Skip to content

Journal

A cocktail in a crystal coupe on the marble bar

The bar

What Kaunas drank in 1935

November 6, 2026 · Hotel Saulėja

Five cocktails from the hotel's own order books, and how we make them now.

The bar with its gilt sunburst restored

The house

The sunburst under the paint

October 12, 2026 · Hotel Saulėja

How the gilt ceiling of the bar was lost in 1950 and found again, whole, under five coats of green.