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The Lady Silvia is a sweet little speakeasy located on the street level of ultrachic SOHO Lofts. It opened I think fall 2011, still few people know about it.
Enter Lady Silvia from Hoover St, near Resnick's Grocery. We always find street parking, but it looks like you can park in a flat lot across Hoover St. Upon entering, you are met with a Please No Smoking sign.
It seems to me the main customers of Silvia are the denizens of SOHO Lofts. Secondary audience, I think, is the artsy-fartsy crowd -- I heard about Silvia through my ubertrendy art cluster.
I've been only a couple of times and both times, it was relatively slow. The bar entertained near it's max capacity of twelve, but the table seating (of maybe 40 tops) had only two parties of two. I don't know if it ever gets crazy busy, but the times I've been there, it's been a mellow place to hang out and just talk either with a date or a medium-size group of friends.
The theme is kind of like The Library [bar] in NY. The longest walls are stuffed with old legal texts, encyclopedias, year books, etc, and a couple mounted flat screens. At the far end is the DJ booth, though the music isn't so loud you can't hear your party talk about the latest American Apparel ad campaign. Don't expect to find a dance crowd; this is a loungey lounge.
The high ceilings are adorned with spray paint, looking like Basquiat did the honors after being forced to take Lithium for a year.
The furnishings are very World Market Center. Gilded Rococo chairs with pops of sick neon green, acrylic chairs, curly elaborate fixtures, and the like. Unusual color combinations that seem to work.
The drinks are not that expensive. I had a $6 gin and tonic with an average pour.
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