Experience
One night. Cocktails, a table worth lingering at, and a mystery or two to solve.
Some nights you go out for a drink. Here, you step into a story. The Cipher Lounge sits in Historic Downtown McKinney behind low light and art-deco lines, built for the kind of evening that unfolds slowly and rewards the curious. Settle in, order something you have never heard of, share a table full of small plates, and when the mood turns, disappear into a room made to be solved. Every visit is a code waiting to be cracked.
It starts in the lounge. Deep seating, warm brass, and candlelight, with a patio that opens onto the pulse of Downtown McKinney when the festivals spill into the streets. Come for one quiet drink or stay for the whole night. The room bends to the evening you are after.
Then the drinks. Eighteen signature pours, each with a name and a story of its own. Chase a Cipher Paloma with a Velvet Apparition, or test your palate against the Who’s Who bourbon tasting: a blind flight, a set of tales, and a voucher for anyone who can match each pour to its story.
Bring an appetite. Artisan boards and chilled crudo, flatbreads warm from the oven, chimichurri steak bites and scallops in cognac cream, and desserts built to keep you seated, from lemon cheesecake to Texan bread pudding under bourbon caramel. Order a spread and let the night stretch.
And then the part that makes a night here different. Two immersive escape rooms, designed with the same care as the cocktails. Gather your crew, read the room, and find your way out before the clock beats you to it. Two worlds are waiting.
Ghosted
Join our haunted historical tour and uncover the secrets hidden within The Phoenix Hotel, a chilling escape where history and the paranormal collide. What starts as a simple tour through a forgotten hotel soon takes a dark turn as unexplained events unfold around you. Strange whispers, hidden clues, and restless spirits stand between your group and the truth. But be careful, some secrets were never meant to be uncovered.
Reserve GhostedAirlock
A classified deep-space mission has gone dark, and your crew has been recruited to take over. Chosen for your intelligence, teamwork, and nerve, you are dispatched to Airlock Station after contact with the original team was suddenly lost. What awaits inside is unknown. With the station in lockdown and time running out, your mission is simple: uncover the truth, regain control, and make it back before the air and the clock run out for good.
Reserve AirlockReady to crack the code?
Reserve a table, book a room, or do both. The best nights here tend to include everything.
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