Ada C. Secret

Since 2020 in Padua, the lower floor of Laboratorio Alchemico has hosted a bar that makes pre-Prohibition cocktail mixing its strong point. Bar manager and co-founder Max Morandi sets his hand to recipes of the time – like Ford Cocktail, Bombay, and Remember the Maine – adjusting the proportion of the ingredients to suit today’s palates and tastes better. The name Ada C. Secret is a tribute to English bar lady and Hanky Panky inventor Ada Coleman, and the furnishing is a call back to the Twenties and Thirties, the inspiration for all the cocktails served here.