A 1970s department store-themed cocktail lounge is set to open next week in the lower level of the former Klein Department Store in Highland Park.
The Highland Underground, which sports a retro look including vintage clothes on mannequins, is the concept of the folks at the Orvis Horatio Group, which is also behind Dough Co. Pizza, Des Moines Biergarten and Oktoberfest at Des Moines Biergarten.
Owners include brothers Alec and Evan Davis and Austin Baeth, a local doctor and state representative. The Davises and Baeth are school friends from back in the day. That connection led to the discovery that their families have a shared distant ancestor, Orvis Horatio, hence the name of their group…