Best Social Club In Las Vegas.

The Life Aquatic

The red-and-blue contrast makes the ultimate summer fun colors, while the sweet-and-sour magic taste is perfectly balanced. It’s the most fun way to drink an Amaretto sour variation.

First impression?
Step through the door and you're inside the estate of a particularly well-traveled eccentric—heavy woods, plush leather-wrapped bar top, luxurious booths, semi-private seating nooks, and an atrium garden that feels entirely incongruous with the strip mall reality outside. The space occupies 3,400 square feet across five distinct areas in the historic Artifice building, and each one has its own character. The vibe is 19th-century explorer club, but the crowd is very much contemporary Las Vegas.

Head downtown to Doberman Drawing Room, where they serve up some of the most unique, tasty cocktails in the city. The bar recently released a new menu inspired by the fictional worlds created by moviemaker Wes Anderson. The whimsical menu layers ingredients and technique to create one-of-a-kind sips like The Life Aquatic, Isle of Dogs, The Royal Tenenbaums and more. The bartenders walk you through why each cocktail’s flavor matches up with the movie it’s named after—it’s quite the cocktail experience.

Melon Milkis. While Doberman Drawing Room has some of the most creative cocktails in the city (the bar is helmed by world re-noowned mixologist Juyoung Kang), it also showcases delicious non-alcoholic drinks like the Melon Milkis. It’s made with rice milk, coconut, lime, honeydew and soda and is garnished with amade-in-house rice cracker dusted in shichimi togarashi.

Doberman Drawing Room, Corner Bar Management’s social club in the Arts District, will bring the spirit of the Kentucky Derby to life with “Derby at Doberman,” a lively afternoon affair featuring live music, themed cocktails, a curated culinary spread and a charitable raffle from 2 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 2. Derby-inspired attire is required, with a dress code enforced for the event. Tickets, starting at $85.91, are available on Doberman’s website.

The Doberman is one of the few (if not the only) social clubs in the Arts District, and its mix of antiques, vintage books, surreal art, and taxidermy is the perfect backdrop for Burners to reminisce about the Playa over fancy cocktails. You don’t need to be a member to visit, but members do get special perks, like guaranteed reservations or the use of a private loft with a juliet balcony so you can survey the scene from above. A central bar divides the room into separate moody dens, so it's easy to dodge your ex if you see them. If you’re hungry, you can eat charcuterie out of a hollowed book and kettle chips with onion dip and caviar, but the cocktails, like the creamy Melon Milkis, are the real stars.

The Doberman is one of the few (if not the only) social clubs in the Arts District, and its mix of antiques, vintage books, surreal art, and taxidermy is the perfect backdrop for Burners to reminisce about the Playa over fancy cocktails. You don’t need to be a member to visit, but members do get special perks, like guaranteed reservations or the use of a private loft with a juliet balcony so you can survey the scene from above. A central bar divides the room into separate moody dens, so it's easy to dodge your ex if you see them. If you’re hungry, you can eat charcuterie out of a hollowed book and kettle chips with onion dip and caviar, but the cocktails, like the creamy Melon Milkis, are the real stars.

Juyoung Kang

Partner and Head of Beverage, Doberman Drawing Room 

BIG: How did you first get started in the beverage alcohol industry? 

Juyoung Kang (JK): I started when I was 19 after answering a newspaper ad with my sister, which led to my first serving job in Philadelphia at a private members-only club. 

Doberman Drawing Room has officially opened in the Las Vegas Arts District, adding a richly layered cocktail lounge to Corner Bar Management’s portfolio. Created by nightlife visionary Ryan Doherty and award-winning mixologist Juyoung Kang, the 3,400-square-foot bar feels like stepping into the estate of an eccentric explorer—moody, maximalist, and filled with artifacts from around the world.

Next door to Fremont East, travel to the Arts District to the new kid on the block, Doberman Drawing Room for its weekly happy hour experience, Doberman Till Dusk (5-8 p.m.). Enjoy reduced pricing on specialty cocktails and an elevated stylish spin on the typical happy hour.

Doberman Drawing Room made a splash in April when it became the first cocktail bar in Vegas to offer a $3,000-per-year membership option. Of course, non-members are welcome, too. Inside the antique-filled space, which features red velvet banquettes, a wrought-iron chandelier, and a mounted deer’s head, guests can enjoy highly inventive concoctions like the Sahara, a boozy riff on horchata (made with cantaloupe, hibiscus and roasted peanuts), as well as a chili-infused Tom Kha Fizz.

If you’re looking for the cool new cocktail spot that seems more secret than known, make a reservation at the new Doberman Drawing Room in the Arts District. The vibes and décor are beautifully bougie and the cocktails are some of the best in the city, thanks to world-renowned mixologist Juyoung Kang. The cocktail-driven lounge has a whole book of specialty cocktail options, so take your time to peruse each page and get ready to take a taste journey.

At Doberman Drawing Room, a moody cocktail bar and members club that feels like an old mansion with curios from another era, famed mixologist Juyoung Kang is serving show-stopping drinks like a sweet, savory, spicy and creamy tom kha fizz and the Marilyn and Madness combo with two different Rosa vermouth cocktails side-by-side. (For a extra hit of cheekiness, see if you can find the photograph of Corner Bar Management boss Ryan Doherty in an antique cabinet.)

There’s no denying that the Arts District has become a vibrant neighborhood filled with exciting galleries, restaurants, and bars. And one of the latest newcomers to the area is Doberman Drawing Room. A project by nightlife entrepreneur Ryan Doherty (of excellent Downtown spots like the Laundry Room, Commonwealth, and Lucky Day) and award-winning mixologist Juyoung Kang (who was the opening bartender at the Laundry Room), this bar and members’ lounge is arguably one of the finest in the city.

This Doberman bites. With flavor.

Doberman Drawing Room, the downtown Las Vegas cocktail lounge meets social club, has launched a menu of bar bites and snacks to complement its inventive beverages. Look for warm tangerine and rosemary olives, Berber-spiced chicharrón and maple-candied pecans. Kettle chips are graced with ancient sea salt and served with caramelized onion dip. For a lift of luxe, add Royal Osetra caviar.

Tinned fish is accompanied by warm sourdough swiped with crushed purple chilis and French butter. A Charcuterie Library for Two showcases a hollowed vintage book. A “page” from the book is set alight, burning away to reveal a spread of fruit, cheese, meats and house preserves. On the sweet side, brown butter and Swiss chocolate chip cookies are paired with limoncello sugar.

Mixologist Juyoung Kang is upping the ante for creative cocktails in Sin City at Doberman Drawing Room, a new social club that opened in April in the downtown Las Vegas Arts District. Kang’s menu highlights globally inspired original drinks with an eye toward health and wellness and influences from the culinary world. Signature creations include the Howling Wolves, a blend of Nikka From The Barrel Japanese whisky, Lustau Amontillado Los Arcos Sherry, house-made cantaloupe cordial, and Supasawa acid mixer, garnished with Togarashi, and the Bird’s Eye View, mixing bird’s eye chili-infused, Campari, Cocchi di Torino vermouth, Liber & Co. Passionfruit syrup, and coconut water (cocktails are $16-$28). Operated by Corner Bar Management, the bar is designed to evoke a home estate.

In the burgeoning Arts District, Doberman Drawing Room, a taxidermy-adorned craft-cocktail bar, opened in May with a strong collection of drinks from mixologist Juyoung Kang. One drink, the Pillow Book, is made with vodka, nigori sake, strawberry, sumac, lemon and egg white. Another, the zero-proof Coffee Cheesecake, is a rich and creamy take on the classic espresso martini with a surprising twist: parmesan.

This mashup of cocktail lounge and social club brims with “beautiful chaos,” as owner Ryan Doherty puts it. Stuffed animal heads, stacks of vintage books, gilt-framed reproductions of paintings by Goya and Chardin, brocade-swaddled fauteuils, stained glass, putto heads in the manner of Della Robbia and more. Who collected this trove? An adventurer? An English second son for his set in Albany? The stories flow. So do superlative cocktails from Juyoung Kang, a top Vegas mixologist. Among her signature sips: a Peter Pepper martini (gin or vodka) with lemongrass shochu and a Bird’s Eye View with a bitter aperitif, vermouth, passion fruit, coconut and a singe of bird’s eye chili heat.

A martini doesn’t always mean alcohol — something mixologist Juyoung Kang at Doberman Drawing Room has embraced with flair. The Arts District’s newest hideaway offers a coffee cheesecake espresso martini that skips the liquor but delivers on flavor with a blend of malt, coffee, and honey. This mocktail is dusted with nutmeg and finished with a surprising sprinkle of Parmesan cheese for a salty, yet creamy infusion. Of course, this drink can be made boozy upon request. In between sips, check out the century-old chandelier and custom stained-glass windows. While membership comes with perks, cocktails can be enjoyed even without paying the $3,000 annual fee.