In a secret gin-joint within Theo Chocolate Factory the incomparable Chef Nordo Lefesczki teams up with "America's Best Bartender" Murray Stenson to bring Seattle an evening of sizzling entertainment, creative food, and smoking music that harkens back to another era.
This fall, Café Nordo returns to Fremont with Sauced, one part historical tour of mixology, one part film noir thriller, shaken and served up with a dash of the surreal. Fedoras nod to the beat of original jazz tunes performed love as four of the top performers in Seattle deliver salty one-liners and perfectly-poured classic cocktails to an intimate audience. Paired with each cocktail is Chef Nordo Lefesczki's interpretation of bar food: deconstructed, reconstructed, and then deconstructed again. As per the laws of Café Nordo, only the finest local, sustainable ingredients are served, and local craft distilleries provide the booze.
With Billie Wildrick (most recently seen in Candide and On The Town at the 5th Avenue Theatre) as the bombshell lounge singer, Mark Siano ("One of Seattle's top cabaret acts" — Seattle Gay Scene) as the washed-up bar owner, Ray Tagavilla (Seattle Magazine Spotlight Award Winner) as the bartender with a secret, and Opal Peachey as the cocktail waitress on the edge, Sauced delves into the sexy, dirty, soul-baring darkness of humanity under the influence. Under the the "beguiling" (Seattle Times) spell of Annastasia Workman's original jazz score, performed live by the Café Nordo House Band, audiences sip and taste as a story of mystery and betrayal unfolds all around them.