Bar entertainment in North America
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Koko Cocktails
This retro-cool cocktail lounge spins reggae, soul and sometimes hip-hop - a snappy place to start a pub crawl.
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Blue Martini
This chic CityPlace lounge, known to attract its share of celebs, has three full bars, an extensive martini menu and live music nightly. Dress to impress – it's required.
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Cav Wine Bar
Cav serves 40 wines by the glass (most under $10), available in flights or 2.5oz pours, in a concrete-and-metal industrial space. Tasty small plates keep your palate zinging.
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Seven Grand
It's as if hipsters invaded Mummy and Daddy's hunt club, amid the tartan-patterned carpeting and deer heads on the walls. Whiskey is the drink of choice: choose from over 100 from Scotland, Ireland and even Japan.
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Wetbar
In a vaguely industrial stretch of Midtown (near one of Atlanta's popular strip clubs) is Wetbar, a spot with a concrete bar and concrete floor that seem to match the neighborhood's urban grit. The tank-topped bartenders will take good care of you, and the sound system will rattle your teeth.
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Triple Crown
A storefront bar with adjoining black-box rooms – one with glittering chandeliers, another with a disco-ball dance floor – Triple Crown hosts DJs spinning everything from ‘60s-soul and ‘80s-pop to down-tempo funk and hip-hop. Expect an upbeat crowd of happy locals that love to dance and schmooze. Tuesdays are gay. Call ahead or check website to confirm opening times.
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Mermaid
Hermosa's pedestrian promenade, Pier Ave, is one big, loud pumping party on weeknights and all day on weekends. It's a rowdy, early-20s crowd releasing their hormones at such watering holes as Patrick Malloy's and Fat Face Fenner's Fishack , which has a handy 2nd-floor balcony for babe- and dude-watching. If you're past college age, check out the legendary Mermaid , a charmingly divey '50s flashback that serves some surprisingly good food to boot.
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Subway Inn
Booze in this part of town for this cheap? Count us in. Occupying its own world across from Bloomingdale’s, this old-geezer watering hole is a vintage cheap-booze spot that, despite the classic rock and worn red booths, harkens to long-past days when Marilyn Monroe would drop in.
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Belle Vue Room
On the 2nd floor of Disney's Boardwalk Resort, this is an excellent place for a quiet drink. It's more like a sitting room than a bar: you can relax and play a board game, listen to classic radio shows like Lone Ranger, or simply take your drink to a rocking chair on the balcony and watch the comings and goings along Disney's Boardwalk.
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Bill's Gay Nineties
Don't let the name fool you – the clientele at this bar are generally as straight as they come. It's all about the Roaring Twenties at Bill's, the decade when original owner Bill Hardy converted the ground floor of his brownstone into a speakeasy. Bill's still retains its illicit aura, in part because you have to traverse hand-carved swinging doors to reach the cavernous inner sanctum, with its high beams, low lights and numerous boxing and racing pictures. It's a great place to unwind, grab a drink and make a new friend.
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Bar Agricole
Drink your way to a history degree with well-researched cocktails: Bellamy Scotch Sour with egg whites passes the test, but Tequila Fix with lime, pineapple gum and hellfire bitters earns honors. And talk about an overachiever – for its modern wabi-sabi design with natural materials and sleek deck, Agricole won a James Beard Award for restaurant design. Bar bites here are a proper pig-out, including pork pâté with aspic fried farm egg with crispy pork belly.
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Eleven
This glam spot occupies a historic building, serves New American cuisine and offers different theme nights from Musical Mondays to high-energy dance parties; check the website for club nights.
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Smuggler's Cove
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum…or wait, make that a Dead Reckoning tawny port cocktail with Angostura bitters, Nicaraguan rum and vanilla liqueur, unless someone wants to share the flaming Scorpion Bowl? Pirates are bedeviled by choice at this shambling Barbary Coast shipwreck of a tiki bar, hidden speakeasy-style behind a tinted door. With tasting flights from a selection of 200 specialty rums and 70 historic cocktail recipes gleaned from rum-running around the world, you won't be dry-docked for long.
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Surf City Billiards & Café
For shooting stick, dartboards, big-screen TVs and darn good pub grub.
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Waterfront Bar & Grill
Beer and burgers are the orders of choice at this cheerful neighborhood bar, opened in 1933 shortly after Prohibition was outlawed.
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Bier Baron
Since changing name and ownership, the former Brickskeller serves better food and has better service, with the same dark, pubby ambience and venerable selection of bottled and draft beer (over 500 brews!).
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Double Down Saloon
You can't get more punk rock than a dive whose tangy, blood-red house drink is named 'Ass Juice' and where happy hour means everything in the bar is two bucks. (Ass Juice and a Twinkie for $5; one of Vegas' bizarrely badass bargains.) Killer jukebox, cash only.
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Abe's on Lincoln
Ditch the tourists – drink with the locals.
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Abraxas
- Miami, USA
- Entertainment › Bar
Abraxas is open, uncrowded, located in a classical deco building, serves fantastic beer from around the USA and the world, and has clientele and staff who are the friendly sort, the types who will quickly make friends with a stranger and then keep said stranger entertained and inebriated until closing time. It's tucked away in a residential area; take your traveling friends here and they'll wonder how you ever found it.
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Ale Mary's
Its name and decor pay homage to Maryland's Catholic roots, with crosses, rosaries and nun things scattered about. Aside from the kitsch factor, Ale Mary's brings in a fun festive crowd and serves satisfying food (crab cakes, tater tots, bread pudding).
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Aqua Bar
Imagine a food court where the options include a raw bar, sushi, gelato and other international delights. Add a fully stocked bar with generous tenders pouring the drinks. Now put the whole place in a gorgeous seaside setting, overlooking a little beach and beautiful harbor. Now, imagine this whole scene at sunset. That's no fantasy, that's Aqua Bar.
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B Bar
- Miami, USA
- Entertainment › Bar
This smallish basement bar, tucked under the Betsy Hotel, has two salient features. One is a crowd of the beautiful, in-the-know SoBe-tastic types you expect at South Beach nightspots. The other is an odd, low- hanging reflective ceiling, built out of a sort of wobbly material that sinks in like soft Jell-o and ripples like a stone in a pond when you touch it. It's a pretty cool thing to witness, especially when all sorts of drunk, beautiful people try to (literally) raise the roof.
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Belmont
Young hipsters mellow out with small-batch bourbon at this low-key new lounge, in a narrow 1930s-style King St storefront.
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Brick Store Pub
Beer hounds geek out on Atlanta's best beer selection, with some 17 meticulously chosen draughts (so underground, they're striking oil) and a separate Belgian beer bar upstairs. In total, nearly 200 by the bottle and a cool quotient approaching exhausting.
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Brillo Box Bar
Live music, excellent menu and a good Sunday brunch at this popular spot in Lawrenceville.
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