December 1, 2006

Born to Rhum

Rhum Bar Opens

You’ve tackled the lines on Temple and outgrew Lansdowne. Come sunset, what you really want is a quiet (and, okay, cool) restaurant bar for catch-up and cocktails.

Give into it. (You also used to waste nights behind the velvet rope, not the kitchen counter.) And make your next stop Rhum Bar, Om’s new upstairs lounge in Harvard Square. It’s quiet enough for conversation but provocative enough for an unknown morning-after.

Settle in (but don’t settle down) with a drink made from one of 23 rums, like the new Agua Luca, which bar manager Clif Travers tosses into one mighty smooth caipirinha. Or try the Mexican, a rum, tequila, and honey tribute to Ernest Hemingway’s Tijuana days. The list keeps growing as Travers adds new cocktails.

After a couple, you could head down to the street level bar for momos (Tibetan dumplings) and a few signature aromatherapy martinis.

Be careful, though. You know where those usually land you.

Rhum Bar, upstairs at Om Restaurant, 92 Winthrop Street, Harvard Square (617-576-2800 or omrestaurant.com).