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An Irish pub nestled within the vaulted cellars of former salt warehouses, featuring five distinct and picturesque rooms, all united by a single purpose: to completely overwhelm visitors.

"The Secret Room" is brought to you by "Bureau of Findings," a highly productive and fearless team, and a creative collective within the Pub Life Group. The branding for the group was developed in collaboration with the Artemy Lebedev Studio.

"The Room" begins where the famous water features of the Black Swan pub end. Through a very unofficial service entrance, you'll find yourself in a series of corridors within the salt cellars, leading to a quirky, Gothic "Narnia" of a pub, complete with organ pipes, antique stained glass windows, a bell tower (a genuine, resonant bell hangs in one of the rooms), and a medieval wine cellar. This nearly 200-square-meter vaulted space, located on the picturesque outskirts of the Black Swan, features five separate rooms, all designed to completely overwhelm those who enter.

However, don't expect anything religious or even particularly traditional from "The Secret Room." The entire space, with its improvised rituals and dining attractions, is essentially an antique-alchemical adventure, complete with a pint of beer in hand. After all, as we know, the spirit and the body are inseparable.

Guests are encouraged to wander between the rooms, admiring the carefully restored 18th-century stained glass windows from the Church of St. John in Battersea, the cast iron windows from a Methodist chapel in North Wales, or an ancient tapestry depicting a bewildered lion and a bloodthirsty boar. Feel free to gaze in awe (well, what else can you do?) at the real organ pipes behind the bar, celebrate birthdays in the stone hall with century-old Villeroy and Boch porcelain, and ring the 1860 barrack bell (please, no more than once). Ultimately, enjoy the food prepared by brand chef Artem Mukhin (Bambule, Abbey Players, Hitachi, Botafogo), indulge in drinks, and watch football while sitting on velvet church pews, which retain the traditional low footrests on the back of the benches, where enthusiastic fans are encouraged to kneel and offer prayers for the victory of their favorite team. The Irish, after all, are the ones who taught the world to wholeheartedly embrace anger, love, and intoxication.

In addition to the pub's extensive selection of whiskey and draft beer, "The Secret Room" features barrels from an old distillery, containing a signature beer (traditionally, they will be opened each year on the anniversary). Soon, a "cask" – a special device for storing wine in bottles – will be added, where "The Secret Room" will begin aging young wine, to be enjoyed with all the big and small celebrations. The pub will be open daily from 6:00 PM. It's recommended to book tables in advance and allow at least a couple of hours to thoroughly explore everything.

A special request: don't miss the carved wooden canopy above the entrance (or exit, depending on when and how the guest manages to regain their composure). This cathedral canopy has hung decorously in a church above the heads of various priests for 200 years, until the church was dismantled for an unknown reason in the 1950s. Since then, it has served as a DJ booth in a pub in Kilkenny, and now it has come to serve in "The Secret Room" as a symbol of resilience and an unquenchable thirst for life.