Lifting Your Spirits
Since 1913
Five hundred bottles deep, one-ounce pours of the rare stuff, and a back bar that's been quietly outclassing the city for one hundred and twelve years.
Five hundred bottles. One bar.
Walk into The Gator Club on any night of the week and the first thing your eye lands on isn't the stage or the brass rail — it's the wall. Over five hundred bottles, lit from behind, three rows deep. American whiskey from Kentucky's quietest distilleries. Mezcal that hasn't hit the rest of Sarasota yet. The kind of single-cask Scotch that usually lives behind glass in a Manhattan hotel bar.
New bottles arrive every week. Special orders welcome — if we don't have it, we'll do our best to get it. And because we'd rather you taste the museum than just look at it, we'll pour one-ounce measures of even our top-shelf rye, bourbon, and añejo. It is, as more than one bartender in town has admitted, the best pour deal in the city.
Package liquor's available for pickup at retail — not bar mark-up. Call ahead and we'll set the bottle aside.
What's behind the bar
A library you can drink — organized, catalogued, and dangerously accessible.
Bourbon, rye, Tennessee
Everyday dram to 25-year malts
Blanco to extra añejo
Caribbean, agricole, navy strength
London dry through botanicals
The bitter shelf
This Week at the Club
Live music five nights, karaoke twice, bingo Tuesdays, DJ upstairs on weekends. No cover before 9.
We opened the year the Titanic sank.
We poured through Prohibition, two world wars, and every condo boom downtown has thrown at us. The neon sign out front has been buzzing longer than most bars have been bars.
Reserve the second floor
Wedding receptions, fantasy football drafts, burlesque shows, birthdays that need a balcony. Professional staff, full bar, DJ booth wired and waiting.
Small eats
- Pickles
- Cheese & crackers
- Chips
Because the spirits are the meal.
See you under the neon.
No reservations needed. No dress code. Just walk in, grab a stool, and ask the bartender what's new.
