From Rex at the Royal Dining & Beverage Manager, Joshua Scheid, Rex’s partner, Regina, is a monthly menu-driven cocktail tasting in our candle lit mezzanine cocktail lounge.
Luxuriate in the pleasure of the temporary as we invite you to a truly unique cocktail experience–the innovation, thoughtfulness and creative spark that have crowned Rex’s bar Royal endow Regina with our signature intentionality, while, in jocular retort, a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it excitement sets our chimeric queen apart from her steadfast partner just down the grand staircase.
Regina: a constellatory cocktail experience is inspired by the 7th Ward Tribute’ Legacy Reclaimed, in particular the installation “Reflecting Revenants” which will celebrate the final day of its display in our mezzanine with Regina. The entire series quietly yet insistently reminds the viewer that places are made of the people who come to spend time in them. A place—a bar, say—is the composite shape of the lives and choices which make it unique. Regina will feature cocktails which trace a different shape—rather than the people of a place, the places of a person.
Our path from place to place is a cartography of breadcrumb pieces of ourselves, but every now and then we mark a place as special by planting a beacon—to help us know where we’re going and understand where we’ve been. The shape of this path can only be seen from the ground with sky-ward gaze: a constellation telling the story of a person by the places they’ve valued the most.
The menu will chart this constellatory path through taste—how we share ourself with a place through the flavors we love—with cocktails inspired by real-life examples of those heart-held tastes from a few of the people who have been here.