Like most great ideas, supper clubs were a creation of necessity. They got their start in the northern Middle West of the United States, in Wisconsin and Michigan. Rural farmspeople, being rural and busy, had no easy access to entertainment or socializing. So enterprising folks established clubs at more-or-less accessible crossroads on the outskirts of a town.There, men and women from the community could get it all in one night; a few drinks, a meal they didn't have to kill or cook, and solid entertainment — a good time. A hard-earned, well-deserved evening worth cleaning up and coming out for. These weren't tony affairs; "all-you-can-eat" fish fry was popular supper club fare. Many clubs got their start as prohibition roadhouses.
While we may not serve fish fry, we are not a fancy people. We are not on the outskirts of a small town, but in the heart of Hollywood, California.
And this supper club, too, is born of necessity.
