Jacks Restaurant & Lounge
2 Portola Plaza, Monterey
649-2698, www.portolahotel.com
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With its polished wood walls, floors, ceiling and bartop, entering Jacks feels like walking back through time, to an era where there was still chivalry among men, and when the world felt limitless. The Bloody Mary at Jacks tastes like an ode to that era, the kind of drink that, say, Frank Sinatra might make at his home. With a mix of tomato juice, Tabasco, Worcestershire sauce and A1 steak sauce, its flavor profile is a sort of retro-chic—classic ingredients, mixed with care.