Posted on 12/23/2023 7:15:08 PM PST by nickcarraway
Halfway down a Bushwick side street, in the back of an artisanal doughnut shop and through a photobooth, this rhino-themed restaurant has quietly been slinging drinks and bites since October.
Ra-Ra Rhino, the latest addition to the city’s hidden watering hole scene, offers a sleek, Tiki-influenced back room with an eccentric menu of drinks and eats, as well as a smoke-blowing rhino head.
The inspiration for the new speakeasy came when bar owner Michael Lombardozzi was searching for a doughnut shop in Bushwick during the coronavirus pandemic. “I discovered there aren’t any,” Lombardozzi said. So he decided to open Ra-Ra Rhino’s front, Dromedary Doughnuts — but doughnuts alone didn’t strike him as a good business model, so he also decided to build “an elevated, elegant, sexy cocktail bar” in the back, too.
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Speakeasy, so no license...
More likely serving: Testicle dishes and Sodemite Cocktails
Bushwick? Really? That section started to go to bad the 1960’s and got worse after the 1977 NYC blackout. It’s still a crappy neighborhood even with the gentrification. One would be taking a big risk trying to start and maintain a business there.
Does it look like John McCain or Paul Ryan?
And is there some new-culture significance to smoke blowing or rhino heads that normal people have not heard about?
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