
Tuesday 5pm - 11pm
Wednesday 5pm - 11pm
Thursday 5pm - 11pm
Friday 5pm - 12am
Saturday 5pm - 12am
Sunday 5pm - 11pm

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