Pink Pearl Restaurant

To flex their importance, the privileged flaunt what’s prohibited. When America banned the sale and consumption of alcohol in the 1920s, those rich and powerful enough to be beyond the law indulged in audacious parties celebrating not only illegal wines and spirits but the finest available foods, fashions, homes, and baubles. Picture Gatsby’s extravagant parties immortalized in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s canonical novel about the period.