The 50 Best Bars in North America for 2025
Mexico City’s Handshake Speakeasy took the number one slot for the second year in a row.
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How to Help Bars and Restaurants During the Coronavirus Crisis
With bar and restaurant closures across the country, here’s how you can help the hospitality industry.
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150 Bars to Visit Before You Die
This new book details the 150 bars you need to visit in your lifetime.
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The 21 Best Bars in D.C.
This is where to drink when you’re drinking in D.C.
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Discovering Tokyo’s Bar Cocktail Book
When I set out for Tokyo, I had my bars picked out. No matter that it was the largest city in the world: I’d made up my mind to spend my nights at must-visit spots like Bar High Five…
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In Search of Good Cocktails at Disney World
Walt Disney World and its surrounding resorts serve alcoholic beverages. That’s not news, and plenty has been written on the topic. But most articles act as survival guides, issuing tips for making the most of a bad situation. Because you…
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Visit Prohibition-Era Havana at Blacktail in NYC
To step into Blacktail is to step into a freeze frame of a bygone era. With its rich wood paneling, rotating brass fans, and oversize leather couches, Blacktail channels an early 20th century Havana, where Americans flocked when their rums,…
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Five Halloween Cocktails to Haunt Your Dreams
Typically, your Halloween cocktails fall into two camps: those that look the part, and those that taste good. Rarely is a drink with muddled candy corn or gummy worm garnishes something you actually want to drink. So just when you…
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The Dead Rabbit Is the Best Bar in the World
The annual list of the 50 best bars in the world was just released, and Manhattan bar, The Dead Rabbit, has taken top honors. New York and London cleaned up, with the two cities accounting for nine of the top…
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The Long Bar, Shanghai’s Oldest Watering Hole
Shanghai. When one hears of it, images of the skyline of the Pudong New District, with the orb of the Oriental Pearl Tower, the bottle opener that is the World Financial Center, and other buildings come to mind. Crowds,…
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All the Winners at the 2016 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards
The 10th Annual Spirited Awards capped off another great Tales of the Cocktail, as an impressive panel of industry experts crowned winners in categories spanning bars, bartenders, new products and cocktail writing. London and San Francisco put up particularly strong…
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Derek Brown’s Columbia Room Is Back in DC
It would be an overstatement to say that Derek Brown birthed DC’s cocktail renaissance. After all, before he burst onto the scene, there were plenty of Washington bartenders–Todd Thrasher and Gina Chersevani notable among them–doing interesting work. But when Brown…
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Scene Report: Austin Bartender Justin Lavenue
Justin Lavenue is having a good year. The talented barkeep was just named Eater Austin’s 2015 Bartender of the Year, and prior to that he was named Food & Wine’s 2015 Best New Mixologist and Bombay Sapphire’s Most Imaginative Bartender….
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Chicago’s SIP Revives the Romance of the Speakeasy
Inventive cocktails, world-class cuisine, and Prohibition-era ambiance make this an absolutely unmissable spot.
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The 21 Best Bars in San Francisco
It seems like you can’t walk two blocks in this city without tripping over an award-winning cocktail joint.
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San Antonio Cocktail Conference Showcases Talented Texas Bartenders
They often don’t get the same national attention as bars in New York and San Francisco, but Texas cities are producing some of the finest bars in America. With a talented cadre of barmen representing Austin, Dallas, Ft Worth, Houston,…
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The Belle Epoque Cocktail and a Look at Ratafia
The Belle Epoque cocktail hails from Restaurant R’evolution in New Orleans. It first caught our attention because of its utilization of a unique ingredient — ratafia. Ratafia is an infusion of a base spirit (typically brandy) with fruit. Historically, ratafia…
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Cocktailing in Austin at Weather Up
Weather Up is that rare cocktail bar with multiple locations. So after visiting one of its New York spots, we decided to pay the Texas version a visit. It being about 1,500 miles closer to our house and all. Upon…
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Cocktailing in Denver at Williams & Graham
You enter this speakeasy-style Denver cocktail bar from the street, into a dark, quiet and musty book store. The hostess slips a piece of paper through a secret compartment to the other side, and the bookcase swings open allowing the…
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Paper Plane, an Atlanta Cocktail Bar
Paper Plane, a collaboration between Victory Sandwich Bar and Paul Calvert, opened about two months ago, and is already, easily, one of the best cocktail bars in Atlanta. This is to be expected, with Paul Calvert at the helm of…
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