Bar:  A Temporary Autonomous  Zone. A place for the cross pollination of ideas where you can collect and curate your thoughts

Garden: We have one. Our very own little Heterotopia which is a  microcosm of the world. A distinct space that juxtaposes multiple environments. A symbolic site for growth, decay, and the testing of alternative realities, often happily bringing together myriads of contradictory elements in a single place.

Happy Hour: 4-7PM 

On our walls:

The James Rosenquist F-111 homage is our current house wall paper, it is tentatively titled: F-35 Escatology on the Rocks,  and is replete with the three mathematical equations from Pynchon’s Gravity's Rainbow and other esoteric imagery that intermingles with Rosenquist’s original pop appropriations.

 

The condiment sneeze guard on the bar is a reproduction of a mural in a Croatian Church by Vincent of Kastav (Vincentius de Kastua) and his workshop from 1474. The theme is basically death as a leveler portrayed through the prism of medieval class and social diversity. Albeit, a happy existential leveler which should be part of the social program of any bar. Far from a depressing self reflexive memento mori the fresco lends itself to the social heterotopia where value and meaning are put into play (they dance) and everyone has an equal seat at the table. We believe a bar should be a platform for events and situations. Contemporary spaces are often fragmented and pigeonholed into demographics. We would like to be an antidote – A place to expand our individual and collective temporal bandwidths.

 

Mathilde was the mythic larger than life Great Aunt of the founder of the bar. She is buried in Greenwood Cemetery. The “e” at the end of Mathilde is a nod to her time as an actress in Paris as well as Jacques Brel’s Mathilde (and the Scott Walker homage).

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