Earlier this year, the bar at the St. Regis Washington D.C. opened the General’s Booth, which seats one party per night and rotates its menu monthly. The General’s Booth takes it name from the hotel’s history. General John J. Pershing—the successful World War I general and one of two men in history to receive the rank of general of the armies (the other is George Washington)—made the hotel his residence during Prohibition. Flouting the law, the audacious general took to publicly pulling out his silver flask an…