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Neighborhood bars often instrumentality years, if not decades, to afloat found their character. Jive Turkey, a caller Downtown dive located crossed from Huntridge Center connected Maryland and Charleston, feels similar an objection to that rule.
Housed successful the erstwhile abstraction of the historical Mahoney’s Drum Shop and founded by barroom manufacture veterans Sam Pulliam and Adam O’Donnell, Jive Turkey is each spot arsenic funky arsenic its sanction suggests. The 4,300-square-foot bar, which features an outdoor courtyard and an adjacent gathering with seating and a signifier for unrecorded music, nails a fig of retro motifs, from kitschy wallpaper successful the restrooms to a vintage mural of bursting stripes down the bar. There’s adjacent earthy airy inside—what a concept!
A clip capsule comes to caput erstwhile Pulliam thinks of the space, but he’s speedy to adhd that Jive Turkey isn’t a ’70s-themed bar, “but a barroom that could person existed successful the ’70s.”
“Downtown spoke to america due to the fact that it’s really got immoderate benignant and history. Vegas is known for knocking things down and gathering anew,” says Pulliam. “We looked astatine the Arts District, but past this country conscionable felt similar the close timing and accidental to get into. …This gathering was built successful 1963, truthful trying to shoehorn a barroom into a unsocial abstraction was exciting.”
Jive Turkey highlights section past and pays respect successful respective ways. Its Bonneville cocktail tips its chapeau to the Downtown street, but besides delivers a banging recipe. There’s besides a conception of the paper for Other People’s Property, which features cocktail staples similar the Cable Car and Infante from household names similar Tony Abou-Ganim and Giuseppe González, respectively.
The remainder of the paper is exceptionally playful, with cocktails similar Birds Aren’t Real ($14) tapping into our interior conspiracy theorist, and Take It In the Can ($14) unlocking a caller appreciation for abrogation drinks with a bite. In contrast, the Over 21 ($14), a concoction of cinnamon amaretto, rye whiskey and—wait for it—Yoo-hoo cocoa drink, sings backmost to our puerility successful a mode nary different cocktail can.
On apical of those offerings, you tin besides take … mayhem. Jive Turkey’s paper offers a database of silly activities. You tin wage to “ice” idiosyncratic with a vessel of Smirnoff. You tin wage to person your Polaroid taken and pinned to the wall. You tin adjacent wage to person a bully outcry successful the bar’s walk-in, though hugs mightiness travel with an other fee.
It’s wholly unserious, and Pulliam knows it. But it’s besides what makes a memorable night. That’s wherefore there’s besides a “family meal.”
“In restaurants, you person a household repast earlier your shift,” Pulliam explains. “If you enactment with america until close, astir nights, we are going to connection immoderate benignant of amusive nutrient point for those radical who marque it to the extremity of the night.”
Pulliam doesn’t place Jive Turkey arsenic a gastropub but sees its nutrient paper arsenic “our champion imaginable mentation of classical barroom food.” Being from Chicago, helium had to person a Chicago canine ($9) connected the menu—the man’s got a tattoo of 1 connected his forearm, for crying retired loud. Pulliam says they dice each the accepted toppings of the blistery canine into a relish, ensuring texture and consistency successful each bite. The Oklahoma-style bulb smashburger ($9) besides knocks it retired of the parkland with a chuck, abbreviated rib and brisket beef blend, thinly sliced onion, house-made burger condiment and pickles wedged into a murphy bun.
Acknowledging those tasty bites, the Short Rib Sando ($16) is the standout.
“Our chef, Bruce Flowers, is braising abbreviated ribs for 3 to 4 hours successful the backmost with tons of vegetables and aromatics, and it becomes ace tender. Then helium makes a gravy retired of that, the renderings from each the abbreviated rib,” Pulliam says. “It goes connected a sandwich with arugula, dijonnaise, caramelized onions and section sourdough from a bakery by my house, the Daily Bread.”
If you’ve saved immoderate room, you tin besides bid Mom’s Dessert of the Week ($7) from Jive Turkey’s “other” chef.
“Adam’s ma virtually volunteered herself arsenic tribute to marque america desserts,” Pulliam says. “The archetypal week she brought successful Texas expanse cake, a cocoa barroom that she made. We had an pome rhubarb pastry and a blueberry pie. She’s busy!”
You can’t inquire for much quality than that.
JIVE TURKEY 608 S. Maryland Parkway #160, 702-202-0023. Daily, 3 p.m.-3 a.m.
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