In a secret gin-joint within Theo Chocolate Factory, the incomparable Chef Nordo Lefesczki teams up with "America's Best Bartender" Murray Stenson to bring Seattle an evening of sizzling entertainment, creative food, and smoking music that harkens back to another era.

Café Nordo returns to Fremont with Sauced, one part historical tour of mixology and one part film noir thriller, shaken and served up with a dash of the surreal. Fedoras nod to the beat of original jazz tunes performed live as four of the top performers in Seattle deliver salty one-liners and perfectly-poured classic cocktails to an intimate audience.

Paired with each cocktail is Chef Nordo Lefesczki's interpretation of bar food: deconstructed, reconstructed, and then deconstructed again. As per the laws of Café Nordo, only the finest local, sustainable ingredients are served, and local craft distilleries provide the booze.

With Billie Wildrick as the bombshell lounge singer, Mark Siano as the washed-up bar owner, Ray Tagavilla as the bartender with a secret, and Opal Peachey as the cocktail waitress on the edge, Sauced delves into the sexy, dirty, soul-baring darkness of humanity under the influence. Under the "beguiling" (Seattle Times) spell of Annastasia Workman's original jazz score, performed live by the Café Nordo House Band, audiences sip and taste and eavesdrop as a story of mystery and betrayal unfolds all around them.

Nordo's house spiced nuts

Prosecco and Esprit de June liqueur

Blinis with house-made sauerkraut and beet caviar

Wodka Vokda, Red Lillet, and bitters

Dungeness crab in molded pork gelatin atop handmade noodles with impressed cilantro

St. Lucia Rums with lime, pineapple, and orgeat

Meatloaf of braised pork belly, sirloin, and chicken liver beside mashed potatoes and pea crisps

American bourbon, sugar, and citrus...as it was meant to be

The Drunken Twinkie (or Dwinkie)