Best of Rhode Island 2008 Editors' Picks

There's something super cool about throwing a party in a former speakeasy (it kind of makes you want to spring for an open bar, doesn't it?). And the subterranean private function room at Local 121, which holds fifty-plus for a sit-down affair and up to eighty for cocktails, is no exception. Rich, dark, elegant--the meticulously restored space, with a storied past dating to the 1890s, is an instant ice-breaker.